After many months of recording, listening, editing and species IDing I can finally say the African Wild West library is complete. You can check it out in all its glory on my website or at A Sound Effect. I also wrote a pretty lengthy trip diary for ASFX, so if you're a fan of long reads check it out: https://www.asoundeffect.com/senegal-sound-recording/
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Happy Holidays from George Vlad and Mindful Audio!
Read MoreQuick dispatch from Dakar
I'm in a hotel room in Dakar waiting to catch my flight back to London. I spent the last three weeks traveling and recording around Senegal accompanied by my friend Matt and with the help of local guide Youssou Badji.
Read MoreField recording trip to Wales
It rained.
Read MoreTonebenders episode about my trip to Africa
I recently wrote a fairly lengthy blog post about my trip to South Africa last year. Earlier this year I also recorded a podcast episode about this (together with Daan Hendriks) for the Tonebenders. If you haven't heard about them go and check out their podcast archive. I've been listening to them ever since the first episode and prior to that I used to read Rene and Tim's blogs. If you have any interest in field recording, sound design or audio post I'm sure you'll love their work.
Coincidentally they just released the episode we recorded, which you can hear on their website. Enjoy: http://tonebenderspodcast.com/06-field-recording-in-south-africa/
Field recording trip to South Africa - 2016
Last year I had the pleasure of attending Sonic Mmabolela, an annual workshop/residency for sound recordists, sound artists, composers and other audio professionals that takes place in a remote place on the border between South Africa and Botswana.
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Field recording trip to Romania - April 2017
I spent the entire month of April this year field recording around Romania. At the moment I'm planning another trip there so I have to go through all my recordings to clear my backlog before leaving again. Easier said than done, that's for sure.
Read MoreBucker Bu-131 with pilot Anna
Recording aircraft
Living around London means being subjected to an almost endless barrage of aircraft noise every day. A wise man once told me that if something is ruining my recordings, I should try and record it instead. As a consequence a few months ago I started scouting airfields for recording opportunities.
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