Queensland University of Technology provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. In 1889, an eight-year old boy made a recording of a Common Sharma using his father’s wax cylinder recorder.

Though different endeavours, field recording and found sound recording are dealt with as one topic for much of what follows, but what is the difference? Field recording refers to audio captured in its ...

BIRDS copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Nada Kramar Endowment Income Fund. "The transformation of sound recording into a scientific technique in the study of birdsong, as ...

Where is the field in field recording? Does it begin when the recordist enters the location, when they press record, or when we press play? If the field exists in the playback medium, to what extent ...

Recording audio out and about has never been easier than it is today. After all, everyone with anything remotely resembling a smartphone in their pocket has the capacity to capture sound pretty much ...