Sound recording in Senegal

January 3, 2019

In 2017 I organized a 3-week field recording expedition to Senegal. I wrote a blog post for ASFX but I forgot to mention it on my website, hence the very late blog post. Read about it on the A Sound Effect website.

You should also check out the sound effects library I put together using recordings I made on this trip.

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