Field Recording

A recording of cows pasturing with the sound of their bells that I consider some of the most beautiful things I've heard in Montalegre. Recorded with a QuadMic, this is a XY technique. We can also hear various birds in the background and some mosquitoes.

Cows Pasturing, 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

Abandoned Beautiful Factory surrounded by Nature. By the River.
Another day of field recordings for the documentary Iterance.

Abandoned Beautiful Factory Surrounded by Nature, Portugal

Ruined Factory Taken by Nature, Portugal

Quiet Train Station Through Huge Ruined Factory, Portugal

quiet summer forest night - Hållsviken, Sweden

Stockholm continues to fascinate me by the tremendous diversity of people that live or are here. In one minute walking around the town, we listen to many languages, various ways of walking and different moods. Although it has been a fairly warm Winter for Stockholm, I wonder if through listening one can have the sensation of humidity left by the recent snow, already melted and taken away. Recorded at around 6 pm, in the center of Drottninggatan, one of the most populated commercial streets of central Stockholm.

binaural sound walk - Drottninggatan, Stockholm

Binaural Stealth Recording: Clock Store, Prague

Binaural Field Recording: Street Musicians with Small Crowd, Prague

Little street in Sevilla, Spain. Soothing and beautifully sounding.

Calle Regina, Sevilla, Spain

Calm and amusing Sunday afternoon in the old town of Seville, Spain. Recorded with a Zoom H4n.

Amusing Street Musicians in Sevilla

A blind man enters one metro station in Lisbon with a can and a spoon, and his cane and starts making music while walking along the station. Glad I had the Zoom.

Blind Man Percussion at Metro Station in Lisbon

Anglican congregation on a Sunday morning at Calle Relator. Taken discretely from the outside hall with a Zoom H4n. Image shifting in the middle due to having to appear as a mere curious tourist. Unfortunately cannot find the origin of this chant, where anglican tradicional songs seem to be the more or less common hymns. Anyone?

Iglesia De San Basilio Chant, Sevilla, Spain

If I was to make a sound map of Seville, this recording would absolutely be on it. Not so shy birds happily chirping on just one tree, almost exotic feeling, with typical european big church bells on the background. A mix of heavy Europe with almost north-african hot weather. On a Sunday morning, where some people are enjoying breakfast outside, after one long warm night having beers and enjoying their friends company.  

Birds chirping on one tree, church bell - Seville, Spain

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

Train Passing on Small Station, Taken Inside Old Ruined Factory Surrounded by Nature, 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

And another day in Seville we discovered a great guitar player on the street that we enjoyed for a while, just where horses were resting. If it wouldn´t have been for the small amplification, maybe this could have sounded like in another time?

Flamenco Guitar Player and Horses at the Lion´s Gate, Sevilla

Nuno Barroso singing at his metallurgic facility while working. Loop-able, edited and mixed for audiovisual presentation with photography.

Singing at the Factory

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Field Recording

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