Ambient music can feel left-field and unfamiliar. It often abandons the tropes people use to define music in the first place—beats, hooks, vocals, or even a time signature (though to make it more ...

Albums featuring chattering animals and roaring weather systems have blurred the boundaries of music and chance, new age and noise. By Christopher R. Weingarten The world of “field recordings” is ...

You return from a long day reporting in the field — only to realize you didn't record ambience. You're in the middle of a reporting trip and you've forgotten extra batteries for your recorder. You're ...

Reader Craig Messerman is hitting the trail to record the sounds of the world around us. He’d like to use his MacBook in the process, but has hit a snag. He writes: How can I use an AudioTechnica ...

Sediments continuously record variations of the Earth’s magnetic field and thus provide an important archive for studying the geodynamo. The recording process occurs as magnetic grains partially align ...