Ears to the Ground: Adventures in Field Recording and Electronic Music (Ben Murphy) Read 2025
A collection of interviews and music journalist reviews and articles. It got me a ton of inspiration about how to think about field recordings, and what artists to listen to.
Here are a few: Field recording artists
Despite the ever-increasing popularity of field recordings in electronic music, he’s surprised their use isn’t more widespread. “I don’t feel it’s prevalent at all considering the revolution that it is. We can now make music out of literally anything we can record, so why pick up a synth or a guitar when you can use the sound of a pelican, a cross-channel ferry, a year of sounds from an orchard, sheep on their way to the market, an autopsy, jam jars, plastic washed up on beaches, Sunak’s helicopter, the floods in Libya, cells replicating, a skyscraper being built, a pig’s life, a horse’s skeleton?”
