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On an otherwise unremarkable autumn day in 1940, in the sleepy Delta town of Drew, Miss., 12-year-old Ora Dell Graham sang into a disc-cutting machine that recorded her voice. She recited a jump-rope ...

Digital audio equipment and software maker Apogee on Tuesday announced the debut of MetaRecorder, an iOS field recording app with advanced features like multi-track support, tagging, file management ...

You return from a long day reporting in the field — only to realize you didn't record ambience. You're in the middle of a reporting trip and you've forgotten extra batteries for your recorder. You're ...

If you are in the market for a professional field recording mixer you might be interested to know that IK Multimedia of this month introduced their new four input mixer in the form of the iRig Pro ...

The sun was high when musician Son Little arrived at Anderson Park on the campus of the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado. While looking for a shady place to capture this Field Recording, we trekked ...

Ambient music can feel left-field and unfamiliar. It often abandons the tropes people use to define music in the first place—beats, hooks, vocals, or even a time signature (though to make it more ...

Room 414 of the Sheraton Gunter looks like most every other hotel room downtown — a decent TV, a polite color scheme, lamps with on-switches that I can never find. But 78 years ago, Room 414 became a ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Field sound recordings are an indispensable source of data for ethnomusicologists. However, to my knowledge there are no standards or ...