field recordings
what’s all this, then?
Field Recordings is a collaborative project created during the pandemic with some of our favourite recording artists, because being inspired during lockdown is a tall order.
Musicians were sent to Unyoked cabins armed with special recording devices to capture the sounds of nature, from cicadas to crunching leaves, rushing rivers and long grass. These became the basis for brand new pieces of music, which we collected into an EP.
why the wilderness?
We know that time alone in nature, exposed to different environments and perspectives, enhances creative flow and helps us come up with funky new ways of thinking.
But professional musicians spend a lot of time in dark, windowless recording booths and stuffy rehearsal spaces. Not ideal.
Field Recordings is the first step in our mission to eventually make writing music in the wild as natural as doing so in a studio.
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alumni
Braille Face
“More opportunities like these are perfect. They remove all the systems we’re used to running on and get back to a primal sense of yourself and what’s around you. It's literally just going out there, hitting record and being surprised.”
Jonti
“It was really cool to actually create some my own sounds and in and be in that world because I'm always looking for those things. It felt very like I had a window wiper on in my brain where I could just really just focus.”
Ninajirachi
“The cicadas were mind-blowing! They very much stay in unison and this big symphony would just get louder and louder, to the point where you can sort of feel it in your eardrums. It was crazy.”
Las Mar
“I think there's pressure to be ‘on’ all the time these days, it's part of the sociological climate or something. But it doesn't work like that in my experience. I often find it's best to be deliberately unproductive.”
Ex-Olympian
“It’s really revitalising to have time away from your screens; to sit, listen to what’s around you and process things that have or are going on with your life. Without that time, it’s hard to really forge on and to create good work.”
Lucianblomkamp
“I think even the partial reason why I make so much music is because I feel very guilty. When I'm not making music. It's like, ‘Damn, I should do some more stuff.’ And I think there's something great about not even having the option to really work on something on a computer.”
Chloe Kae
“I went around and I mostly [recorded] at night. I feel like that's when nature was the most active. I’d just play with tree bark and things to get some texture. Every tree had a specific sound. I never really thought about that!”
Nick Franklin (Mastering)
“Man, I really enjoyed working on this. The nature sounds were even more evocative of the locations than I’d imagined.”