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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 ...

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 ...

Since 2014, hundreds of artists have been making field recordings, transforming them into new sounds, and sending both files to the online project Cities and Memory. Cities and Memory’s global sound ...

Ambient music can feel left-field and unfamiliar. It often abandons the tropes people use to define music in the first place—beats, hooks, vocals, or even a time signature (though to make it more ...

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 ...

This stunning, tree-lined sidewalk at the edge of the Aspen Ideas Festival campus was the perfect location for this Field Recording. While it looked great, it was quiet for a very short time. Before ...

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 ...