Franciso Lopez’s annual 2-week workshop in the Amazon offers field recordists an amazing opportunity to both explore the rainforest, and collaborate, learn, and create with a community of peers.  In recent years, the economic stresses we all feel have made it more difficult for sound artists to raise the funds for this unique experience.
This year, [...]

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A small film crew followed Stephen Vitiello, and American sound artist, on a recording trip along the coast of Australia, and produced a great little film about the experience.  Here’s a link to it on the ABC Artscape show website.
And here it is, hopefully working seamlessly, as an embed:

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The Washington Post ran an article this week on the “secret jazz” of escalators that descend into the DC Metro system.  A popup multimedia window lets us listen in to the very different sonorities of five metro station escalators, and a related page from the Post’s music staff invites readers to download the clips and [...]

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