The Art Of Being There

There’s always something to capture with field recording. You go out to somewhere you think is quiet and boring.. stand or sit, listen, and then ...something appears. Sound is energy; energy is life - there are very few places you can go where neither of these are present. Even if all you get is ‘silence’ there will be a quality to it, an ambience or a tone that speaks of where or how it was recorded. Or it might be that even the sound of your handling of the recorder at the beginning and end of the sequence that mark as some quote marks ” “ to some ‘silence’? Either way, you capture something: a movement, a gesture, a quality of sound, it is some form of energy transfer, and you capture a moment in time.