How can field recording make a difference for conservation and environmental causes? I get this question a lot, and one of the answers is here. Once a year I team up with Thomas Rex Beverly and Andy Martin to raise money for environmental NGOs.
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GV x Google for Sound Matters
Over the past year I had the immense pleasure of working with Google again on Phase 2 of the Sound Matters project. I am finally back in the studio and I can talk a little bit about our work.
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Defining and redefining terms in field recording
Field recording isn’t a very new discipline but it’s not been around for as long as photography or other arts. Consequently there is still a lot of room for innovation and creativity, and a lot of common concepts can be very vaguely defined. Let’s take a look at some of these.
Read MoreGV soundscape on Aeon essays
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Earth FM interview with George Vlad
Earth FM’s Melissa interviews George Vlad.
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Long-form listening
How long is a dawn chorus? How about a thunderstorm? Can you capture the essence of a soundscape in a few minutes, or do you need more than that to accurately portray such natural phenomena? Does it matter if you only listen for a few seconds or minutes? Important questions worth exploring.
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Wildscreen and a few cool films
Last week I spent a few lovely days in Bristol attending Wildscreen film festival. It was my first time at Wildscreen and I had a chance to hang out with some very cool people who work on natural history productions.
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32-bit field recording
While it has recently gained popularity, 32-bit float workflows have been around for a while. Let’s have a look at the advantages, disadvantages and requirements of this popular approach.
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