Melissa Pons
@melissapons.bsky.social
nature field recordist in the countryside
curator earth.fm ///🌲🌾
sound designer @HemCreekProd
New release 'Of Wolves and People': https://nilsmosh.bandcamp.com/album/of-wolves-and-people-2
http://melissapons.com
curator earth.fm ///🌲🌾
sound designer @HemCreekProd
New release 'Of Wolves and People': https://nilsmosh.bandcamp.com/album/of-wolves-and-people-2
http://melissapons.com
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Melissa Pons
@melissapons.bsky.social
· Sep 4
Cliffs, Vultures & Cycles of Death, by melissa pons
13 track album
melissapons.bandcamp.com
Here's my latest work. Recorded in mountainous regions in Portugal, Spain and France. Spectacular acoustics with incredible creatures. Ravishing landscapes.
About the imminence and belonging of death as part of life.
melissapons.bandcamp.com/album/cliffs...
About the imminence and belonging of death as part of life.
melissapons.bandcamp.com/album/cliffs...
Editing my album on the red deer (Iberian & European), thinking of new beginnings (conjectured by a double rainbow) and preparing my field recording trip to S. America, I'm offering 30% discount on all and any purchase on bandcamp w/ code thankyou 💫
melissapons.bandcamp.com
earth.fm/recordings/i...
melissapons.bandcamp.com
earth.fm/recordings/i...
Iberian Red Deer in the Night - earth.fm
Red deer at mid distance in the rutting season. The night has fallen and everything seems to have gotten very quiet to listen or give space for this big animal. Its roars fill the space, a large area ...
earth.fm
November 18, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Editing my album on the red deer (Iberian & European), thinking of new beginnings (conjectured by a double rainbow) and preparing my field recording trip to S. America, I'm offering 30% discount on all and any purchase on bandcamp w/ code thankyou 💫
melissapons.bandcamp.com
earth.fm/recordings/i...
melissapons.bandcamp.com
earth.fm/recordings/i...
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New playlist, curated by @melissapons.bsky.social, Quiet Nocturnal Soundscapes
From frogs and insects, to the virtuoso nightingale and calm ocean shores, from different forest biomes, deserts and wetlands.
earth.fm/playlists/qu...
From frogs and insects, to the virtuoso nightingale and calm ocean shores, from different forest biomes, deserts and wetlands.
earth.fm/playlists/qu...
Quiet Nocturnal Soundscapes - earth.fm
Quiet Nocturnal Soundscapes is a playlist that invites the listeners to travel through the tranquil nights around the planet. From frogs and nocturnal insects, to the virtuoso nightingale and calm…
earth.fm
November 11, 2025 at 11:29 AM
New playlist, curated by @melissapons.bsky.social, Quiet Nocturnal Soundscapes
From frogs and insects, to the virtuoso nightingale and calm ocean shores, from different forest biomes, deserts and wetlands.
earth.fm/playlists/qu...
From frogs and insects, to the virtuoso nightingale and calm ocean shores, from different forest biomes, deserts and wetlands.
earth.fm/playlists/qu...
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If there's one thing I'd hope the music community learns from Leave Spotify it's this:
The signs were there for years but we acted too slow. Artists are broke. The LLM has its dataset for AI slop. Ek has made his billions and reinvested in AI+war. The damage is done.
Next time we must move faster.
The signs were there for years but we acted too slow. Artists are broke. The LLM has its dataset for AI slop. Ek has made his billions and reinvested in AI+war. The damage is done.
Next time we must move faster.
November 2, 2025 at 4:37 PM
If there's one thing I'd hope the music community learns from Leave Spotify it's this:
The signs were there for years but we acted too slow. Artists are broke. The LLM has its dataset for AI slop. Ek has made his billions and reinvested in AI+war. The damage is done.
Next time we must move faster.
The signs were there for years but we acted too slow. Artists are broke. The LLM has its dataset for AI slop. Ek has made his billions and reinvested in AI+war. The damage is done.
Next time we must move faster.
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My article about 'spooky' wildlife and some of their most gruesome and macabre behaviours, but also how to celebrate Halloween far more sustainably!
This also marks my 100th article for @aunz.theconversation.com 🎉 🥳.
theconversation.com/lets-celebra...
This also marks my 100th article for @aunz.theconversation.com 🎉 🥳.
theconversation.com/lets-celebra...
Let’s celebrate nature’s spookiest and freakiest animals this Halloween
From blood-squirting lizard eyes to zombie cockroaches, the natural world is ready for a truly terrifying Halloween.
theconversation.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:53 PM
My article about 'spooky' wildlife and some of their most gruesome and macabre behaviours, but also how to celebrate Halloween far more sustainably!
This also marks my 100th article for @aunz.theconversation.com 🎉 🥳.
theconversation.com/lets-celebra...
This also marks my 100th article for @aunz.theconversation.com 🎉 🥳.
theconversation.com/lets-celebra...
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These people are our enemies.
Exclusive: Universal Music Group signed a deal with artificial intelligence music generator Udio to launch a new platform trained on licensed songs, the companies said.
Universal Music Settles With AI Firm Udio
Udio agrees to launch a new subscription service for fans to create music based on licensed songs.
on.wsj.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:21 AM
These people are our enemies.
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Sharks absolutely get cancer, and people claiming otherwise are pseudoscientific grifters preying on the desperate.
Even if sharks did not get cancer, eating shark would not cure your cancer any more than eating LeBron James would make you better at basketball.
Even if sharks did not get cancer, eating shark would not cure your cancer any more than eating LeBron James would make you better at basketball.
October 30, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Sharks absolutely get cancer, and people claiming otherwise are pseudoscientific grifters preying on the desperate.
Even if sharks did not get cancer, eating shark would not cure your cancer any more than eating LeBron James would make you better at basketball.
Even if sharks did not get cancer, eating shark would not cure your cancer any more than eating LeBron James would make you better at basketball.
Fruition
nature field recordist
curator at earth.fm
sound designer
soundcloud.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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As I'm doing adjudication for an #audiodrama festival it's baffling how many are compressing the 🤬 out of their master that it sounds overbaked/crispy/distorted
Don't do that. You're ruining all your hard work of sound designing, #editing and #mixing by crisping the overall tone
Don't do that. You're ruining all your hard work of sound designing, #editing and #mixing by crisping the overall tone
October 29, 2025 at 7:58 PM
As I'm doing adjudication for an #audiodrama festival it's baffling how many are compressing the 🤬 out of their master that it sounds overbaked/crispy/distorted
Don't do that. You're ruining all your hard work of sound designing, #editing and #mixing by crisping the overall tone
Don't do that. You're ruining all your hard work of sound designing, #editing and #mixing by crisping the overall tone
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To philosophize in sound is to embrace withdrawal, to think not about the unsayable but from within it. #PhilSky
open.substack.com/pub/erwinott...
open.substack.com/pub/erwinott...
From the Philosophy of Sound to Philosophy in Sound: Christoph Cox’s "Sonic Flux" and the Via Negativa
The Problem of the Ephemeral
open.substack.com
October 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
To philosophize in sound is to embrace withdrawal, to think not about the unsayable but from within it. #PhilSky
open.substack.com/pub/erwinott...
open.substack.com/pub/erwinott...
Beautiful
#RedPlanet next up it’s Mike Majkowski #Part1 #edit + new #experimental record out now on @room40.bsky.social + #NP WSUM 91.7fm Madison
mikemajkowski.bandcamp.com/track/part-i...
mikemajkowski.bandcamp.com/track/part-i...
Part I (edit), by Mike Majkowski
from the album Tide
mikemajkowski.bandcamp.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Beautiful
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New on Earth.FM by @felixblume.bsky.social
"Aquatic recordings of grey dolphins calling and moving in (...) the river Tefé in the Amazonian rainforest in Brazil.
(...) I’ve waited and listened to the dolphins with Edinaldo and Janilson from the community of Tauary."
earth.fm/recordings/a...
"Aquatic recordings of grey dolphins calling and moving in (...) the river Tefé in the Amazonian rainforest in Brazil.
(...) I’ve waited and listened to the dolphins with Edinaldo and Janilson from the community of Tauary."
earth.fm/recordings/a...
Amazonian Dolphin - earth.fm
Aquatic recordings of grey dolphins calling and moving in the water of the river Tefé in the Amazonian rainforest in Brazil. On September 19th 2017, I’ve waited and listened to the dolphins with Edina...
earth.fm
October 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM
New on Earth.FM by @felixblume.bsky.social
"Aquatic recordings of grey dolphins calling and moving in (...) the river Tefé in the Amazonian rainforest in Brazil.
(...) I’ve waited and listened to the dolphins with Edinaldo and Janilson from the community of Tauary."
earth.fm/recordings/a...
"Aquatic recordings of grey dolphins calling and moving in (...) the river Tefé in the Amazonian rainforest in Brazil.
(...) I’ve waited and listened to the dolphins with Edinaldo and Janilson from the community of Tauary."
earth.fm/recordings/a...
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Quiet and lovely nocturnal sounds with mating calls of midwife toads and tawny owls 🌙
Recording by @melissapons.bsky.social
earth.fm/recordings/m...
Recording by @melissapons.bsky.social
earth.fm/recordings/m...
Midwife toads and tawny owls mating calls - earth.fm
A warm October evening in this region is when one is more likely to hear the midwife toad (Alytes) because, even though they can sing throughout the summer, here in Alentejo, the months between June…
earth.fm
October 24, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Quiet and lovely nocturnal sounds with mating calls of midwife toads and tawny owls 🌙
Recording by @melissapons.bsky.social
earth.fm/recordings/m...
Recording by @melissapons.bsky.social
earth.fm/recordings/m...
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New recording!
They are loud, they are acoustic engineers and builders: the mole cricket!
Field recording by @melissapons.bsky.social
earth.fm/recordings/m...
They are loud, they are acoustic engineers and builders: the mole cricket!
Field recording by @melissapons.bsky.social
earth.fm/recordings/m...
Mole Cricket - earth.fm
A loud, piercing and persistent sound like this is not easy to ignore. The mole cricket (Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa) is one of the loudest in the field. A small (3–5 cm), alien looking insect in the…
earth.fm
October 23, 2025 at 7:59 AM
New recording!
They are loud, they are acoustic engineers and builders: the mole cricket!
Field recording by @melissapons.bsky.social
earth.fm/recordings/m...
They are loud, they are acoustic engineers and builders: the mole cricket!
Field recording by @melissapons.bsky.social
earth.fm/recordings/m...
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Thank you, Serge! 🪐
Sound, nature, and memory.
A conversation with Earth.FM about recording bees, red deer, and preserving vanishing sonic identities.
Thanks to @melissapons.bsky.social & @earth-fm.bsky.social for the inspiring exchange. 🎧
earth.fm/podcast/inte...
#soundart #fieldrecording
A conversation with Earth.FM about recording bees, red deer, and preserving vanishing sonic identities.
Thanks to @melissapons.bsky.social & @earth-fm.bsky.social for the inspiring exchange. 🎧
earth.fm/podcast/inte...
#soundart #fieldrecording
Interview: Serge Bulat - earth.fm
“I welcome every noise around me. No matter what it is: a duck, a fish, a deer farting. […] You
earth.fm
October 15, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Thank you, Serge! 🪐
Tonight at 10pm (GMT+1) performances from sound art residency Endless Fields. 💫
With Cameron Randall, Iddo Aharony, Stefan Arrigoni M, Anna Clock, Tiago M C de Sousa, Ivo Louro, Melissa Pons, and Xavier Velastín.
www.resonancefm.com/schedule
With Cameron Randall, Iddo Aharony, Stefan Arrigoni M, Anna Clock, Tiago M C de Sousa, Ivo Louro, Melissa Pons, and Xavier Velastín.
www.resonancefm.com/schedule
Resonance FM | Schedules
www.resonancefm.com
October 13, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Tonight at 10pm (GMT+1) performances from sound art residency Endless Fields. 💫
With Cameron Randall, Iddo Aharony, Stefan Arrigoni M, Anna Clock, Tiago M C de Sousa, Ivo Louro, Melissa Pons, and Xavier Velastín.
www.resonancefm.com/schedule
With Cameron Randall, Iddo Aharony, Stefan Arrigoni M, Anna Clock, Tiago M C de Sousa, Ivo Louro, Melissa Pons, and Xavier Velastín.
www.resonancefm.com/schedule
💚
LOVING this new short and sweet piece from @melissapons.bsky.social
Also, Petit Bardo has releasing some incredible pieces lately
Also, Petit Bardo has releasing some incredible pieces lately
Sky, Earth, by Melissa Pons
1 track album
petitbardo.bandcamp.com
October 9, 2025 at 9:29 AM
💚
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🌏 New recording! - a rural soundscape from Yunnan, China in a wide and peaceful ranch in deep mountain and river valleys of Shangri-la.
Field recording by Yang Jie
earth.fm/recordings/s...
Field recording by Yang Jie
earth.fm/recordings/s...
Shangri-la Naotong Ranch - earth.fm
Naotong Ranch is a wide and peaceful ranch in deep mountain and river valleys of Shangri-la, China. It’s hard to to get there because there is only a very poor road by local Khampa Tibetan people.…
earth.fm
October 8, 2025 at 9:35 AM
🌏 New recording! - a rural soundscape from Yunnan, China in a wide and peaceful ranch in deep mountain and river valleys of Shangri-la.
Field recording by Yang Jie
earth.fm/recordings/s...
Field recording by Yang Jie
earth.fm/recordings/s...
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i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
apnews.com
October 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...
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Imperialism and racism are central to the capitalist world economy. The barbarism is a feature, not a bug.
August 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Imperialism and racism are central to the capitalist world economy. The barbarism is a feature, not a bug.
Hello birders!
Can you help me identify / decipher the red-billed chough calls on this track? Besides the flight call, there is some fantastic chatter (starting at 37 secs) and I'd like to understand more of it.
Thank you in advance!
melissapons.bandcamp.com/track/profus...
Can you help me identify / decipher the red-billed chough calls on this track? Besides the flight call, there is some fantastic chatter (starting at 37 secs) and I'd like to understand more of it.
Thank you in advance!
melissapons.bandcamp.com/track/profus...
Profuse Chatter, by melissa pons
from the album Cliffs, Vultures & Cycles of Death
melissapons.bandcamp.com
August 21, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Hello birders!
Can you help me identify / decipher the red-billed chough calls on this track? Besides the flight call, there is some fantastic chatter (starting at 37 secs) and I'd like to understand more of it.
Thank you in advance!
melissapons.bandcamp.com/track/profus...
Can you help me identify / decipher the red-billed chough calls on this track? Besides the flight call, there is some fantastic chatter (starting at 37 secs) and I'd like to understand more of it.
Thank you in advance!
melissapons.bandcamp.com/track/profus...
Help!
I just found this baby under my kitchen cabinets!
How can I help it?
I just found this baby under my kitchen cabinets!
How can I help it?
August 16, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Help!
I just found this baby under my kitchen cabinets!
How can I help it?
I just found this baby under my kitchen cabinets!
How can I help it?
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Texture is everything. Undoubtedly, a sound pertaining to hot weather. ☀️
Recording by @melissapons.bsky.social
earth.fm/recordings/c...
Recording by @melissapons.bsky.social
earth.fm/recordings/c...
Crepitating Summer Winds - earth.fm
The brushwood in the fields, punctuated by eye-catching oleander, unfriendly to walk in, shows what non-managed land can sound like in this region. It’s summer, it’s 2025 and the heat hovering almost…
earth.fm
August 6, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Texture is everything. Undoubtedly, a sound pertaining to hot weather. ☀️
Recording by @melissapons.bsky.social
earth.fm/recordings/c...
Recording by @melissapons.bsky.social
earth.fm/recordings/c...