9 Great Websites to Find Relaxing Nature Recordings
Whether you’re in need of some relaxing, peaceful soundscapes, or searching for source audio to sample, these website have you covered.
Whether you’re in need of some relaxing, peaceful soundscapes, or searching for source audio to sample, these website have you covered.
In this edition of Student Spotlight, we dive deep into the nature-inspired synth and field recording work of Alexis Walter Blaess.
As affordable and innovative as computers have become artists today might still enjoy recording music on some analog alternatives, here’s why.
Last month, I challenged myself to make a track using captured sounds from the golf course. Listen to my track and learn about my process here.
*Editor’s Note: I interviewed Bernie Krause for BESIDE Magazine’s second issue exactly a year ago, and it has become dramatically evident that a lot has changed since we last spoke. In preparing for this repost, we contacted Krause to request his permission to run this piece and his response floored us, sending uncontrollable tears down my face […]
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Hydrophones enable us to record underwater, which is reason enough to worship and adore them. Better still, you can make your own very easily and cheaply. For the Canal Music tour (in 2009), I wanted to make myself a new hydrophone which included the pre-amp I made here. I have made hydrophones using piezo elements before, but […]
+ Master the tools and techniques of producing pro-level electronic music and audio in Ableton Live with Soundfly’s course, Intro to Music Production in Ableton Live. By Niall McCallum There’s never been a better time to get into beat making. Editing software and audio processing tools are better, cheaper, and more readily available than ever before. Not […]
By Marihiko Hara I love how time flows in Kyoto, not too rapidly and not too slowly. A five minute walk will lead me through streets, temples, and gardens, where I can feel that I am in ancient spaces. To know where I stand, all I have to do is find out which direction points north. […]