Ears To The Ground: Adventures in Field Recording and Electronic Music

Field recordings have become a vital spark in electronic music, inspiring artists from the mainstream to the most underground. Whether documenting nature, sampling urban environments, or capturing the atmosphere of archaeological sites, musicians are utilising found sounds to interpret our world.

Ears To The Ground explores the relationship between electronics, landscape, and field recordings across the UK, Ireland, and globally. It uncovers how producers and artists evoke the natural world, history, and folklore through sampled sounds. The book features interviews with a host of influential figures, including Leafcutter John, KMRU, Ultramarine, Kate Carr, Erland Cooper, Proc Fiskal, Flora Yin-Wong, Langham Research Centre, Claire Guerin, Toshiya Tsunoda, Lawrence English, Heinali, and Oliver Ho, amongst many others.