I hit the RECORD button and I start to hurt – but most of that is probably just in my head.
Sitting quietly should make me calm, should relax me, but instead I usually tense up when making a field recording. My goal is to remove my sonic self from the world while capturing the sounds around me. I view myself as a ghost, as a watcher, as an instrument of collection. My goal is to have a pristine record of what it would sound like if I weren’t there.
But I am there, and I make noise. We all do, and more often than not we barely even realize it. Continue reading
Phonomnesis 