Out Standing in the Field: The Art of Recording the Natural World
Some of the best music is none at all. Great phonographers (that's a real word) go to great lengths to bring us sounds of the earth.

The quest for the perfect natural sounds, from ambient to animal, has created a highly-motivated community, requiring command of both artistic and technical skills.  It's not quite a cult, but the field has achieved cult status in some circles, even appearing as a regular program at one time on London's "first radio art station," Resonance 104.4 fm.

The April 2003 issue of Electronic Musician magazine provides an in-depth article and technical notes on how it's done. (Most of us might just want to explore the work of some of the noted practitioners they mention.)


Link to Electronic Musician article

Link to sites at Phonography.org or Wild Sanctuary ("the voice of the natural world")

Link to Resonance 104.4 fm