
S02E08 - Room Tone
The quietest episode yet. (Pls. use Headphones) Room tone is the sound of a space when nothing is happening - the acoustic fingerprint that every room carries. It's what film sound recordists capture on set to make dialo

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Field recordings and reflections on listening. Documenting real spaces on the threshold between sound and silence.
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The quietest episode yet. (Pls. use Headphones) Room tone is the sound of a space when nothing is happening - the acoustic fingerprint that every room carries. It's what film sound recordists capture on set to make dialo

In this episode, I invite you into my studio in Vienna on a stormy September morning. While heavy rain and wind rolled through the city, I prepared my daily tea session: Chinese sheng pu’er, brewed in the mindful way of

In this episode, we delve into the quiet nature sounds of a Sunday morning from our cozy little house tucked away in the mountains of Austria.The early morning was bathed in the glow of a full moon, accompanied by a gent

Episode 5 of Season 2 explores how sound behaves in enclosed, moving spaces. Featuring field recordings from three different trains: a dampened carriage from Sarajevo to Mostar, an early morning tram in Prague, and the s

A winter night recording from Vienna's Wienerberg - an elevated plateau where the city reveals its acoustic wholeness. From 60 meters above, all those individual sounds of urban life - traffic, heating systems, distant c

You know those winter mornings when everything feels impossibly quiet? This episode captures one of those rare moments - a Sunday morning recording from the Austrian mountainside after fresh snowfall. Snow acts like natu

Those hidden pockets scattered throughout cities - spaces where the public-facing world blends into the private lives of people. This episode explores three different backyards at different times of the day, in different

Field recordings from a fourth-floor window in Vienna, where city sounds bounce between walls and gradually fade. Three recordings from the same courtyard show how the acoustic character of a space changes throughout the

A new season of field recordings is coming up. This time it's all about: The Sound of Space. I will share selected recordings from the last few years where you can experience minimal natural soundfields, for listening, r

For the last Episode of the season we'll enjoy busy street sounds from a crowded early morning market in Yangon Myanmar's Chinatown. The vendors are selling all kind of exotic and unfamiliar fruits and vegetables as well

Today’s episode is a tranquil soundscapes on the countryside of Portugal. I recorded those near Torres Novas a little town north of Lisbon. There are early morning soundscapes mingled with some thunderstorms and a nightl

Today we're headed back to Nepal, to a little village called Bandipur. I stayed for a few nights at a cozy family run guesthouse which sat atop a hill. The view from there was magical. From my balcony I had a panoramic v

This episode is a mix of the sounds I collected while walking through the medina in Tanger, Morocoo. It's a shop owner playing old vinyl records, the local kid gang playing on the streets, and of course the call for pray

When going through my archives the other day I noticed how many of my Field Recordings, both in the City and out in the Countryside have the sounds of animals in them. Birds take center stage and are especially prominent

While exploring Kathmandu, one of the guesthouses where I stayed was cornered by 3 Tibetan Monasteries. Luckily I am an early riser, because each day, as the sun rose, the monks would begin their daily meditation with dr

In this Episode we will walk through a bazar in the beautiful old Medina of Fes in Morocco.

Granada is a magical and amazingly lively place. People love to go out for dinner, enjoy tapas, and laugh and spend time with their friends. The beautiful and quaint streets and taverns are brought to life by wandering s

Eager to get away from the grit of Kathmandu I took a bus south to a tiny village called Pharping. It's a quiet town with only a few small shops, local restaurants and two or three guesthouses. Despite that, I was surpri

In today's Episode we wander throught the Streets of Boudhanath in eastern Kathmandu, Nepal. Lots of Buddhists and Tibetan Refugees live here, so it kinda became a pilgrimage place. So in this Episode we will listen to a

Today's episode is going to be peaceful. An early morning walk around the beautiful Phewa Lake in Pokhara, Nepal. The city has yet to awaken, whereas nature already has.
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