"with no noisy bump, I know that the seabed here must be more than nine meters below me. I adjust the cables so that they hang securely apart at a distance, set levels and settle into listening." www.anoisysilence.com/post/swanage... #contemplativelistening #mindfulness #soundart #fieldrecording
November 4, 2025 at 6:31 PM
"with no noisy bump, I know that the seabed here must be more than nine meters below me. I adjust the cables so that they hang securely apart at a distance, set levels and settle into listening." www.anoisysilence.com/post/swanage... #contemplativelistening #mindfulness #soundart #fieldrecording
I felt slightly out of place in Mayfair, ringing the doorbell of Eskenazi in a hoodie, puffer and rucksack, but I was welcomed in and enjoyed spending half an hour with Li Huayi's beautiful, shimmering 'Trees and mountains on gold and silver' collection.
November 4, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I felt slightly out of place in Mayfair, ringing the doorbell of Eskenazi in a hoodie, puffer and rucksack, but I was welcomed in and enjoyed spending half an hour with Li Huayi's beautiful, shimmering 'Trees and mountains on gold and silver' collection.
Vibrant colours, strong forms brimming with power and reference, combined beautifully with a soundtrack of jazz/dub/reggae. Just a bit weird hearing massive sound systems sound like a home hifi at a dinner party! Peter Doig at the Serpentine.
November 3, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Vibrant colours, strong forms brimming with power and reference, combined beautifully with a soundtrack of jazz/dub/reggae. Just a bit weird hearing massive sound systems sound like a home hifi at a dinner party! Peter Doig at the Serpentine.
"...the inherent sonic qualities of its thin plastic shell randomly knocking against the immovable mass of the church, would likely always feel like a feeble imposition, rather than an honouring of its history and quiet authority." #fieldrecording #contemplation www.anoisysilence.com/post/soundin...
October 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM
"...the inherent sonic qualities of its thin plastic shell randomly knocking against the immovable mass of the church, would likely always feel like a feeble imposition, rather than an honouring of its history and quiet authority." #fieldrecording #contemplation www.anoisysilence.com/post/soundin...
25 mixes to soundtrack [the whole of] your Saturday night: www.anoisysilence.com/mixes (or directly through www.mixcloud.com/a_noisy_sile...)
mixes | a noisy silence
Opening a space for listening that is simultaneously familiar and enigmatic, vast and intimate. a noisy silence mixes combine progressive ambient, field recording, experimental and folk-infused tunes ...
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September 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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
#contemplation #fieldrecording #ambientmusic #mindfulness
September 23, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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
#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.
September 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
#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
A Noisy Silence #25 Patter
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September 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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
Bunkfest Soundwalk
Working with, rather than against, the natural affordances of the mind-body and the soundscape, moves the practice of contemplative field recording in the direction of connection, flexibility and free...
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September 9, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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
September 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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...
August 1, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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-...
July 22, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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.
July 16, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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
July 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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.
July 1, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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.
July 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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
May 31, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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.
May 30, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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
May 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
"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
April 30, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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
April 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
"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...
Sweeping St Mary's
I placed the portable recorder on the communion rail, picked up the soft-bristled broom and began sweeping the chancel floor.
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April 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
"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
March 25, 2025 at 6:31 PM
'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
March 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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
March 19, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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