Field Recordings

“Made on the tidal beach on the river Thames watching people mudlarking just under Waterloo bridge… trains pulling into Waterloo station above and simultaneously waves lapping below… Towards the end […]

“Cadogan Pier, North Bank of the river Thames, beneath Albert Bridge near Chelsea Embankment.  Built in 1841 Cadogan Pier has been Chelsea’s only river transport link for over 150 years […]

“Hundreds of people gather to demonstrate outside the Houses of Parliament whilst MPs hold the second reading of the ‘Illegal Migration Bill’, a piece of legislation that denies asylum to […]

“Myself and my co-editor (at The Sonification) went to cover a story about a mining company that has permits to start an open pit project in a rural area about […]

“A soundscape recorded on December 27, 2022 at around 10 a.m. in Bacău. It immortalises ‘Alaiul datinilor’ 56th edition, a special day when people from all over the Moldova region come to […]

“I was fascinated by these sounding stairs on the entrance / exit of a park in Kaunas, Lithuania. I heard the sound from afar, and thought it was in my head until […]

“I was way up in a crows nest style ‘box’ at the back of the mezzanine in the Princess Theatre for Aldous Harding’s concert. I recorded the crowd trying to […]

“A really windy night in the days just before Halloween swept what was left from the old silver maple trees in the neighbourhood. As the final few fell to earth, […]

“I went to Brianna Ghey’s vigil last night outside the Department of Education. It was a very emotional and affecting time, with people standing together holding candles and lighters, whilst […]

“Plymouth Nighttime — Recorded August 31, 2022 in Plymouth, MA. We were staying at a house on a bluff overlooking Cape Cod Bay. At night you could see the lights […]

“On January 7th I went to an unusual Orthodox Christmas service at the Catholic Church of St. Johns in Vilnius where the service was led by a chaplain father Heorhiy Kovalenko visiting […]

“The February full moon had just come up and I was on a stunning Saturday afternoon walk around sunset, the sky was a beautiful red. I stopped by the Tammisalo […]

“It gets really dark in Eskdalemuir. In winter it is sometimes so dark and foggy that you can literally see nothing. Once or twice a winter I step out my […]

“Walking down the street and a shitload of crows tipped up. #crowzone”

“We had walked into Peterborough Cathedral at lunchtime on 24th October 2022 and it took us a while to work out that the sound we were listening to was two […]

“Geese pad softly over the top of a snowy hill (while I walk heavy-footed behind them).”

A slow weave of some of the past year’s Field Recordings, from a clock repair shop in January to snow falling in December. Clock repair shop, London, UK on Saturday […]

“The snow is not as gleaming and beautiful as on the first day but the CRUNCH underfoot is at its peak!”

“Listening to the snow fall on the surface of the water as I walk home. The white blanket underfoot softening the sound of the city.”

“There are three churches within earshot of the spot where this recording was made, in the Swiss village of Flüeli-Ranft, and their bells overlap but do not synchronise. A local […]

“A traditional Ukrainian Koliada song – traditionally sung house to house, like a Christmas carol.  This group of Montreal Koliada singers rehearsing for the Christmas season was founded by Natalia Telentso […]

“We keep a beehive, just the one in our back garden in Flitwick, Bedfordshire. we are about as far from any coast that you can get in the country, to my eternal […]

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“After 4 hours of walking in the forest, some friends and I reached Cajón del Azul where the ice-cold waters of Azul River have carved deep into the stone over […]

“An enclosure with about a dozen captive pigeons in a park who are fluffing their feathers and flying around with sticks.” Recorded for the Here Be Monsters episode 153: Klänge […]

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“I was sitting outside listening to the katydids and the moon.”

“I love the randomness they produce and the contrast with the surround and distant car traffic… I recorded it with my zoomh6 – X/Y capsules.” immersedinsounds.wordpress.com

“This one was recorded in my garden in Münster, Germany with a Zoom H1N. 3 times a year there is a huge folk festival called ‘Send’ going on right next […]

“I would like to share with you a field recording from my garden in NW London. It features this garden furniture cover and raindrops tap dancing on it during a […]

“St Paul’s cathedral bells ring for the state funeral on 19th September 2022.  A binaural recording made using a matched pair of DPA 4060 microphones. Please use headphones for the […]

“I recorded the attached audio file on Sunday, October 16, at Hogpen Hill Farm in Litchfield County, Connecticut. Hogpen Hill is a 234-acre tree farm + landscape sculpture park in the mountains […]

“I live close to a Chabad-Lubavitch in Brooklyn. Last night, the community was celebrating Sukkot, and I could hear peals of celebration a few blocks away from my bedroom window.” […]

“A 300 acre farm in Ewingar NSW. The dusk chorus you can hear from the porch”

“I recorded this while reporting a story on an urban farm that’s being turned into a community green space.”  andrealaurion.com

“As a republican I probably shouldn’t have enjoyed this as much as I did – the bells in the village church were being rung this morning with muffled clappers so […]

“The sound of a distant night train reaches out to us over the barking dogs and the wind chimes at my parents’ house”

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“Binaural recording using DPA 4060 matched pair & Sound Devices Mix Pre 3ii”

“I was recently given the gift of time and space, to blow at my own discretion, in Lydd on Sea, on the edge of Dungeness. I’ve visited half a dozen […]

“When it’s the hottest day ever recorded in the UK (40.2c) and you live in a small metal box, there’s only one thing to do and that’s go to the […]

“4 mins of a rural village garden, 29.7 degrees at gone 8pm on the day we broke 40, in the UK’s most water-stressed and lowest-rainfall region, featuring a greenfinch, collared […]

“It was a blazingly hot afternoon and the sunshine on the pondweed in the moat was generating bubbles that were popping all around as I sat in a “Watergate” at […]

“The patches of trees create small shaded havens for wildlife, but they don’t completely obstruct the soundscape as ancient rainforests will do. You can hear birdsong and insect calls from […]

“Swam out to watch the sun come up across the water. Bats overhead and roosters crowing in the distance.”

“The main goal of my trip to Lorraine in the east of France was to record Common Midwife Toads. The location was an old disused quarry just outside Lérouville and […]

“Most of the BWCA is only accessible by canoe —no motors are allowed — making it a quiet place. I like this recording because there are so many things happening […]

“Stayed overnight in Camber Sands, East Sussex. Was hoping to go for a morning swim in the sea, but was so cold the best we could manage was paddle in the shallows […]

“This is the sound of the cove before I swam out to the rock and jumped in, it was completely deserted and about 8am in the morning. I wanted to […]

“Bells on the weekend coming from the church. They give way eventually to birdsong.” Recorded for the Here Be Monsters episode 153: Klänge from Berlin https://www.hbmpodcast.com/podcast/hbm153-klange-from-berlin

“I’ve got a new field recording for you. It’s of Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn. Quite an electric afternoon for being in the middle of the week. I went there […]

“Alive with the sound of ducks, ewes & lambs, wood pigeons, a distant lawnmower & surprise appearance from light aircraft passing directly overhead (passing from right to left). Bliss!”

“My parents have sold their previous house and now temporarily live in a small apartment within the sort of hangar where the trucks and machines of my dad’s company are […]

“I just sent you a recording from a lovely little glade in the forests above Ambleside, which was covered in bluebells, and loads of pesky bumblebees feeding off them. Also sat […]

“Was out for an evening run off Lake Michigan, and i was quite literally stopped mid-stride by this deafening cacophony of spring peepers and the lot.”

“I walked along Canale Street with Damián, we talked about what life is like in José Mármol while we enjoyed the rich sound and visual landscape, more than anything the […]

“This was part of the Lycean way we did and this recording was made just beyond a town called Kaş. We thought we had reached the middle of nowhere when this […]

“I recorded this at dawn, at the edge of a vast forest on the north-west bank of Loch Laidon on Rannoch Moor, on a dry and bright but blustery Spring […]

“Here is a recording I made of the spring dawn chorus in the Tanneron Ridges, about 5km inland from the Mediterranean Sea in the south of France. The Forêt Du Grand Duc […]

“Lambs and their mothers. Pheasants shouting and roosting. Other, nicer sounding birds, doing their things. The steady sound of the river at the bottom of the valley. An annoying aeroplane. […]

“Standing by the lake in the dark.”

“It’s recorded down the coast at a place called Ironbark Gorge early on a sunny Sunday in February this year. Lots of tall eucalypts and tree ferns and sweet tiny finches. Anouk […]

“Put on your headphones to hear a binaural recording of trains arriving at the platform in front of me and the one behind. Hear announcements, people walking by and a couple […]

“Hours before the storm breaks, watching iguanas sunbathe on the gravestones in the cemetery.”

“The recording is of South Fork Creek in Pennsylvania, which runs through the site of the Johnstown Flood of 1889. The creek used to be the source of a reservoir […]

“Hidden amidst the greenery, by the side of a busy beach in Key West – hens, tiny newborn chicks and a couple of roosters shade from the morning sunlight. The […]

“Last summer a group of parakeets, very popular birds in Argentina -species: Myiopsitta monachus, known as monk parakeet in English, cotorras here-, began to nest in the square in front of my house. And what a […]

“Here are some woodpeckers in a stand of trees by the Thame  – it’s 11 minutes, but it’s worth listening for the birds hammering on different instruments.”

“The growing morning birdsong of early spring on the green outskirts of Oxford, England, 23rd February 2022.”

“On a recent trip to Yellowstone i spent a few days recording many of the park’s geysers with LOM Uši Pro and Geofón”

“I’d been walking for hours. It started off as a fun hike with fine views of the Atlantic Ocean from the Sheep’s Head Peninsula in County Cork, Ireland. But 5 hours in, […]

“People gather on 5th of November in Meersbrook Park to watch the fireworks over Sheffield. From the top of the park you can see across the city to the hills […]

“This soundscape was recorded at Corno do Bico, a small natural reserve of fauna and flora, located in Paredes de Coura, Portugal. In this recording, made at around 7pm on […]

“Twenty minutes in our garden in County Clare, just before dawn in mid-February, 2022. There are rooks, tits, pigeons, robins, wrens and the star of the show, a blackbird. There’s also […]

“I recorded this in my garden in the countryside of Co. Cavan using a pair of Rode NT55’s. It was quite a mild day for mid-November and the birds were […]

“I made this yesterday, standing with my sister in the park behind our childhood home, 40 years after we moved out. It’s the height of summer in Brisbane, hot and […]

“I work in a clock shop in London where we service antique and vintage clocks. This is recorded from my bench on a quiet Saturday morning, there are sounds of […]

“The Orthodox Church in Russia celebrates Christmas on January 7, and this is the day when the most powerful of church bells ring. This one, I believe, is the 72-ton […]

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“Visiting friends in west Wales. Went for a frosty walk at dawn with their ten-month old puppy Lyra. The river in the distance is Afon Brynberian.”

“Left the warmth of the wood stove to check out the dusk post ice storm. Icicles dropped from trees, trees dripped with water. Pushed shimmering sheets of ice off of porch railings, […]

“On a recent trip to Yellowstone i spent a few days recording many of the parks geysers with LOM Uši Pro and Geofón.”

“I was standing about 20 feet away from the Fort Amherst Foghorn, next to a flagpole, this past November, a day with a wild sea. The foghorn sits near a […]

“This is the first snow storm of the season, myriad tiny crystals of ice flying in all directions, and many of those houses will get lost in the snow tomorrow, […]

“I spent most of my childhood living in Coggeshall. It’s a small (very old) town in the Essex countryside. Now that my family has moved away, I haven’t been back […]

“I’d wanted to hear this sound again for years. On an autumnal day, nearly a decade ago, it had caught me by surprise – reverberating off the surrounding buildings, filling […]

“Sometimes I feel like the A road equivalent of a curtain twitcher as I often hear something unexpected happening outside my flat and rush to look out. This sound was […]

“I had around an hour’s time in Cushendun, a small village just off the Antrim coast road. There was nobody in the streets and the pub was closed. This recording […]

“It’s a rainy day and i’m messing around outside the house with my hydrophone… popped it in one of the little copper rain basins out front and WOAH! the bass […]

“On July 15, 2018, France beat Croatia in the 2018 FIFA World Cup Final. Just moments after the game ended the city of Paris erupted in celebration. This short recording was made […]

“Beech Forest seems entirely silent until I stand still. I’m at the edge of Blackwater Pond, surrounded by bare winter trees, when I start to hear the wingbeats overhead. Tiny […]

“I went out at lunchtime hoping to see and hear some of the skylarks that gather in flocks in the fields round here.  There were perhaps 50 or 60 circling […]

“I have a field recording from Vilnius central prospect, Gedimino prospektas, which on the weekend becomes a pedestrian-only street. It was the last weekend, Saturday evening, people are going to see […]

A slow weave of the past year’s Field Recordings, from sunset on the last day of 2020 to a gathering storm in Iceland at the end of 2021. Sunset on […]

“Nazaré is an old fishing village, nowadays bustling with tourism. It is also known for its big waves, becoming a world-famous surfing location.  In this binaural recording we hear the […]

“We stopped on a little wooden bridge, passing over a river, whilst hiking through the Black Forest in Germany on Sunday 28 November. Pay close attention just before the 2 minute […]

“Birds, bugs, breeze, bushes, Box-Ironbark.”

“Recorded on a very windy and foggy morning on winter solstice, shortly after sunrise, en route to Bronkham hill. Whilst walking along the ridge, dotted with Burial Mounds and Barrows, […]

“A recording that I captured in Stykkishólmur, a beautiful tiny fishing village. There was a storm brewing so after dinner I went out and hunkered down in the grass for […]

“I was with some friends on a quiet woodland walk in Castle Cary, when we noticed a drone appear from the soundscape, gradually getting louder and closer. It turned out […]

“I went downstream of the village at dusk. It was very still, owl and jackdaw conversations echoing around the valley as they roosted. At one point a group of jackdaws […]

“It’s mid-March and spring is starting to poke it’s ears out on the prairie. It’s hard to believe that a week ago, this was a silent sheet of white snow. […]

“I had met Ozzy and his double bass earlier on that day to play some music in the park. There was some kind of tree surgery going on on an industrial […]

“Walking over the same small stretch of ground I’d covered every day during the UK lockdowns, I heard music coming from a small hidden copse beside the railway line. One […]

“Union Station is Chicago’s main regional rail station, and the echoes in the “great hall” are very very long. I guess those huge Christmas trees need metal armatures inside to […]

“Whilst relaxing one evening at my lodge in the heart of Queen Elizabeth National Park, a sudden storm brought heavy rain and ended days of drought. As soon as the […]

“Hippos spend a lot of time frolicking at water holes in the savanna. Every now and then they will move around or utter a call that sounds a lot like […]

“I’ve always had a sort of love affair with windows. The life they let in, the life they let out. I exist by them in the day. A day is […]

“I went outside and at one moment found what looked like 100 little black dots making a racket in a tree. I hung out until all but a few were […]

“Doggy Splash is the one day every year dogs can play in the Streatham Common paddling pool in South London before it’s drained for the winter. I have never seen […]

“I brought my LOM Geofon and hyrdrophone out to the Oregon coast and spent some time at short sand beach in Oswald West State Park (one of the most beautiful […]

“We’re at the mercy of the Atlantic ocean and catch all the weather that has gathered between here and America. This means rain, wind and more rain. This was recorded […]

“I was in the Adirondack mountains paddling my kayak with my recorder and came across a loon and it’s young. The wheezing in the beginning is the young loon breathing. It was […]

“Recorded only recently after the last lockdown ended on a baking hot summer’s day at Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire, crouching behind the cow parsley with flies buzzing lazily around me. Listening […]

“There are many different private bus companies operating in Malaysia, each offering slightly different routes, destinations, comfort and price. Competition between these companies is high and the right sales technique […]

“Walking around the cathedral as the light fades, the bells reverberating off the surrounding buildings.”

“Walk up a gravel path to a waterfall via a lot of people taking goofy photos of themselves.”

“Birds and wildlife abound in the mountain forest in the middle of a summer afternoon. Don’t miss the fun visitor in the final seconds!”

“A rare reunion with my brother and sister on the edge of the heath provided a chance to listen to the slightly other-worldly churring of nightjars at around midnight. We only […]

“Bildudalur is home to the Icelandic Sea Monster Museum so listen carefully for signs of life deep beneath the waves.”

“I sat for a little while under a tree near the edge of the water, listening to the cicadas and the droning sound of a docked cargo ship. At times […]

“I went home to the island for the first time in 15 months in June, and before I saw my family I had to isolate for a bit on my […]

“Standing with the Abortion Rights protest as the ‘March for Life’ streams round the corner of the square. In the week that that the American Supreme Court voted 5-4 to […]

“This is the recording I made from my hotel room in the heart of Berlin, Mitte (Brunnenstrasse). Here is an example of how this city sounds at night. It never […]

“A summer thunderstorm quickly rolls in and out of the city. Recorded from a balcony overlooking a small alley.”

“As we moved deeper into the fjord towards the glacier, the sea formed a thin layer of ice, and as the ship surged forward, its bow wave lifted and snapped […]

“I sat down next to a tall tree that was heaving with twittering birds. Turns out they are monk parakeets. The noise sounds like modular synths bubbling away at times, which is […]

“In the midst of fighting off the boredom due to the pandemic, waking up early has given me a new strength to get through the day. That early morning, I […]

“The sound of bugs in the hills above Prato, Italy, on the hottest day of the summer, 2018. Recorded with a Sony PCM D-100.”

“Stealing a quiet moment in the middle of the city.”

“It’s my last evening in Lisbon. There’s a squat out of the window, over on the next roof – they do wee jam seasons so I just stuck the recorder […]

“I’m visiting my parents in LA for the first time in 2 years, and heard this wild sound coming from the tree in their front yard. When I went out […]

“A binaural field recording of a thunderstorm experienced from the shelter of a small Spinney in North London on 12th July 2021. The storm caused intense flooding across London. Recorded […]

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“After an almighty summer thunderstorm in the desert, the toads emerged from their burrows to sing in the mud.”

“During a G8 meeting in July 2001, outside the golden cage of the city center where the most powerful men in the world gathered to decide the future of the […]

“An uphill walk on a rocky gravel path on the Eastern Alps usually results in one step ahead and two steps back. The rocks are sometimes the size of a […]

“A few weeks ago, my five-year-old daughter spotted two pieces of straw poking through an air vent in our bathroom. She didn’t think much of it until we heard the […]

“I wanted to share with you a recent recording I captured whilst on location searching for interesting Ocean Cave and Rock Pool sounds in Wales. I thought this recording in particular […]

“This was recorded New Year’s eve of 2013, in the outskirts of Death Valley, near a town called Tecopa. I have never met with such loneliness on terra firma.” www.theworldaccordingtosound.org

“This field is where I spent P.E lessons and sports days as a child, it belongs to Harborne Cricket Club. To my shame, I don’t know anything about cricket. I […]

“This transit began on Monday, May 24, when the recorder, a Tascam DR-07x, was put in the mail from Bloomington, Indiana, to Beverly Shores, Indiana. The recorder was apparently accidentally […]

Recorded in the woodlands at the edge of the marshes as the dawn breaks.

“An unexpected spring afternoon thunderstorm heading towards the Chilterns, recorded from a first floor window of our house. All the usual features are here: the steady rumble of a passing […]

“In the Congo basin rainforest, you can feel a thunderstorm long before it makes contact. Thunder booms in the distance and the insect chorus sounds a bit more tense as […]

“This was recorded on some farm and conservation land in Cambridgeshire. I have been recording and writing poems outside by this tree and in a nearby rookery through four seasons, […]

“A drop in temperature causes a frozen lake to sing through the winter night. The piece starts underneath the ice, recording laser-like sounds with a hydrophone. At 2:15 it transitions […]

“I recorded this early morning soundtrack during my short holiday in Kopalino – a small village by the Baltic Sea. The birds in the lakeside forest sang along to my […]

“I’m sending a recording that I took on 21st March after a day shift. I’m standing outside Lewisham hospital near the medical oxygen canisters. I work as a midwife on […]

“Praia Fluvial do Taboão is an idyllic setting for a walk by the river and one of the most beautiful landscapes of Northern Portugal. In the summer it holds one of […]

“It’s autumn in the Blue Mountains in Australia. For many, this is the time to pick mushrooms in the planted pine forests. I was walking through a pine forest in […]

“I recorded this a couple weeks ago on a beautiful Sunday morning while sitting on our patio. Finches, a wren and coffee.” www.capturedsound.com

“A dawn raid in Glasgow’s Southside led to a day-long stand-off between immigration officials, police and local residents. Throughout the day chants of ‘refugees are welcome here’, ‘the Home Office […]

“The microphone and I stood in a small field near the geographical centre of the city as a rainstorm abates.”

“It was Sunday afternoon, I had to be out to gather some foley for a project, it was wet and miserable, but while I was out I ended up with […]

“The ice layer thickened up in some parts of the fjord and as the ship’s bow ploughed through it, the clamour of ice against steel grew louder. Fragments were propelled […]

“In a sleepy village in rural Suffolk, UK, the church bell rings at dusk to mark the death of HRH The Duke of Edinburgh earlier in the day. It’s answered […]

“On the edge of the green campus of the University of East Anglia, the Sainsbury Centre is made up of an engineered steel space frame, clad in brilliant white panels […]

“At 48 km2, the Lac du Der is the largest artificial lake in Europe, built in 1974 to regulate the river Marne and help protect Paris from flooding. The lake […]

“This park is a favorite of mine, but I’m often there around midday when the animal life is pretty mellow. I got a tip from a friend that the spring […]

“This was taken on our early morning dog walk, usually its difficult to get a decent recording as our Shar Pei Juno starts whimpering and grumbling as soon as you […]

“I am vulnerable and have been shielding, so I got a text from the government telling me I could open my windows but not put out my bins. After two […]

“This recording is from my local skate park where my soon-to-be 12 year old son likes to go. During the lockdown we had here, he’d take himself down there most […]

“It’s early morning at a dry riverbed in the Borneo rainforest. The soundscape is thick and piercing but not too busy. Gentle fog drip creates a subtle drawn-out rhythm while […]

“Escaping the pandemic with a slow, foggy paddle.” www.capturedsound.com

Recorded using a stereo pair of contact mics. You hear the plant being watered, the moments that follow and the light heartbeat of bass from my flatmate’s room below.

Protest organised by Sisters Uncut outside the Houses of Parliament as the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts bill passes its second reading by 359 votes for to 263 against. The […]

“More than 5000 women and allies gathered at Melbourne’s Treasury Gardens on Monday 15th March as part of a national day of demonstrations around Australia demanding action to end gendered violence. […]

“This recording of thunder and rain was made in Boungingi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, in 1994, by musicologist Louis Sarno (born in Newark, New Jersey, 1954), who lived in […]

“At the end of a long lockdown week, my husband, dog and I collapsed on the bed and dozed for a while. Morris, a Clumber spaniel who takes sleep very […]

“Ilha de Armona is one of five barrier islands in the Ria Formosa that protect the Eastern Algarve from the full force of the Atlantic. I have been living here […]

“This was recorded on a farm outside the mountain town of Jayuya in Puerto Rico. It was early evening and the coquí frogs were buzzing.”

“Here’s a recording from a few weeks ago. It’s taken on the banks of the Salmon Falls River (a tidal river) which forms the border between Maine and New Hampshire. […]

“A lone blackbird singing on the TV aerial, on the roof next door, at dusk. I had no idea they did mash-ups of their own song. Tiny, sonic motifs switched […]

“Some barges on the Rhine, recorded around 4:00 in the morning, February 2018. Recorded with a Sony PCM D-100 in XY mode. The photo is from Cologne, but the recording […]

“Recorded just after dark in a muddy wood, a day after solstice on the outskirts of Halesworth, Suffolk in December 2020. An awe-inspiring spectacle of thousands of corvids, mainly rooks […]

“My wife and I took a ride along Lake Ontario today and I was able to get a short recording of the waves crashing the frozen shore. I would’ve liked to have […]

“We drove a little way out of the city to buy logs and stopped at a nice wood called Goblin Combe for a walk. It was so cold I put […]

“My favorite place in my house, at least sonically, is the fireplace. Its chimney was constructed in such a way as to pull sounds from the outside with both a […]

“About 60 people all walking/meditating/praying silently through our labyrinth, lit up with the full moon and small tea lights. The path is made of crushed shells so the crunch of […]

“A cold and windy day in the yard with my dogs.” www.capturedsound.com

“On top of Primrose Hill in Tier 4 London. Two puppies are playing. People move and talk. A saxophone track is played on a boom box. The hill is animated.”

“The area was struck by massive bushfires in January 2020. Its starting to grow back in that amazing way that bushland does. There are still swathes of burnt bush, mainly […]

“It was such a resonant, hollow sound, I started to hear it even before I reached the street corner. I sometimes forget that there’s this whole underground world of urban infrastructure […]

“Here is a field recording from me. From what really is a field, a sometime-grass, sometime-dirt, drought-depending foreshore in a small seaside town not far from here. Though one that becomes something else after […]

“Waves, cars and metro.”

“I recorded this one morning last week at high tide, underneath the cliffs on the edge of the Newhaven port, just beyond where ferries to and from France arrive and […]

“An outgoing middle-sized passenger liner trying to unmoor at the town of Myshkin on the River Volga.”

“A dawn chorus of birds I recorded during Murmurations, a field recording retreat in Scotland in 2019 hosted by Jez Riley French and Chris Watson. Halfway through you hear a […]

“On the day after Christmas, I spent the afternoon walking along the lakefront in Chicago. As the winter sun went down, I stopped to witness the last hour of daylight […]

“This jungle of activity was recorded with hydrophones dropped into the River Waveney on the Suffolk/Norfolk border, on a very sunny day in May 2020.” www.actionpyramid.com  www.instagram.com/actionpyramid

“The tall lamp posts oscillate in the wind on this exposed bit of industrial coast, making the cables inside move rhythmically against the metal.” www.thesimonsound.bandcamp.com

“One morning, during a visit to Dorset, I awoke to the sound of birds outside my window. I hadn’t left the city all year and don’t normally have much greenery […]

“Night thunderstorms can be both unsettling and relaxing, especially when heard from an old and tall stone house surrounded by the woods. Surely, the 11 o’clock bell towers’ voice echoing […]

Walking up the best local hill for sledding, the snow still falling.

“Living in the middle of a concrete, urban environment the news of another lockdown was bleak. I went at dawn on the first day to find stillness and a bit […]

“The thunderstorm that ended in tragedy for the city: lost homes and a washed away zoo that released its animals into the streets (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/08/the-tragedy-of-tbilisi-zoo-what-happened-next-georgian-capital)”

“Some confused chickadees who think it’s spring for you.” www.jessshane.com

“You can climb the hills around the river with spectacular views, storks flying in formation underneath. There’s also a series of pagoda temples embedded in the hills nearby.” www.fairly.media

“I stood on my roof overlooking the city this morning.” www.jjaacckkii.com

“The story I’ve heard (but not been able to confirm) about the naming of the region is that the name comes from French settlers who heard the indigenous people calling […]

“Sound from a limestone beach on Washington Island in Wisconsin. The stones on the shoreline have fallen from nearby cliffs and been polished over hundreds of years. On a windy […]

“I recorded these tundra swans at sunset on the day after Christmas. Every year, they stop over in Madison, Wisconsin, on their way to the Chesapeake Bay. Usually my family […]

“I was prepping a fire in our log burner on a cold, blustery day here in Devoran, Cornwall and the wind whistling through the vents was really creepy! So I […]

“I sat at this beach on a cool spring day with my ten-month-old daughter who makes a couple of cameo gurgles. It’s steady surf sound punctuated by some beautiful birdsong, including […]

“The only time I can rest my head before bedtime (7.30am)” www.stancepodcast.com

“Groups of Iberian Wolves in Portugal howl into the nights of Autumn in Mafra, Portugal. In a beautiful mediterranean forest, where other species co-exist, the Wolf easily becomes the center […]

“I made a rowboat cruise through the canals of Venice, rowing away into the lagoon, on a quiet November evening. You can hear the sounds of a few motor boats […]

“I hunkered down in our local harbour in the early hours of the morning. The constant battering of the wind on the sails and masts made some really interesting sounds.” […]

“I was testing new mics the other day and have a small recording during a unseasonable rain and had a nice surprise.” www.capturedsound.com

“Two boys dare each other to run across the thin, cracked layer of ice which zigzags over the surface of the marshland. Their joyful shrieks scatter the crows from a […]

“This is taken from my garden (a small field), next to the railway line, while a few doors down someone works with a circular saw. I was indoors doing my […]

“After probably the most turbulent Christmas of my life, this morning I woke up in a neighbourhood of Milan covered in snow. I took a walk toward my studio, leaving […]

“Against all safety measures and reason, I had to go on a trip to New Orleans last week for a doc project. I did not feel good about it. There […]

“A pandemic Christmas Day morning in Ojai, birds big and small, celery prep chopping, Christmas messages being left on voicemails.”

“A windy tromp to an icy brook through the snowy woods behind my house. The snow was deep enough that it felt like I was walking through sand dunes. When […]

“Today I used my rainy Saturday to go to a gen-u-ine field and do you a recording.” www.arlie.me

“I made this recording in the run up to Christmas in a barn on a turkey farm in the South Downs National Park in East Sussex. The bizarre collective gobble-gobble trill […]

“This recording starts with a distressingly loud helicopter flying overhead but I’ve kept it in because I think it helps to contrast with and accentuate the quiet that comes after.”

“The Loupin Stanes is a small stone circle that has stood in the Esk Valley in Southern Scotland for around five thousand years. This was recorded binaurally within the circle […]

“I am sending you a recording I did during lockdown. It was at a very particular part of the city, where the urban traffic and the few remaining sounds of […]

A slow weave of some of 2020’s Field Recordings in chronological order. Pebble Bay, Nuuk, Greenland in March 2020 by Katalin Laszlo “It’s -20 degrees, and at first I can’t […]

“I present to you, the haunting of the Ghost Train! echoing through the thin winter air. I can hear the call of the train travel four miles from Portland across […]

“Leah was chopping brussels sprouts and putting them into a risotto, which is an amazing thing she does around this time of year. I was doing a bad attempt at […]

“Spending my quarantine in the woods. The snow mostly makes everything extra quiet, but when the wind blows you can hear the cracking of branches and gentle thuds of boughs […]

“Walking through the woods behind the cemetery, the spiked edges of the holly scratching a thin pattern through my tights.”

“A gorgeous, pebbly beach recorded on the morning of a friend’s wedding.”

“Breakfast with a rafter of Turkeys”

“A mind-frying congregation of vibrating exoskeletons, birds and mammals celebrating the gifts of rainfall around a newly formed lake in the Louga région of Senegal. These party animals were nowhere to […]

“This is a binaural recording while I was standing between the North Grand Island Bridges in Grand Island New York.” www.throwbackreviews.com/theaveragerunner

“I live nearby this really captivating and ominous water tower so walked up the hill there. It sounded surprisingly crunchy because it’s gotten quite icy and I was walking through […]

“In a courtyard in Davit Gareja, a beautiful cave monastery carved into the foothills of Mount Gareja, bordering Georgia and Azerbaijan.”

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“I’ve heard this train for months now at my home approximately 7 miles (11.25 km) away and waited 2 hours for it to pass one morning. Being so close was […]

“I stayed one or two nights in this hotel that was directly opposite Shinjuku park. Not a field per se but a pretty standard urban park: fairly landscaped, surrounded by […]

“Recorded towards the end of July 2020, down at the shore near the entrance to Dunbar’s New Harbour. The ruin of Dunbar Castle dominates the harbour and provides a nesting site […]

“When the sun rises in El Impenetrable forest, in the Chaco province of Argentina, and the day begins, the charatas (a local bird) start to sing (or maybe caw?), one […]

“By the time I got dressed and out of the house, a dance party erupted a few blocks away. People handing out booze on street corners. Two glasses of champagne […]

“Late Saturday morning (or was it afternoon), I was sitting in my pajamas, still drinking coffee and engaging in general lazing when I heard something outside… Opened the window to […]

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“It’s (finally) a good day in Brooklyn.” www.jamestgreen.com

“I recorded this one of the last times you were sick. I’d spent the evening at your house, my bedroom door ajar to listen for you in the night. You […]

“I recorded these pebbles being carried by the waves, whilst my partner was having a swim (it was FAR too cold for me to get in). We also met this dog. Then […]

“In the grasslands (Sahel) of Senegal I was making recordings in the brutal midday sun. It was this day that these grasslands had come alive for it had finally rained the […]

“It was the middle of the night and the thunder woke me. My family slept on peacefully. But I’d never heard thunder like it. It was quite thrilling. Like a […]

“We’re emerging from our little lockdown bubbles here in Melbourne, and I was keen to stretch out past the 5km radius I’d been confined to since July. It was good […]

“This past June, at least in the US, there was a sense that the fireworks going off well into the night, every night, across neighbourhoods in major cities were a […]

“Under the Boardwalk  Down by the sea Hanging out by the Wetherspoons, squawking Some starlings, and me”

“One of the last warm and sunny summer days by the lake Pyhäselkä in Joensuu, Finland. Small waves gently crashing on the rocks.”

“Riverbeds in south Africa and Botswana are home to incredibly loud and varied soundscapes as the rainy season arrives. The acoustics of these places make them perfect for birds to […]

“In lockdown cycling to Tottenham Marshes has afforded me some early morning solitary peace amongst the singing grasses and the quiet boats bobbing upon the canal. As the sun started […]

“The ducks and geese used to wake me up at dawn but now it’s the kittens. They crawl into bed and find a nook to settle down in until breakfast. […]

“After being repeatedly woken by the birds outside my window at 5 AM, I finally managed to muster the energy to point my recorder out at the dawn chorus before […]

“I had driven past this field, close to my home in Kent, many times. Last year it was filled with rapeseed. This year it was wheat. In late April I […]

“I stand among the graves of Nunhead cemetery. My eyes are fixed on a set of headstones, adorned with draped urns rendered in stone. The partly cloaked objects appear to […]

“After a night camping out in the garden, I woke up in the early hours of the morning with the birds. I popped my recorder out the front of the […]

“Dusk is one of the most active times for bird and frog calls in this marsh in Quebec, Canada. The large open space invites listening, with birds swooping by and lots […]

“On the 1,000 acre island, just over one-mile from our home, on the eastside of Detroit, there’s a swimming hole I like to go to as much as I can. […]

“This little pocket-handkerchief sized reservoir sits between the main BNSF rail line and Highway 64 just 50 miles south of the Grand Canyon and is a popular recreational spot so […]

“Sitting in the car, listening to the raindrops beating against the roof. This is a binaural recording.”

“I sat by this brook for a long time recording its burblings before an older couple walked down the trail, ‘taking pictures of the water are ya?’ the man asked. […]

“The recording is from the place where I grew up and where I used to listen to the soundscapes since my early childhood. There is a meadow with some old fruit trees, […]

“Last night we watched a tree fall. A loud crack – before the landscape fell apart. It collapsed in front of the moonlit lake across the path behind us. Branches […]

“I’m on furlough, and stuck indoors by lockdown and the rain.There was thunder and lightning, not much. And then it started to rain. I stood at my bedroom window and […]

“I’m reasonably knowledgeable about birds but last year I heard something I couldn’t recognise. It was a strange high-pitched squeak. It turned out to be a roe deer kid ( […]

“I stumbled across this gently babbling brook on an overcast New Year’s Day walk in the charming village of Cornwell, West Oxfordshire, close to where we live in the Cotswolds. […]

“Opening my back door on a rare wet summer evening in Hackney, to let in the scent of petrichor. ‘A pleasant smell that frequently accompanies the first rain after a […]

“Goblin Coombe is a quiet limestone valley, fringed by woodlands and bordering Bristol (International) airport. The airport has expanded dramatically over the last 10 years, meaning that recording opportunities are […]

“Blackness, freedom and cycling feel connected. In a country where we aren’t free, bikes allow us to take at least some of that freedom back, using our minds and bodies […]

“A thunderstorm recorded in the Pagrati neighbourhood of Athens, Greece in July of 2014. That summer an international group of artists converged to attend the annual Syros Sound Meetings at […]

“A short binaural piece.”

“Recorded our walk around Crystal Palace Park in London on Sunday 5th April. We followed social distancing advice and kept at least 2 metres from all other park dwellers, including […]

This soundscape was recorded by Ann Jones — host of ABC nature podcast Off Track (https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/offtrack/) while on the road in Wiluna, Western Australia.  “Wiluna is a town on the […]

“The curfew goes into effect at 2’05” on this recording. This is recorded in a neighborhood with a relatively low police presence. The recording includes: fairly constant police and news […]

“Just wanted to share a clip of my neighbour playing saxophone. I went out to smoke and they were just going to town, loved this humanity…” www.jamestgreen.com