Field Recording

Porto, Portugal

Some last rain drops on a sunny day, after days in a row of rain. Recorded in an abandoned and destroyed fabric in Porto, Freixo.

Field Recording: Porto. Rain Drops in Abandoned Fabric

Ruined Factory Taken by Nature, Portugal

Quiet Train Station Through Huge Ruined Factory, Portugal

Binaural Stealth Recording: Clock Store, Prague

Binaural Field Recording: Street Musicians with Small Crowd, Prague

What once was a successful, large ceramics factory with beautiful construction, ornaments, and an interior train track to deliver and get merchandise, is now slowly being engulfed by surrounding nature. On a very small town in the center of Portugal, just by a quiet old train station, we are lucky to have been the latest to take recordings of the place. This recording concerns the room we see in the picture. Recorded from the inside, already intertwined with the green vegetation.
Picture by Sérgio Miguel Silva.

Open Interiors of Abandoned Factory, Portugal

There are three main fields that have my most interest in field recording. Resonances of buildings is one of them. I look / hear for the resonance that assembles the impression I get when I visited the place. What is real?
Recording taken in Porto, a place called Freixo, in Portugal.
Picture by Sérgio Miguel Silva. http://tinyurl.com/zeh5t8a

Resonance Impressions of Ruined Factory, Porto

There are three main fields that have my most interest in field recording. Resonances of buildings is one of them. I look / hear for the resonance that assembles the impression I get when I visited the place. What is real?
Recording taken across the river looking at Porto and the famous iron bridge, in Portugal.
Picture by Sérgio Miguel Silva. http://tinyurl.com/hbgvwce

Resonance Impressions of Modern Transition across Ruins, Porto

Following the violent murder of George Floyd, protests against racism and police brutality started to take place in many other countries outside the USA and Portugal was no exception.
Bothered by this, in a populist movement, the ultra-right party leader, André Ventura (scum), organized a march in which he intended to prove that Portugal is not a racist country. ...

Weeks after in Lisbon, Bruno Candé, a black man, was shot dead in a racist crime by a man who had been threatening him for a while with racial slurs.

Political authorities failed to express their concerns about the structural racism in this country.

Recently about a dozen of people, anti-racist, politicians and activists, mostly women, received death threats against them and against their family. The threats' origin are attributed to the ultra-right nazi movement and are now under investigation.

As a response and in solidarity, Antifa protests were organised in Lisbon and Porto on this afternoon.

To honour Bruno Candé a minute of silence was done by everyone attending.

Antifa Protest in Porto, Portugal - 16th August 2020

nature field recordist
curator at earth.fm
sound designer

Field Recording: Porto. Rain Drops in Abandoned Fabric

melissapons