Field Recording

Field Recording is the ethnographic practice of collecting information about a social setting or situation, doubling its context in realtime. It's the listening of local fields, processing global information.



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Earlier this year, things were too grusome to behold for this artist - The Field had been double-tracked into part of an almost Betrayal Environment. These lyrics are an answer to that, and a brief sideways look to what was thought but now needs to be said.

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a posed formation of representative individuals in a brightly-coloured room
reflection of a man looking sideways, in a mirror

Astrup Fearnley Museet, 2014

Europe Europe

02:55
close-up of a yellow brushstroke in an expressionist painting

Bloomberg SPACE, 2012

Kind of Bloomberg

00:44
graffiti on the exterior wall of a large shopping centre

Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre, 2019

Live @ Elephant & Castle (excerpt)

08:03
a gathering of concerned-looking people, some sitting cross-legged on the floor

Barriedale Bathtub, 2019

Mathieu's Mood

04:44
cropped photograph in low light depicting several paintings in the modern style

3236RLS / Gallery Le Bourgeois, 2018

OBEY

15:40
a standing figure looking at an illuminated screen in an advertising throughfare

The King's Cross Tunnel, 2019

Official Water

10:15
a deserted post-industrial street on a bright day, cordoned off for roadworks

Humber Street, 2017

On Humber Street

01:05:03
the interior of a deserted artists studio with wood pannelling and several paintings on different easels reading JAZZ

Lewisham Art House, 2016

Richard Runs The Context Down

03:55
a smiling woman on an overcast day, leaning against a railing with the sea behind her

Turner Contemporary, 2015

Sketches of Margate

01:32
a civic fountain on a bright day decorated with spring flowers and a statue of a soldier on a plinth

Haus zur Liebe, 2020

Sketches of Schaffhausen

19:32
graphic rendering of a regional map in contrasting colours

Kilifi Creek, 2015

The Jambo Song

01:06
a man banging a pot on a paved residential driveway by a country lane

Lockdown / Facebook, 2020

untitled (Extreme Techno)

11:59:59
a cigarrette in the mouth of a man peering through a cloud of foam in a brightly-lit interior

3236RLS / Gallery Le Bourgeois, 2018

What Am I Going 2 Wear @ A Foam Party?

06:02