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Field Recordings

Field Recordings

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 A podcast where audio-makers stand silently in fields (or things that could be broadly interpreted as fields). Social Sciences Travel Writing & Commentary
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  • Blackbird singing in the dead of night, London, UK on 9th March 2026 at 3.50am – by Eleanor McDowall

    Blackbird singing in the dead of night, London, UK on 9th March 2026 at 3.50am – by Eleanor McDowall
    Mar 11 2026

    “For the past month I keep being woken up around 4am by (what I think is) an exuberant blackbird. Finding myself awake in the early hours, I’ve been reading about their nighttime singing on birdforum.net (which is honestly delightful). As the seasons change and the light shifts, apparently they can often be heard doing ‘midnight serenades’. Two nights ago I had my recording equipment out for an interview the next day, so when I woke up I went and stood in my flat’s stairwell, listening to the singing in my pyjamas and a big coat.”
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    4 mins
  • Frozen pool, London, UK on the morning of 4th January 2026 – by Rose de Larrabeiti and Eleanor McDowall

    Frozen pool, London, UK on the morning of 4th January 2026 – by Rose de Larrabeiti and Eleanor McDowall
    Mar 11 2026

    “At the beginning of the year the ponds in the park near where we live froze over. One morning we took a hydrophone to a shallow, frozen reflecting pool – pushing the microphone through a hole in the ice. You can hear tinkling fragments, squeaky creaks and the sound of us taking turns to throw large blocks of ice across the frozen surface. Next to us a little boy was having fun smashing a tree branch into the pool, so we gave him the headphones and told him to make a bit of chaos…”
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    5 mins
  • Convoy of Snowplows during the blizzard, Harlem, NYC, USA in late February 2026 – by Will Coley

    Convoy of Snowplows during the blizzard, Harlem, NYC, USA in late February 2026 – by Will Coley
    Feb 23 2026
    1 min
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