Field Recordings

“I’ve been to the top of Signal Hill more times than I can count. But never while there was enough fog to trigger the foghorn. I loved hearing the foghorn call out among the sounds of the ever present, blustery wind and the many tourists.  I’ll send a photo of the view of the narrows at the entrance to the most easterly harbour in North America.”

“It’s a field recording session from a pond close to Monte Gussa, near the city of Bergamo. In the audio, you can hear various types of insects, moorhens, bees, light aircraft, and bells. I love this place, which is so close to my home.”

“I’ve got a little recording of some Eider ducks on a rainy Loch Fyne in May this year – the cooling sounds of the water might be a nice antidote to current conditions!  It was a bit windy and the ducks remained always just a little bit far out, but you can just about catch them out there I think.”

“I heard this grey tree frog while biking through Ottawa’s Central Experimental Farm late at night this past June 8. I had never heard this sound before and was captivated and scared at the same time.”

“On a quiet, rainy Saturday morning I was sitting under the porch of my studio enjoying a coffee. Despite the rain and wind, birds seemed to be having a very busy time, with a robin leading the racket.”

“Recorded from Woolwich, on the other side of the river Thames. The sound of the factory, along with planes coming and going from City airport, boats and the river all mixed together to form a drone like wall of sound.”

“In a quiet spring morning dozens of bees were frantically collecting nectar from a flowering blackberry bush. They were vey loud and busy.”

“The first real heat is hitting and the frogs are out, the humans are slowing down & the beeps are beeping.”

“Because of the heat (it was 33 degrees or so), we went to the woods. My son and his friend were making music with sticks and trees. One of their sticks snapped and had to be replaced. Then the replacement snapped, and needed replacing too.”

“A horse and foal graze near the roadside by Lough Inagh”

“Standing by the side of the road for the Noise Parade as the Kilfinane Noise Band (made up of the Kilfinane National School 3rd-6th classes) march through the streets at Hearsay Festival making joyful chaos – led by audio producer Mike Williams”

“Sitting in a garden in rural Suffolk on a lovely Saturday morning. The weather was glorious, the birds and insects were incredibly loud. It felt like a spring explosion!”

“One day a year, I turn the quintessential night owl that I am into an early bird and get up before dawn to participate in Reveil . This magical project by Soundcamp broadcasts the sounds of the Dawn Chorus, live streamed by people all over the world. For 24+1 hours, you can hear the earth waking up, as the mix makes a loop around the globe. Every year, I’m profoundly touched by the po...

“I recorded it with a set of binaural earphones. On the chairlift is this plastic hood that you can drop down if it rains. It was up though and served as this big reflective shield. That is one of the reasons (I think) you can hear the small brook coming from afar quite early on and when we get there it is louder than it has any right to be.”

“Standing in a frosted field watching a couple of rabbits bounce across the grass – geese occasionally fly overhead, you can hear a distant rooster, a tree-ful of crows, some sheep and the steadily waking up nearby road.”

“Recent lambs, their parents, and a helicopter that drones overhead and goes away again.”

“I think I scared the parents off yesterday by standing holding my phone atop the stepladder so I had to stick a proper recorder there and leave it to get you this. Shed interior followed by the thump of an arriving parent with food and then chaos. Enjoy!”

“The Memory Den is a large warehouse converted to a vintage shopping Mall in the industrial area of Portland, Oregon, USA. Trains hauling a hundred wagons pass along the tracks just meters away from the building. This recording is from inside the Memory Den: a passing train sounds its horn and kids play the basketball shooting machine inside the Mall before dabbling on an old piano. Recorded...

“A recording of a model steam organ playing next to a row of stationary steam engines at the Coleford Carnival of Transport, an annual vintage car fair in The Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. Recorded on Easter Monday, 6 April 2026”

“Busker playing something slowish on guitar, while two old men rocked out to their own huge speaker that they’d wheeled in…”