The book written by Cathy Lan and Angus Carlyle interviewed a lot field recordists. It is interesting to see different field recordists has different perspective, practice and methods in field recording. In this book, I discover a lot of other field recordists. Then I found Francisco Lopez practice is basically reflecting what I’m doing in the audio paper. He said in the interview when Cathy Lane asked him why him interested in field recording: ’I’m interested in the exploration of sonic reality… and field recording is a creative way of interacting with reality, rather than representing reality’.
I disscover Manuela Barile when I am reading the book(which I still reading it). Her practice is interesting. She like to use her voice as she is a singer and she mix field recording in a vocal practice. And she said she is looking for something that she feel is unique and which allows her the possibility of transmitting something of her perception about the world when she is looking for sound in the field; something that feels coherent and faithful to what she want to represent. It seems field recording are not just want to capture the soundscape or a sound sources, field recording is about the recordist experience since we can’t capture the whole soundscape. It is more the recordist experience rather than recreate(replaying) the experience to the audiences. The audience sonic experience while listen the a soundscape composition is a creation of the artists. It is more composing rather documenting.