Conceptual and a more thoughtful approach on how to take field recordings.Training ones ears to understand the motivations behind sound and how they effect us, both collectively and personally. Methods of listening can be likened to meditation. The difference between noises that are impersonal to us and others that have meaning, whether that is emotionally or physically (such as a rooster’s call signifying the break of dawn). This idea of sonic presence. Immersion.
This idea of presence in sound creates a more profound emotional response as opposed to a visual image recording as our senses are always working together
Bob Watts once said he got good art ideas only in the country in “Tree Painting” he left color markers dangling from branches of a tree and just grazing a large sheet of white paper on the grass below at his farm in Pennsylvania. He would set this up one day, then drive off in his Citroën Mehari and return the next morning to harvest the art.
This idea of cross pollinating creative practice with physical subjects, such as nature. Perceived as random but also as the expression of a certain organism(s), whether conscious of their output or not. It reminds of a quote I once heard by the poet David Whyte – ‘The conversational nature of reality’
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