New Book on Field Recordings Reviewed

Source: The Quietus.

Written by Ben Murphy, a music journalist and contributing editor at DJ Mag, Ears To The Ground: Adventures In Field Recording & Electronic Music looks at the different ways that musicians use environmental sounds in their productions, whether that’s documenting nature or recording the sounds of a bustling city.

It takes in interviews with a long list of artists, who explain how they use field recordings in their music. Among those acts are KMRU, Kate Carr, Flora Yin-Wong, Oliver Ho, Lawrence English, Proc Fiskal, Erland Cooper, Matthew Herbert, Félicia Atkinson and Scanner.