Field Recording as Listening Practice

At the heart of my practice is a simple conviction: that careful listening is both methodology and a form of attention. A way of being present to the world. Field recording workshops extend this commitment, inviting participants to slow down, to listen deeply, and to understand how sound documents place in all its complexity. We move through landscapes with recording equipment not to capture "perfect" audio, but to attend to what's actually there: the layered ecologies of natural and human-made sound, the voices of the land and its people.

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The Workshop Methodology

We begin by listening. Not to recordings, but to the place itself. Standing still, opening the ears, noticing what emerges. Then we record: carefully, intentionally, documenting the soundscape as both archive and artistic gesture. Later, we listen together to what we've captured, discussing what the recordings reveal: what they foreground, what they hide, what they make audible that we usually overlook. This rhythm of listening, recording, and listening again creates a kind of meditation on place. Participants discover that field recording is not technical documentation but an act of care. An acknowledgment that every sound has a story, that landscape speaks, and that we have the capacity to hear it.