I found an article written by Michael Gallagher. It have a lot of information about field recording. He state a lot of details of why field receding aren’t realistic. He stated that there are four style of field recording: nature style, soundscape style, acousmatic style and sound arts style. He argue that how field recording is representational, particularly in the soundscape and nature styles. Then he stated that field recording is performative.
In the recording process, the texture of the recording medium is shaped through an ensemble performance involving various human and more-than-human actants: the vibrations in the environment being recorded; its acoustic qualities of reflection and absorption; the recording apparatus of microphones, cables, preamplifiers, electrical currents, memory cards, batteries, and headphones;and the recordist’s ears, hands, and eyes. All of these forces and machines function together in a carefully orchestrated arrangement.
Micheal Gallagher, Field recording and the sounding of spaces, pp. 568
And how playback field recording is creating a ‘hybrid space’ where mixed with the acoustic of playback location. Furthermore, he talked about how field recording is superimposition and it related to political economy which I can’t include in my audio paper.