Field recording occupies a liminal space between the tactile world we inhabit and the sonic canvas that musicians, filmmakers, and scholars manipulate inside studios. At its core, it is the ...

On an otherwise unremarkable autumn day in 1940, in the sleepy Delta town of Drew, Miss., 12-year-old Ora Dell Graham sang into a disc-cutting machine that recorded her voice. She recited a jump-rope ...

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The sun was high when musician Son Little arrived at Anderson Park on the campus of the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado. While looking for a shady place to capture this Field Recording, we trekked ...

For decades, Sir David Attenborough has brought us the natural world in documentaries and TV programs. He started making these shows in the 1950s, and wherever he went in the world, he recorded music, ...

The LA Phil's new-music marathon includes 12 hours of live performances and art installations in every corner of Walt Disney Concert Hall on November 16. This year's festival, curated by Pulitzer ...

If you are in the market for a professional field recording mixer you might be interested to know that IK Multimedia of this month introduced their new four input mixer in the form of the iRig Pro ...

3. Multi-track field recorders (as the name suggests, facilitating multi-channel recording of 8 or even more tracks simultaneously) 4. Automated field recording systems Pocket-size recorders such as ...

Host Ari Shapiro speaks to the natural historian Sir David Attenborough, who began making documentaries and TV programs in the 1950s. Wherever he went in the world, he also recorded music. Dozens of ...