Field Recordings
503 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 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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London Fields, under social distancing, London, UK on 16th March 2020 – by Charlie Shackleton
May 25, 2020 09:20 - 6 minutes - 15.5 MB“I recently starting subletting a room in a house on the edge of London Fields in East London, so I’m going to be doing a lot of listening to fields […]
South Golden Beach, New South Wales, Australia on 23rd March 2015 – by Timothy Fairless
May 24, 2020 09:37 - 10 minutes - 25.3 MB“Clear and calm weather with minimal wind provided the perfect chance to document many sets of waves rolling onto South Golden Beach, just north of Byron Bay. Recording close to […]
Bird nest, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland in May 2019 – by Charo Calvo
May 23, 2020 09:12 - 6 minutes - 8.76 MB“Seyðisfjörður, at the top of the mountain, east of the town. A tiny black and white bird was sitting in its nest. While I approached he started to fly around […]
Sea waves on a rocky beach, Cumberland Bay, Robinson Crusoe Island, Chile on 5th June 2019 – by Martín Cruz Farga
May 22, 2020 09:32 - 4 minutes - 12.1 MB“Robinson Crusoe is a very isolated island in the Pacific Ocean, 600 km off the coast of Chile. I was there reporting for a Las Raras’ story about a tsunami […]
Skating rink, Sergiyev Posad, Russia on 5th January 2012 at 8pm – by Vladimir Kryuchev
May 21, 2020 08:21 - 15 minutes - 19.1 MB“This is a binaural recording that sounds much better when listened to through headphones. It’s about minus 15 Celsius or 5 Fahrenheit, and the rink is full of skaters: young […]
A field of skylarks, Beaconsfield, UK on 10th May 2020 – by Tim Baynes
May 20, 2020 08:33 - 4 minutes - 5.76 MB“On my frequent walks across this meadow the skylarks always sing, rising vertically high into the air. On Sunday I set my phone down and walked away. They must have seen me […]
The Magical Dripping Tree, Hoh Rainforest, Olympic Peninsula, USA in October 2017 – by Thomas Rex Beverly
May 19, 2020 08:14 - 3 minutes - 11.3 MB“Surprisingly, this sound is not rain. It was recorded under a patch of blue sky next to what I called “The Magical Dripping Tree”. You’re hearing massive drips from fog-soaked […]
Salters’ Garden, City of London, UK on 21st April 2020 – by Emerald Paston
May 18, 2020 07:38 - 1 minute - 3.3 MB“My housemate and I used our daily walk to explore the eerily empty city. We chanced across this patch of highly organised greenery and stood for a while enjoying the […]
Easter lunch in Pouilly-sur-Loire, France on 13th April 2020 – by Abi McNeil
May 17, 2020 08:32 - 1 minute - 1.83 MB“Lunch with my family has recently become a significant event. We try to elevate the household mood with delicious things, such as a gratin of courgettes, bacon with endives or […]
Hailstones and rain heard from inside a shipping container, Ballycurrin, Co. Galway, Ireland on 1st May 2020 – by Alan Meaney
May 16, 2020 08:45 - 5 minutes - 9.4 MB“After a few days of sunny weather, the clouds darkened in the morning and I anticipated rain. I grabbed my recorder and made my way into the shipping container which […]
Night-time, Delaware Water Gap, USA in September 2016 – by Bart Warshaw
May 15, 2020 08:03 - 12 minutes - 13.9 MB“Back in Sept 2016 some friends and I took canoes down the Delaware Water Gap and camped on the islands in the middle of the big river. On the last night of […]
Rainstorm, Brașov, Romania on 3rd May 2020 at 6.33pm – by Stefania Cotei
May 14, 2020 08:50 - 13 minutes - 5.17 MB“Settling into Sunday evening with rain, birdsong, and a blossoming May green while quarantined in the old Saxon settlement of Brașov, Transylvania.”
CERN Electronics Pool, near Geneva, Switzerland on 4th May 2014 – by Shanida Scotland
May 13, 2020 08:35 - 41 seconds - 567 KB“On 4th May 2014 I spent the day getting lost around the CERN campus. A variety of electrical sonic interferences and pulses bounced around and interrupted my thoughts. Machines whirred […]
Morning, Hampstead Heath, London, UK on 21st April 2020 – by Bridey Addison-Child
May 12, 2020 08:18 - 10 minutes - 12.7 MB“Ten minutes of trees rustling, birds cheeping, dogs snuffling and people passing by while I hid in a tree on Hampstead Heath one morning as Britain headed into week 5 […]
Church in the woods, Louisiana, USA at 6pm in April 2020 – by Mara Lazer
May 11, 2020 08:26 - 9 minutes - 10.6 MB“I stumbled into this church in the woods while walking near the Barataria Preserve, protected wetlands in southern Louisiana that are closed due to Covid. I keep coming back to […]
Girona Cathedral, Spain on 18th February 2020 at 8.25am – by George Upton
May 10, 2020 09:42 - 10 minutes - 13 MB“I’ve made a habit of coming to this spot – a seat cut into the far corner of the small elevated square in front of the cathedral – whenever I’m […]
Botanical Gardens, Glasgow, Scotland, UK on 25th April 2020 – by Charles Davies
May 09, 2020 09:24 - 6 minutes - 4.06 MB“On my exercise walk I paused for a few minutes. Glasgow has become my adopted city. Like many lacking a garden – we treat the parks like our own. In […]
Gardening, London, UK on 6th April 2020 – by Jessie Lawson
May 08, 2020 08:40 - 10 minutes - 18 MB“This is 11 minutes of my flatmate doing gardening while I was WFH in the garden next to him during self isolation. We live in North London in a little […]
Newport Wetlands nature reserve, Wales, UK at 12.00pm on August 17th 2016 – by Jonathan Prior
May 07, 2020 08:48 - 5 minutes - 5.94 MB“Part of the reserve is a former coal ash dumping ground produced by the Uskmouth power station, which still looms over the landscape. The sound of coal travelling up a […]
Dawn at a farm near Fusagasugá, Colombia, on 29th July 2018 – by Martín Cruz Farga
May 06, 2020 08:24 - 6 minutes - 14.6 MB“I was in this tropical town in Colombia recording a story for Las Raras. And as usual, I recorded the soundscapes where the story took place. I got up really […]
Small Bridge over the River Ping, Chiang Mai, Thailand in December 2017 – by Dennis Funk
May 05, 2020 08:21 - 3 minutes - 5.04 MB“I was lost walking on the wrong side of the river in Chiang Mai when I found this glangy, metal footbridge that set me right. On the far side, there […]
Pigeon coop, Brooklyn, NY, USA on 2nd December 2019 – by Hannah Dean
May 04, 2020 08:33 - 1 minute - 2.32 MB“Recorded on the 2nd of December 2019 – up on a pigeon flyer’s snowy rooftop, in downtown Brooklyn.”
Cockatoos before dusk, Canberra, Australia on 30th April 2020 – by Ben Williamson
May 03, 2020 09:40 - 10 minutes - 14.3 MB“Cockatoos noisily roosting in bushland on the edge of Canberra’s inner suburbs, on a cold clear evening after two days of rain. A few walkers and cyclists pass. Three birds are […]
Cascades Park, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA at 6.12pm on 24th March 2020 by Solon Kelleher
May 02, 2020 09:27 - 2 minutes - 6.24 MB“After a rainstorm or a snowfall melts, this waterfall roars. I spent a few moments with my recorder trying to capture that roar, but after a couple of unsatisfying attempts, […]
7:00pm in Conway, Massachusetts, USA on 13th April 2020 – by Sara Brooke Curtis
May 01, 2020 09:53 - 5 minutes - 6.77 MB“I was tired and needed space to myself. The wildness of nature often grounds me and so I left my family inside and stepped into my backyard. When I stepped outside […]
Thunderstorm on Sanderstraße, Berlin, Germany on 19th July 2017 – by Hannah Marsland, Chris Marsland and Phil Smith
April 30, 2020 08:17 - 2 minutes - 5.26 MB“The sky’s opened, the world ran for cover. But Chris, Chris lives for storms… he ran into the street and span. We looked on a while, Phil letting the accordion […]
Only You, Gagarin Hall, Sergiyev Posad, Russia on 28th March 2013 – by Vladimir Kryuchev
April 29, 2020 07:16 - 1 minute - 4.26 MB“This is not a straightforward recording of a youth choir performing live but one muffled by a long corridor that leads to the stage, punctuated with raindrops outside.”
Marshes, Seven Sisters, London, UK on 31st December 2019 – by Eleanor McDowall
April 28, 2020 09:53 - 27 minutes - 34.6 MB“Sitting by the marshes on the last day of the year. Noisy birdsong, the rumble of a nearby trainline, a tiny dog romping in jubilantly near the end. Still struggling […]
Sounds of the celebration of Portuguese democracy, Lisbon, Portugal on 25th April 2020 – by Sofia Saldanha
April 27, 2020 08:44 - 12 minutes - 17.5 MB“On the 25th April we celebrate the 1974 Revolution that brought democracy to Portugal. Every year on this day people gather in the streets holding red carnations and shouting ’25th […]
On the bank of Murrumbidgee River, Canberra, Australia in December 2019 – by Ryan Pemberton
April 26, 2020 09:20 - 39 minutes - 45.8 MB“This is an ambisonics recording I made mid-December last year. I had just finished building a dobsonian telescope and I was down in Canberra visiting my folks for Christmas. Me […]
Meiji Jingu, Tokyo, Japan, 10am on 13th September 2017 – by Aleister Kelman
April 25, 2020 08:42 - 2 minutes - 6.21 MB“Meiji Jingu is a well-known Shinto shrine located in the heart of Tokyo, near Harajuku. This recording was made early enough in the morning for the shrine’s approach to be placid […]
Abbey Road, London, UK on 8th April 2020 – by Suchandrika Chakrabarti
April 24, 2020 16:47 - 15 minutes - 37.7 MB“I walked down past Abbey Road Studios yesterday around 5pm, and for the first time, I didn’t see a single tourist posing on the crossing. The sound of excitement in half a […]
Stockers Lake in Rickmansworth, UK on 19th April 2020 – by Juliet Fitzpatrick
April 24, 2020 08:19 - 5 minutes - 3.95 MB“Recorded this morning on my daily dog walk with my 2 whippets, Sid & Stan… beside Stockers Lake Local Nature Reserve in Rickmansworth, Herts. It’s an old gravel pit and […]
Saxophonist, Rome, Italy on 10th April 2020 – by Daria Corrias
April 23, 2020 07:41 - 6 minutes - 7.15 MB“Now at 6pm, no one sings anymore. Maybe people have started to feel tired, I don’t know. But there is a guy, in a building close to mine, that plays […]
Gathering thunderstorm on the coast of Brittany, France, from inside a tent, on the 28th of July 2018 – by Rhiannon Armstrong
April 22, 2020 08:47 - 6 minutes - 11.1 MB“I recorded this in a rare moment of quiet at a family reunion attended by more than 100 relatives in Saint Brian-sur-Mer in Brittany, France. My aunt was also taking […]
Call to prayer, Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2016 – by Hana Walker-Brown
April 21, 2020 08:17 - 1 minute - 4.81 MB“The call to prayer rings through the bustling market.” www.hanawalkerbrown.com
At the closed border between Czech Republic and Austria on the 4th of April 2020 – by Brit Jensen
April 20, 2020 09:03 - 9 minutes - 11.6 MB“All Czech borders with neighbouring countries have remained closed since the middle of March (precisely since the 14th of March). The only traffic allowed through/past are trucks transporting goods. These […]
Twilight, Corhanwarrabul Wetlands, Australia in December 2008 – by Paolo Pietropaolo
April 19, 2020 09:01 - 14 minutes - 20 MB“In December 2008 we were visiting my brother-in-law in the southeastern suburbs of Melbourne. There was a wetland in the park next to his house that had the most insane […]
Krumme Lanke, Berlin, Germany, Erholungsuchenden on a Sunday afternoon in January 2020 – by Marta Medvešek
April 18, 2020 09:08 - 15 minutes - 18.5 MB“I went for stillness at the lake, but everyone else did the same… 15 min of ducks, birds, people and different machines. And water.”
River, Longarone, Dolomiti Mountains in Veneto, Italy – by Jonathan Zenti
April 17, 2020 16:27 - 14 minutes - 17.1 MB“In 2013 the little mountain village of Longarone, in the Dolomiti Mountains in Veneto, Italy, celebrated the anniversary of the greatest natural disaster caused by human beings. 50 years before, […]
Gaza Strip in 2017 – by Christian Lerch
April 17, 2020 08:33 - 59 seconds - 4.99 MBSent on 23rd March 2020 “I woke up this morning, to find an email in my mailbox from a former source in Gaza. There was only one sentence in the message, ‘first Covid […]
8pm, Castellar, France on 9th April 2020 – by Charlotte Rouault
April 16, 2020 16:54 - 5 minutes - 9.21 MBRecorded in southeastern France, as the key worker clap begins.
Gooseberry Island, Westport, Massachusetts, USA on 21st March 2020 – by T.H. Ponders
April 16, 2020 08:37 - 10 minutes - 13.7 MB“One of the my favorite features of Gooseberry Island – besides the beach of crushed pink shells on the north shore of Gumby’s Head and the two fire towers built […]
Noon in New Cairo, Egypt on 7th April 2020 – by Tala El-issa
April 15, 2020 18:21 - 7 minutes - 12.2 MB“Cairo is usually thought of as one of the busiest and most chaotic cities in the Arab world, and that is true. But many people are trying to escape the […]
Hough End Clough, Manchester, UK on 21st March 2020 – by OD Davey
April 15, 2020 08:25 - 23 minutes - 30.2 MB“Hough End Clough (pronounced ‘huff end cloff’) is a thin strip of land between a main road and a police-dog kennel in south-central Manchester, UK, a between-space now nurtured by […]
Katydids at night, North Carolina, USA – by Will Coley
April 14, 2020 18:15 - 4 minutes - 8.54 MB“Katydids are the sound of summer for me. When I was growing up in North Carolina, these insects were the white noise machine that lulled me to sleep. Apparently they’re […]
The Lythe, Selborne Common, Hampshire, UK on the summer solstice 2019 – by Alan Hall
April 14, 2020 08:18 - 5 minutes - 6.32 MB“It’s approaching half past four in the morning and there’s a mist hanging over the valley. Nothing about this location – the woodland, the air dense with birdsong, the heavy […]
Nighttime, Windellama, Australia – by Jess Bineth
April 13, 2020 17:33 - 2 minutes - 3.85 MB“My Mum has 100 hectares of land a few hours south/west of Sydney in a place called Windellama. It has 11 trees, a gravel road, a shed to sleep in […]
Shingle Beach, St Leonards, East Sussex, UK in March 2020 – by Jonathan Williams
April 13, 2020 08:30 - 5 minutes - 7.41 MB“St Leonards (or St Leonards-on-Sea) is a town in East Sussex, on the south coast of the UK. The beaches in this area are stabilised with groynes – low walls […]
Starling Murmuration, Nobber, Co. Meath, Ireland in January 2019 – by Zoë Comyns
April 12, 2020 14:57 - 6 minutes - 8.24 MB“Every evening at dusk in late winter 2019, ten to twenty thousand starlings came home to roost after a spectacular murmuration which lasted for nearly an hour in the skies […]