By Jem Finer, Score For A Hole In The Ground is an aleatoric musical instrument that uses nature to play water drips onto tuned percussion at the bottom of a large resonant cavity dug into English woodlands, amplified and released to the surface by a large steel horn, reminiscent of old gramophone horns.
http://www.scoreforaholeintheground.org/
At the Smart Internet CRC, the ICE project provides surround sound voice communication linked to virtual environments.
One of the key investigators, and member of the management team: D. Economou
Also of note, check out the Digital Content R&D Initiative blog/wiki
Edirol R-1 - useful as a solid state MD recorder replacement - currently available for about US$400, it has plug-in power mic input socket, but not phantom power pro inputs…
…if you want those you need to go more upmarket
- like the Marantz PMD660 available down to US$499…
- or go all the way to the Nagra range - some of which are even becoming quite affordable! - such as the Ares M or Ares PII+.
M-Audio Microtrack is US$499 rrp
web surfing notes on field recording
In a Proaudio Asia article, Greg Simmons says:
‘I’ve always admired field-recording pioneers like David Lewiston and Alan Lomax,’ says Simmons.
April 2005 Nagra News has articles by:
Frank Schreiner - tv/film recording engineer
Chris Watson - documentary film recordist - records army ants and bees, etc, using interesting ultrasensitive transducers
Gérard Beuchat -recorded treks in Kilimanjaro
Chris Watson is an interesting character, a founding member of Cabaret Voltaire, also worked with Hafler Trio, KK.Null, Z’EV, and others, has done an invisible jukebox in the wire, also an eminent field recordist who worked for David Attenborough.
There is also the radio show fieldwork on 2ser in sydney, which has a website with lots of info about field recordings.