field recording
Audio from outdoors
Field recording is audio captured outside a studio, typically of natural or environmental sounds: birdsong, city traffic, rainfall, industrial machinery.
The practice serves documentary purposes, musical sampling, film sound design, and acoustic ecology research.
Field recordings preserve sonic environments that might otherwise go unheard or disappear: She spent months making field recordings of vanishing rainforest soundscapes.
- ambientOf the surroundings
- nature soundsAudio from outdoors
- microphoneAudio input device
- locationPosition in space
- natureInherent quality or disposition
soundscape · dawn chorus · birdsong · capture · documentary · wind · portable · stereo · wildlife · atmosphere · tape · on location · outdoor · environmental · hydrophone · binaural · raw · authentic
- audiosound, headphones, audio track, volume control, noise
- audio mediavinyl, LP, CD, cassette, 8-track
- archaeologyexcavation, dig site, archaeologist, dig, archaeological digs
- Audio Recordingtape, cassette, cassette tape, reel-to-reel, magnetic tape
- audio recordingscassette, audio cassette, reel-to-reel, eight-track, demo tape
- soundscapessoundscape, soundscapes, ambient noise, nature sounds, ambient sound