25 mixes to soundtrack [the whole of] your Saturday night: www.anoisysilence.com/mixes (or directly through www.mixcloud.com/a_noisy_sile...)

A repeated light tapping of the way someone talks (listen for more info). New mix. Best enjoyed lying down: www.mixcloud.com/a_noisy_sile... #contemplation #fieldrecording #ambientmusic #mindfulness

#contemplativephotography One of the many things I’ll keep with me from a beautifully playful retreat with friend and dharma teacher Susanne Olbrich last weekend.

A new offering, mixing sound[walk]scapes with ambient, experimental, field recording and improvisation. www.mixcloud.com/a_noi.../a-n... #mindfullistening

Rolling with distraction. A #soundwalk through BunkFest 2025 in #wallingford. New #contemplative #fieldrecording blog here: www.anoisysilence.com/post/bunkfes... #phonography #mindfulness #soundwalking

Where the video gives speed the #LOM #geophone adds power. Shortening a journey from Montparnasse to Saint Jean de Luz on @sncf-voyageurs.bsky.social #TGV

Taking a break from socials for a few weeks. I'll leave you with the sound of a metal groyne sounded by the waves and recorded by draping two hydrophones over it. Take care folks...

Creative live recording (singing into a font is a first!) for Sarah Lambert-Gates' work responding to #Cookham Abbey. Lovely to capture archeologist Lucy-Anne Taylor playing her replica bone flute from the site and work alongside Olga Dikajee. More info here: www.cookhamabbey.org.uk/event/river-...

Great buzz in the the studio this morning, recording voiceovers for Nature Nurture with Chris Mitchell, Emma, Fayez, Fern and Toby of Rabble Theatre. All sorts of wild animals were brought to life, including 'street' Hedgehogs, cockney Robins and a rather softly spoken Goldcrest.

Enjoyed the cool and shade of the woodlands at The Cowsey in Reading for our #wellbeing #soundwalk last Friday. A grounding meditation followed by a soundwalk using #fieldrecording to help us focus on the #soundscape and our presence in it. www.anoisysilence.com/soundwalks

Always a pleasure to work with Nature Nurture CIC this time at Reading Waterfest. The tent offered some very welcome shade for passersby who got stuck in to painting watery wildlife, while I invited visitors to test-out our #WebOfLifeQuest game.

A scorchingly hot, but thoroughly enjoyable visit to the little-known Kennet Island Wildlife Conservation Area in Reading and the [in]famous 'Shitty Ditch' with Elis Bentley and local history-buff David Turner.

Fascinating, enveloping, challenging performances last night, with sound being coaxed from objects and machines with real sensitivity to the space and their new partners-in-sound for the evening. #soundart

Sunlight exposes layers of watercolour that add depth to the shallows. The first silent washes of fish and dragonfly lay down a base coat on which blue tit, blackcap and foliage perch.

"There can grow a confidence in navigating our relationships silently... enjoying the depth of connection that can come when we do not reduce the world to words." New blog post: www.anoisysilence.com/post/winterb... #fieldrecording #contemplation #soundwalk #wallingforduk #mindfulness

Wood Street, Wallingford, UK

"I left the dustpan and handbrush where I had found it, recorded a further moment or two of stillness, before halting the recording to sit and type these rememberings into my phone..." www.anoisysilence.com/post/sweepin... #fieldrecording #contemplation #sweeping #mindfulness

"Although the church stands battered, bruised and mildly neglected, its otherness and seeming lack of purpose spoke to me of uncommon, underrepresented values - the usefulness of the useless." Getting back-to-the-broom again! www.anoisysilence.com/post/sweepin...

'scatter' make of that what you will. Listen here: www.mixcloud.com/a_noisy_sile... #contemplation #fieldrecording #ambientmusic #mindfulness

29 minutes and 59 seconds of sensitively crafted ambient-field-recording-experimental-folkiness. Care-full listening on headphones recommended: www.mixcloud.com/a_noisy_sile... #contemplation #fieldrecording #mindfulness #ambient

What a privilege to handle this beautiful kestrel - a wonder of nature! Part of a wild day-out with Nature Nurture, @hiveit.co.uk and @knowlewestmedia.bsky.social and even got to do a bit of sound for film with Manifest Film All thanks to #DigitalCatapult @innovateuk.bsky.social

Blog post #5 #GeorgesPerec, #kevinboniface, sense foraging and the power of the infra-ordinary. www.anoisysilence.com/post/another... #fieldrecording #paris

Finding myself in Paris exactly 50 years after Georges Perec wrote 'An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris,' I headed to Place Saint-Sulpice, ordered a coffee and set about noticing "...what happens when nothing happens." www.anoisysilence.com/post/another... #fieldrecording #georgesperec #paris

What a focused and creative group of young people at @knowlewestmedia.bsky.social's Soundwave(+). A genuine pleasure to be working on Web Of Life Quest #gamemusic with them. #BristolUK - you still still got it! #digitalcatapult @innovateuk.bsky.social

The tape wow drone of train motors leaving the platform, escalators screech and whimper for attention, matters repeatedly ignored by the announcer, whose only interest is the timely delivery of [un]timely news.

In part two of this post on care-full listening, I explore more similarities between listening at the hospital and listening in the field... www.anoisysilence.com/post/care-fu... #listening #contemplation #fieldrecording #Mindfulness Art work pictured from an installation with artist Mark Langley

Dawdling as nonviolent resistance…mix #23 listen here: www.mixcloud.com/a_noisy_sile... #contemplation #fieldrecording #ambientmusic #musicandmindfulness

An opportunity to rest, recharge and dawdle a bit: www.mixcloud.com/a_noisy_sile... #contemplation #fieldrecording #ambientmusic #musicandmindfulness

Last Friday, Nature Nurture team and Aki from Digital Catapult visited Hive IT HQ in Sheffield for hands on workshops. We developed key user personas and refined our game loop, emphasising teamwork and user focus. Enjoy our group photo with our mini ‘Web of Life Quest’ game and some biscuits! 😂

Train to Sheffield, hiking across sod and stone, Ecologies card games by the fire and a day closing-in on double diamond design with our friends at #NatureNurtureCIC and @hiveit.co.uk Our 'Web of Life Quest' is slowly taking shape! #digitalcatapult

22 mixes featuring field recordists, folk singers and a whole host of sonic explorers... www.anoisysilence.com/mixes. If you think your work would sit nicely in these mixes, do send it over ([email protected])

Delicate, shifting drones provide a base from which you can venture out into soundworlds both familiar and alien. Beautifully recorded and sensitively structured work from friend @manjaristic.bsky.social Listen here: manjaristic.bandcamp.com/album/genesis

Are you 'nesh'? I hadn't heard of this word until Sunday night, but thought it was an apt title for this wintery musical offering (and me if I'm honest!)... www.mixcloud.com/a_noisy_sile... #Contemplation #fieldrecording #ambientmusic #mindfulness

A warming winter mix of crackling crustaceans, tape tampering, digital droplets and vicarious vocals. Lie back and listen...https://www.mixcloud.com/a_noisy_silence/a-noisy-silence-21-nesh-richard-bentley/

During the COVID-19 pandemic, with the insecurities of hourly-paid university lecturing becoming increasingly evident, I found myself searching for a different path... www.anoisysilence.com/post/care-fu... #fieldrecording #contemplation #mindfulness #wellbeing #soundart

Folk melodies drift on thick layers of snow and ice, the soundtrack to a winter’s night walk... www.mixcloud.com/a_noisy_sile... #contemplation #fieldrecording #ambient #mindfulness

A rather lean and healthy post-festive offering of #fieldrecording, #folkmusic, #ambient #electronica and #drone. Best listened to with your headphones on, eyes closed and with as much clear headspace as you can muster! www.mixcloud.com/a_noisy_sile... #mindfulness #contemplation #experimentalmusic

I'm always eager to hear what Michael Tanner (Plinth) is listening to and inspired by. A beautifully curated "collection of hymns, carols, folk standards and field-recordings from the past 800 years" to welcome in the northern hemisphere's 'tilt towards the sun'. www.mixcloud.com/folkradiouk/...

One of those special moments in field recording when thunder provides an expansive backdrop to local musicians rehearsing in Ubiarco, N. Spain. Hear more here: www.mixcloud.com/framework_ra... #fieldrecording #contemplation #mindfulness

Some images from Santillana, Ubiarco and Playa de Santa Justa where these field recordings were made: www.mixcloud.com/framework_ra... #fieldrecording #contemplation #mindfulness

Woke up this cold, wet December Monday with the all-too-familiar Trump 2.0 nausea. Scrolling through bsky’s #fieldrecording I came upon a link to a wonderful website that was truly calming and restorative. It’s simple, kind, slow and meaningful. Check it out. Listen. @anoisysilence.bsky.social

A hermitage, nestled on the clifftop above Playa de Santa Justa, inspired me to explore this beautifully lush part of Northern Spain. A privilage to feature on Framework Radio. I hope you enjoy listening... #fieldrecording #contemplation #mindfulness #mentalhealth www.mixcloud.com/framework_ra...

The researchers use the excuse that studying birdsong in vineyards is important because it is the "fastest growing agricultural industry" but can’t help wondering whether there isn't an ulterior motive! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"I’ve never been able to escape a sense that my experience of meaning and fulfilment is bound up with what could be called the spiritual life..." Exploring field recording as a contemplative practice. www.anoisysilence.com/post/spiritu... #fieldrecording #contemplation #mindfulness #spirituality

The latest update from investigations into sound and community wellbeing from The Engine Room Sound Laboratory: sounding sale signs, local clay singing with soundscapes and punk portraits from local artist Jimmy Yoder. #soundart #communityarts #mentalhealth #wellbeing

I’m not one for wearing my heart on my sleeve in posts, but this feels important. I'm starting a blog about contemplative field recording. The story begins with an ending - that of my FE teaching career… #mentalhealth #fieldrecording #contemplation #mindfulness www.anoisysilence.com/post/contemp...

I'm not sure whether this is unfair on Rousseau or strangely accurate, but I'm reading his 'Reveries of the Solitary Walker' and can't help imagining him as Thomas Thorne (BBC Ghosts).

Dropped my eldest back off at uni on Sunday and we managed to catch the last hour of the last day of this exhibition of Li Jin’s work, mostly pieces lent to the Ashmolean by Roger Law of Spitting Image fame. Not your typical Chinese ink paintings! No surprise that I loved this serenely curious monk…

"No geniuses ‘created' music. They merely closed their ears to meaning and just listened humbly to silence, which has existed from time immortal." Shuntaro Tanikawa, may you continue beautifully with a smile and a cheeky wink. www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...

A new mix featuring Akio Suzuki, angel in, Ulla, Dan Rothberger, @simonwhetham, Manja Ristic and Mark Vernon, Pefkin, Crys Cole and tides. www.mixcloud.com/a_noisy_sile... #ambientmusic #experimentalmusic