Field Recordings
498 episodes - English - Latest episode: 23 days ago - ★★★★★ - 62 ratingsA podcast where audio-makers stand silently in fields (or things that could be broadly interpreted as fields).
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The sound of a woodland from the perspective of early blossoming plants in Bern, Switzerland on 5th April 2020 – by This Wachter
April 09, 2020 15:13 - 13 minutes - 16.9 MB“I attached my binaural earphone microphones to a hat, on the ground of the forest, to get the sound that blooming plants would hear (if they had ears like us). […]
Jökulsárlón, Iceland in 2019 – by Charo Calvo
April 09, 2020 08:00 - 5 minutes - 10.1 MB“The famous lake where many chunks of ice drift to the sea from the Vatnajökull glacier. It was almost dark, nobody around and lots of wind. Closed eyes listening.” www.charocalvo.org
42nd St and 1st Avenue, New York, USA on 7th April 2020 – by Benjamin Riskin
April 08, 2020 12:52 - 6 minutes - 4.2 MB“Recorded in Manhattan on April 7th, from 6:58pm EST – 7:03pmish. We had the highest virus death count last night.” www.benjaminriskin.com
River walk, Vilnius, Lithuania on 31st March, 2020 – by Vaida Pilibaityte
April 08, 2020 08:09 - 3 minutes - 9.75 MB“Daily walk along the Neris River has been my only time outside since the announcement of quarantine nearly three weeks ago. Before it used to be relaxing. Now it’s a […]
Hollow Tree, Sergiyev Posad, Russia on 11th March 2011 – by Vladimir Kryuchev
April 07, 2020 17:07 - 15 minutes - 20.2 MB“There’s an old tree near the railroad in Sergiyev Posad. It seems to be still alive but there are lots of hollows and cracks running through the bark. It sways […]
Park am Gleisdreieck, Berlin, Germany at 6am on 18 March 2020 – by Benjamin Yates
April 07, 2020 08:20 - 5 minutes - 7.61 MB“This recording was taken at dawn this morning. The park is a former wasteland at the intersect between West and East Berlin which has now been reclaimed as an urban […]
Grey-headed flying fox colony, Yarra Bend Park, Melbourne, Australia – by Jon Tjhia
April 06, 2020 16:19 - 21 minutes - 27.7 MB“Up to 30,000 grey-headed flying foxes (fruit bats) roost in a colony at Yarra Bend Park, hanging from the eucalypts that flank the river. Nightly at dusk, they fly over and into Melbourne’s […]
Wildlife Refuge, Philadelphia, USA on 26th March 2020 – by Alex Lewis
April 06, 2020 08:58 - 4 minutes - 2.99 MB“I recorded this just after sunrise this morning at the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge.It’s a massive beautiful green space with all kinds of cool birds and turtles. Even after […]
Wind through the pines, Sierra Nevada, USA – by Fil Corbitt
April 05, 2020 17:52 - 2 minutes - 6.89 MB“Hours before a snowstorm in the Sierra Nevada. All the aspen and willows are dormant now so the wind is mostly audible through the Ponderosa Pines.” www.filcorbitt.com
Frogs, Hilo, Hawaii, USA in 2018 – by Helen Zaltzman
April 05, 2020 08:21 - 34 seconds - 5.86 MB“Bit short but these are some teeny tiny REALLY LOUD frogs in Hilo, Hawaii. I recorded the frogs outside our room in a little B&B (run by a nice retired […]
Dusk, Orleigh Park, Brisbane, Australia – by Michelle Ransom-Hughes
April 04, 2020 16:41 - 4 minutes - 6.99 MB“Sounds collected in Orleigh Park at dusk. Fruit bats, crows, cicadas, the ferry, scooters, bikes, dogs, joggers, walkers, talkers, local traffic and more flying foxes. Too loud in some parts. […]
Walking through the dunes to the sea, Nantucket, USA in August – by Justine Paradis
April 04, 2020 08:01 - 15 minutes - 20.5 MB“I made this recording on a perfect blue afternoon in August on Nantucket island, where I grew up. I’d come home for a friend’s wedding and was anticipating seeing an […]
Ernest E. Debs Regional Park, Los Angeles, USA in March 2020 – by Nick White
April 03, 2020 16:44 - 2 minutes - 6.05 MB“For this recording a friend and I were in a small clearing (field?) next to a tiny pond called Peanut Lake. The entire park overlooks downtown Los Angeles and the […]
Woodland, Essex, UK at 5.50am on 26th March 2020 – by Sarah Vermont
April 03, 2020 08:22 - 7 minutes - 11.7 MB“It’s a true dawn chorus with the drill of a woodpecker at the far corner of the wood or possibly in the gnarled old oak tree… one of the reminders […]
Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire April 2018 – by Axel Kacoutié
April 02, 2020 15:55 - 1 minute - 5.72 MB“Friday 13th. Standing on the street outside our hotel waiting to meet my dad. I hadn’t seen or talked to him for the last 15 years before this recording and […]
Bells, Hvar, Croatia at 7.30am on 21st May 2009 – by Chris Brookes
April 02, 2020 09:54 - 5 minutes - 8.74 MB“Photo is the central square where I recorded it. I was there for the Prix Marulic festival, and I’d planned to be there again next month. Of course Covid has nixed […]
Lemur calls, Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar in May 2016 – by Amy Ryles
April 01, 2020 16:56 - 10 minutes - 16.6 MB“The lemurs sound a little like they’re sitting in the trees, each slowly letting the air out of a balloon.”
Train Journey, Tokyo, Japan on 25th November 2019 – by Ghibliotheque
April 01, 2020 08:50 - 4 minutes - 7.02 MBThe train between Tama and Shinjuku in Tokyo.
Rain Gutter, Thornhill, Ontario, Canada on 23rd March 2020 – by Yasaman Mansoori
March 31, 2020 17:13 - 1 minute - 2.51 MBRainfall through a downspout.
Early morning, Kilfinane, Ireland in September 2017 – by Daniel Higgott
March 31, 2020 08:03 - 1 minute - 5.05 MB“Here’s the sound of Kilfinane waking up in the morning, recorded during HearSay Festival. One beautiful and quiet morning, I woke up early and took my Zoom to the highest […]
Early afternoon by the Tagus river in Lisbon, Portugal on 29th March 2020 – by Sofia Saldanha
March 30, 2020 16:28 - 8 minutes - 12 MB“The bridge humming crosses the soundscape during the Coronavirus lockdown.”
Backyard storm, Darwin, Australia – by Nyah Bertschi and Caddie Brain
March 30, 2020 08:35 - 3 minutes - 5.13 MB“It’s a steamy wet season evening. The neon clouds have faded to greyscale and a tropical storm is rolling through not so far from here. Nyah, 5 years old, has been eyeing […]
Vinemount Meadows Nature Sanctuary, Stoney Creek, Ontario, Canada on March 27 2020 at 7:30pm – by Rob Porter
March 29, 2020 13:56 - 5 minutes - 11.6 MB“In the late evening just as the sun sets in early spring, a male Eastern Meadowlark sings loudly while in the background, dozens of chorus frogs sing their gurgling trill.” […]
West St Kilda Beach, Melbourne, Australia – by Erin Kyan
March 29, 2020 09:00 - 14 minutes - 19.2 MB“I was on a small jetty for this one, so that I could record right over the shoreline and get all those beautiful little bay waves as they rolled up […]
Coyotes, Quabbin reservation, Massachusetts, USA, early evening in July 2014 – by Geoff Bird
March 28, 2020 16:39 - 1 minute - 2.81 MB“The voices you hear belong to wildlife biologist Stephen DeStefano and author Aminatta Forna, who was presenting a documentary we were making about Jack London (during which I broke my […]
Arlington’s Great Meadows, Lexington, Massachusetts, USA at 7:15am on 25th March – by Julie Shapiro
March 28, 2020 09:59 - 4 minutes - 9.34 MB“I went out this morning with Nathaniel’s Zoom which I obviously am not able to hold very quietly. (Meticulous field recordist, I am not!). Phin stayed back in bed, with […]
Barred Owls, White Rock, British Columbia, Canada – by McKenna Hadley-Burke
March 27, 2020 17:48 - 58 seconds - 4 MB“I live in White Rock, Canada. Every morning and evening I head out to give my dog (and myself) some much-needed fresh air and as we wind our way through a […]
Yesnaby, Orkney, Scotland in July 2019 – by Will Pritchard
March 27, 2020 09:23 - 5 minutes - 17.2 MB“At Yesnaby, the sandstone strata soften into whitewash – rippling out with the never-ending cycle of the tide. Gazing out to the horizon, it might be the edge of the […]
Clapping NHS Workers, Spitalfields, London, UK – by Audrey Gillan
March 26, 2020 20:39 - 2 minutes - 4.63 MB“This is the sound from Spitalfields, recorded from my balcony which doesn’t face onto the street. You can hear me sniffing because I am crying.” www.audreygillan.com
Tennis Club, Dorset, UK – by Tom Rosenthal
March 26, 2020 15:45 - 4 minutes - 5.19 MBRecorded in Swanage, Dorset – sitting in a field looking across to the people playing tennis. www.tomrosenthal.co.uk
Morning in my garden, Denmark, 23rd March 2020 – by Rikke Houd
March 26, 2020 08:44 - 12 minutes - 18.6 MB“Recorded in my garden at 7.15 in the morning during a time of self-isolation. The birds don’t care whose garden it is. It is their world really. They like it here. […]
Residential streets, Hachiōji, Japan, 11:30pm on 26th September 2019 – by Aleister Kelman
March 25, 2020 19:25 - 3 minutes - 5.67 MB“Although part of the Tokyo Metropolitan area, at night the meandering residential streets of Hachiōji city are hushed. Without fail, late summer in Japan brings the sound of crickets stridulating, […]
Frogs, Kangaroo Island, Australia, 2018 – by Johanna Bell
March 25, 2020 09:35 - 1 minute - 7.12 MB“You can hear frogs (I’m not sure which species. I call them pebble frogs because they sound like a pebble being dropped into a well) and wattle bird. It was […]
Summer rain, distant thunder, Old Leighlin, Ireland – by Tadhg O’Sullivan
March 24, 2020 18:08 - 8 minutes - 12.2 MB“A summer afternoon in the field behind my house at home in Carlow.” www.tadhgosullivan.com
Last walk before lockdown, London, UK – by Georgia John-Charles
March 24, 2020 09:32 - 2 minutes - 1.39 MBLast night in Seven Sisters, walking across Markfield Park to the canal.
Stargazing, Zion National Park, Utah, USA – by Sam Leeds
March 23, 2020 17:36 - 1 minute - 4.8 MB“This was recorded just after dusk at a campsite outside Zion National Park. I was on a camping trip with my dad and we stepped outside the tent to see […]
Pebble Bay, Nuuk, Greenland in March 2020 – by Katalin Laszlo
March 23, 2020 08:51 - 2 minutes - 7.86 MB“It’s -20 degrees, and at first I can’t see anything in the blindingly white frozen world. After a minute, I start to make out the sprinkles of grey mountain rock […]
Paris, France, 8pm on 20th March 2020 – by Moon Hussain
March 22, 2020 12:16 - 1 minute - 2.65 MBThe applause and banging of pans which erupts every evening at 8pm out of the windows – for all the doctors, health care workers, and staff staying to help at […]
Brighton Beach, UK, 18th March 2020 – by Martin Zaltz Austwick
March 21, 2020 10:59 - 8 minutes - 12.5 MB“This was recorded on Brighton Beach in a break from staying indoors and avoiding coronavirus. We did not socially distance ourselves from the sea.” www.martinzaltzaustwick.com
The balcony of Cinema Jenin Guest House, Jenin, Palestine on 28th or 29th October 2017 – by Michael Umney
March 20, 2020 15:40 - 8 minutes - 10.7 MB“Recorded in the late afternoon on the balcony of the Cinema Jenin Guest House, in the North of the West Bank. The famous cinema over the road, which the guesthouse […]
Jeżowa Woda, Beskid Mountains, Poland – by John Beauchamp
March 20, 2020 11:19 - 4 minutes - 10 MB“400km due south from Warsaw is a hamlet called Jeżowa Woda near the highland market town of Limanowa. Nothing fancy, just a few houses perched on the side of a […]
Sinharaja tropical rainforest, South West of Sri Lanka, at daybreak – by Alannah Chance
March 19, 2020 17:56 - 6 minutes - 11.9 MB“When we arrived at the old tea plantation in the rainforest it was pitch black and still but alive with the sound of insects. I set my alarm for 5am the […]
Mont Royal Park (Cross-country ski trail #2), Montréal, Québec, Canada in February 2019 – by Cristal Duhaime
March 19, 2020 10:24 - 3 minutes - 7.02 MB“Mont Royal is the city’s main park and namesake – we refer to it as ‘The Mountain’ but it’s more of a medium-sized hill. It overlooks the city, there’s a […]
Hogsback, Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, last summer – by Neroli Price
March 18, 2020 11:27 - 6 minutes - 5.95 MB“This is a recording of a late summer thunderstorm in the Hogsback mountains in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. It was Easter Sunday, 21 April 2019. The rain started […]
Terrace, Rome, Italy, during the lockdown – by Daria Corrias
March 16, 2020 19:28 - 6 minutes - 8.71 MB“Everyday at 6pm people go on their balconies or terraces and start singing. Everyday a different song, today was ‘Volare’ by Domenico Modugno. In this recording you can hear kids […]
St. John’s Park, Brooklyn, USA – by James T. Green
March 10, 2020 14:39 - 4 minutes - 6.42 MB“I took this recording in the baseball field at St. John’s Park in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. The first two minutes are in one of the dugouts where I played a […]
Combate, Puerto Rico – by Ariana Martinez
March 07, 2020 16:26 - 3 minutes - 6.91 MB“This recording was made on the shore of El Combate, a beach in the Boquerón area of Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico. The recording is dated January 6th, which falls on […]
Golden Gully, Australia, at dusk – by Camilla Hannan
March 07, 2020 16:10 - 18 minutes - 21.9 MB“Here is a recording I made recently while on an artist residency in Hill End in western NSW. Just under 5 hours west of Sydney. (Population 100 as well as a […]