Field Recordings
Episodes
Garden next door to a festival, Münster, Germany in October 2022 – by Tristan Konrad
24 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“This one was recorded in my garden in Münster, Germany with a Zoom H1N. 3 times a year there is a huge folk festival called ‘Send’ going on ri...
Heavy rain, North West London, UK in October 2022 – by Alex Micu
24 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“I would like to share with you a field recording from my garden in NW London. It features this garden furniture cover and raindrops tap dancing on ...
Binaural bells, St Pauls Cathedral, London, UK on 19th September 2022 – by Joe Harvey-Whyte
21 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“St Paul’s cathedral bells ring for the state funeral on 19th September 2022. A binaural recording made using a matched pair of DPA 4060 microph...
Hogpen Hill Farm, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA on Sunday 16th October 2022 – by Leah Kopperman
20 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“I recorded the attached audio file on Sunday, October 16, at Hogpen Hill Farm in Litchfield County, Connecticut. Hogpen Hill is a 234-acre tree f...
Sukkot celebrations from my window, Brooklyn, New York, USA on 12th October 2022 – by Jess Shane
19 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“I live close to a Chabad-Lubavitch in Brooklyn. Last night, the community was celebrating Sukkot, and I could hear peals of celebration a few block...
Dusk chorus, Ewingar, New South Wales, Australia on 16th October 2022 – by Jaye Kranz
17 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“A 300 acre farm in Ewingar NSW. The dusk chorus you can hear from the porch”
Enough is Enough National Day of Action, Outside Kings Cross Station, London, UK on 1st October 2022
16 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Healcrest Green, Garfield, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA on 11th October 2022 – by Andrea Laurion
15 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“I recorded this while reporting a story on an urban farm that’s being turned into a community green space.” andrealaurion.com
Muffled Bells, Cuddington, Buckinghamshire, UK on 19th September 2022 – by Paul Ridout
14 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“As a republican I probably shouldn’t have enjoyed this as much as I did – the bells in the village church were being rung this morning with muf...
Night train, Vedia, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina in April 2022 – by Joaquín Conde
14 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“The sound of a distant night train reaches out to us over the barking dogs and the wind chimes at my parents’ house”
Trafalgar Square, London, UK around 1pm on 10th September 2022
11 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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Midnight waves crashing on Overstrand Beach at high tide, Norfolk, UK on 1st August 2021 – by Joe Harvey Whyte
09 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“Binaural recording using DPA 4060 matched pair & Sound Devices Mix Pre 3ii”
Thunderstorm through skylight, London, UK at 11.20pm on 5th September 2022 – by Eleanor McDowall
05 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Takapou Bay, South Island, New Zealand in August 2022 – by Martin Zaltz Austwick
31 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Cow chorus in the middle of the road, near Te Kao, New Zealand on 30th August 2022 – by Helen Zaltzman
30 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Shingle Shack, Lydd on Sea, on the edge of Dungeness, UK in 2019 – by Grant Wilkinson
25 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“I was recently given the gift of time and space, to blow at my own discretion, in Lydd on Sea, on the edge of Dungeness. I’ve visited half a doze...
Mid-afternoon by the river, near Uxbridge, London, UK on 19th July 2022 – by Andrea Rangecroft
20 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“When it’s the hottest day ever recorded in the UK (40.2c) and you live in a small metal box, there’s only one thing to do and that’s go to th...
8pm, rural village garden, Suffolk, UK on 19th July 2022 – by Melissa Harrison
19 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“4 mins of a rural village garden, 29.7 degrees at gone 8pm on the day we broke 40, in the UK’s most water-stressed and lowest-rainfall region, fe...
Sitting in the dark, by the fan, reading and writing emails, London, UK on 19th July 2022 – by Siddharth Khajuria
19 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Pondweed bubbles, Raglan Castle moat, Wales, UK in the afternoon on 16th July 2022 – by Paul Ridout
19 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“It was a blazingly hot afternoon and the sunshine on the pondweed in the moat was generating bubbles that were popping all around as I sat in a “...
Afternoon rain, wild savanna rainforest on the border between Republic of the Congo and Gabon, 2018 – by George Vlad
18 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“The patches of trees create small shaded havens for wildlife, but they don’t completely obstruct the soundscape as ancient rainforests will do. Y...
Lake swim at sunrise, the morning after midsummer, Groß Köris, Germany in June 2022 – by Eleanor McDowall
26 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“Swam out to watch the sun come up across the water. Bats overhead and roosters crowing in the distance.”
Parsley frogs at night, Lérouville, Lorraine, France on 5th June 2022 – by Colin Hunter
17 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“The main goal of my trip to Lorraine in the east of France was to record Common Midwife Toads. The location was an old disused quarry just outside ...
July morning on Perent Lake, Boundary Waters Canoe Area, Northern Minnesota, USA in 2021 – by Rob Byers
15 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“Most of the BWCA is only accessible by canoe —no motors are allowed — making it a quiet place. I like this recording because there are so many ...
Rain on the sea, Camber Sands, East Sussex, UK on 23rd May 2022 – by Sam Clements and Louise Owen
14 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“Stayed overnight in Camber Sands, East Sussex. Was hoping to go for a morning swim in the sea, but was so cold the best we could manage was paddl...
Hail on glass, Portland, Oregon, USA on 13th April 2022 – by Jason Hovatter
09 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rock jump cove, near Harlyn and Mother Ivy bay, Cornwall, UK in July 2021 – by Tash Walker
08 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“This is the sound of the cove before I swam out to the rock and jumped in, it was completely deserted and about 8am in the morning. I wanted to […...
Church bells fading into birdsong, Berlin, Germany in March 2022 – by Jeff Emtman
07 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“Bells on the weekend coming from the church. They give way eventually to birdsong.” Recorded for the Here Be Monsters episode 153: Klänge from B...
Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn, NY, USA in June 2022 – by JT Green
06 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“I’ve got a new field recording for you. It’s of Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn. Quite an electric afternoon for being in the middle of the week. ...
8pm, Herefordshire, UK on 14th May 2022 – by Simon Forster
01 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“Alive with the sound of ducks, ewes & lambs, wood pigeons, a distant lawnmower & surprise appearance from light aircraft passing directly overhead ...
Industrial area with birds and a working crane, Lempdes, Auvergne, France on 30th May 2022 – by Elena Lazic
31 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“My parents have sold their previous house and now temporarily live in a small apartment within the sort of hangar where the trucks and machines of ...
Stream in a forest glade, Ambleside, Cumbria, UK in April 2022 – by Geoff Marsh
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“I just sent you a recording from a lovely little glade in the forests above Ambleside, which was covered in bluebells, and loads of pesky bumblebe...
Spring peepers at dusk, Glen Arbor, Northern Michigan, USA on 21st April 2022 – by Roger Amundsen
02 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“Was out for an evening run off Lake Michigan, and i was quite literally stopped mid-stride by this deafening cacophony of spring peepers and the lo...
Picaflor Bronceado (Gilded Sapphire) in Mármol, Buenos Aires, Argentina on 8th October 2021 – by María Emilia Pérez
30 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“I walked along Canale Street with Damián, we talked about what life is like in José Mármol while we enjoyed the rich sound and visual landscape,...
Goats walking on pebbles close to the sea, just beyond Kas, Turkey in April 2022 – by Phoebe McIndoe
29 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“This was part of the Lycean way we did and this recording was made just beyond a town called Kaş. We thought we had reached the middle of nowhere...
Creaky trees at Rannoch Moor, Scottish Highlands, Scotland on 23rd April 2022 – by Steve Urquhart
27 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“I recorded this at dawn, at the edge of a vast forest on the north-west bank of Loch Laidon on Rannoch Moor, on a dry and bright but blustery Sprin...
Dawn Chorus, Forêt du Grand Duc, Mandelieu, France in April 2021 – by Colin Hunter
22 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“Here is a recording I made of the spring dawn chorus in the Tanneron Ridges, about 5km inland from the Mediterranean Sea in the south of France. ...
In the gloaming, Eskdalemuir, Scotland on 19th April 2022 – by Geoff McQueen
21 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“Lambs and their mothers. Pheasants shouting and roosting. Other, nicer sounding birds, doing their things. The steady sound of the river at the bot...