A new book, published this month, explores the use of field recordings in electronic music.
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.
A synopsis of Ears To The Ground: Adventures In Field Recording & Electronic Music reads: “On its journey, the book takes in abandoned military test sites, remote bird colonies, estuaries, cities, coastlines, old quarries, neolithic burial grounds, scientific research centres and docklands, and ventures between Orkney, Edinburgh and Cork to Norfolk, Kent and Snowdonia, before heading to Kenya, Ukraine, Japan and Antarctica.”
The book is available to purchase here.
Ears To The Ground: Adventures In Field Recording & Electronic Music is out now on Velocity Press.
