This is the second part of a two-part series (so far) on recording nature. The first part dealt with some common technology used to record the sounds of nature. This part highlights some recordists, most of whom I have met (and some I know well), who work in this area. The idea of doing this…
RECORDING NATURE – PART 1
This post is in response to an email I received recently. A reader of this site had seen a television feature about the nature sound recordist Gordon Hempton and thought it would make for a good blog post. Actually I have met any number of nature sound recordists, including Mr. Hempton, so I think it…
AZORIAN REPORT
(Sunset in the Azores) This is a brief summary of the symposium, Invisible Places, held in April at the University of the Azores in Ponta Delgada on Sao Miguel island in the Azores. Your Audio Penguin, Eric Somers, did a presentation there. The entire conference proceedings will be posted sometime in June and I will…
SPRING CONFERENCES
There some interesting conferences this spring for people interested in exploring some of the lesser known aspects of sound. In this post I will describe three of them. I expect to attend at least two of them, maybe all three. I am presenting a paper at Invisible Places. Full disclosure also requires me to say…
PODCAST 1: STORIES IN SOUND
In this post I want to talk about a huge growth area in the field of audio: podcasts. This is a huge topic so I will start with what will ultimately become a series of articles. Podcasts can, in a sense, be considered a new kind of radio. Before the introduction of television people would…