Field Recording
All records with field recording · Solo field recording only
A Landform Embodies a Mythical Creature
Sixteen audio scenes answering the long-exposure photographs of Brice Bischoff: cassette recordings of canyons, caves and ravines, reshaped in the studio with film-style spatial effects. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi.
Music For Solo Percussion And Electronics
First reissue of the Norwegian percussionist's debut, recorded in 1981 at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter: vibraphone, marimba, bells and synths over environmental recordings, between Midori Takada and Fourth World.
Music For Two Films About Water
Liz Harris, aka Grouper, collects two scores for short films about water by Tanja Engelberts and Takashi Makino: two long pieces of Mellotron, tape loops, Wurlitzer and field recordings. On Kranky.
Squall Line
Brian Pyle and Merrick McKinlay's Humboldt County duo returns to Discrepant with seven ritual pieces of voices, violins, flutes, synths, drums, bells and field recordings: end-time visions for the unquiet spirit.
NAD
French-Moroccan singer Basma Otmani sings in Darija over Temir Alcy's mix of ambient, leftfield and experimental folk: eleven songs on grief, a broken love and a slow return to light. Released by Stroom.
Corps Perdu
Ten pieces built around Aimé Césaire's 1950 poetry collection Corps Perdu: processed hand-played melodies, field recordings and static, a companion to Works in Metal.
Meliponica
Experimental electronic music made entirely from processed recordings of Brazilian stingless bees, by the artist and researcher João Machado, whose bee recordings are held by the British Library.
Miraggi
Argento is David August's new project: an imagined soundtrack to the Tyrrhenian coast, synthesizers and field recordings with Lorenzo Setti on drums and percussion, in the wake of Italian library music.
Te Oro o te Ao
New Zealand sound artist Rachel Shearer listens to the Earth through Māori and Western practice: field recordings, electronics and voice on her first full album, a deluxe 45 RPM gatefold from Thin Wrist.
Soulignement_
Adrian Moore’s works from 2019 to 2024: five wt_ pieces each built from one source (a ceramic pot, a bird whistle, a wine glass, metal sheets, voices) with the same Pure Data toolkit, plus two Sheffield-area site pieces on industrial noise and change. CD-R.
Espaces Lointains
Six works by John Young from 2017 to 2023, from New York subway preachers and Oberlin crickets to Mahler’s composing hut and a setting of Simon Perril’s poem after Lévi-Strauss, including the Klang ! and Akousmatique prize winners. CD-R.
Anima Pepsi + The Days Pass Quickly (2LP Bundle)
The two new Blume LPs together: David Tudor's Anima Pepsi, composed for the Pepsi Pavilion at Expo '70, and Lea Bertucci's The Days Pass Quickly Immersed in the Shadow of Eternity, written for Norbert Rodenkirchen's flutes.
X3 / Phonophani - Until the Fish Eyes Shine
Split LP in the Portraits GRM series: Amina Hocine blends sine waves, field recordings and her own foghorn organ in X3, while Espen Sommer Eide revisits his Phonophani years and the Tromsø ambient techno scene of the late 1990s.
Anima Pepsi
Two pieces David Tudor composed in 1970 for the Pepsi-Cola Pavilion at Expo '70 in Osaka, built by E.A.T.: Pepsibird, from tapes of human and animal brain waves, and Anima Pepsi, from insect and animal field recordings.
Post Dub Cities
Ten tracks of dark, slow-motion dub by Ravenna photographer and field recordist Adriano Zanni, built from delays, reverb and recordings of abandoned places, from Pripyat to Craco. Limited grey vinyl on Bronson Recordings.
Moho Abyss
Maurizio Bianchi with P.U.M.A. (Luca Valisi and Monica Calanni Rindina): ten pieces of drones, synths, field recordings and voice titled after THX 1138, Eraserhead, Stalker and other dystopian films. CDr, 100 copies.
Abhaile
Compositions by Finola Merivale for field recordings and electronics, with Catherine Sikora's tenor saxophone moving through shifting sonic environments between stark minimalism and dense, evocative layers.
Prisoner's Cinema
Second duo LP by Sarah Hennies and Tristan Kasten-Krause: two sidelong pieces grown from a live work played in darkness, singing bowls, gongs and double bass drifting into waltz-like pulses and field recordings. Numbered edition of 200.
Sembrar y Escuchar
Graciela Carnevale's Pieza Blanca (1968), an empty white room with an amplified heartbeat, remade in 2025 with her own heart, and a sound work from her gardening project La Huerta in Rosario. Record #07 of Ediciones Inauditas with n.b.k.