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The collection of soundscapes gathered for this edition of framework:afield are based on field recordings made in the geographical area where I live, in the interior of central Portugal, between the Açor mountain and Estrela mountain, the highest point on our continent, between natural and humanized landscapes, trying to capture […]

the latest batch of releases from the great unfathomless label, featuring sounds recorded in a quarry (contre-montagne translates as reverse-mountain, or maybe negative-mountain) in montreal, and the "drainages, vent pipes, docks, electrical boxes and surfaces of steel and concrete structures" along fish point in portland, maine. also sounds from "abandoned […]

this is a special edition of framework:afield produced here at framework HQ in memory of composer and biomedical research scientist alan lamb, influential recordist of abandoned telegraph wires in the australian outback since the 1970’s. lamb sadly passed away on april 18th, 2025 at his home in perth, australia.

so, we are back on the air after a brief spring break, and we won't be leaving you again until our annual summer break in august. good thing, too, because we've got a lot of sounds to get through, and we think we made a good start with this edition […]

this week's edition of framework:afield has been produced in the united states by author and sound artist brian c. short, using sounds collecting in thailand. producer's notes:

For a couple of months in 2022/23, I lived across the narrow street from Wat Umong, one of the many Buddhist temples of […]

sounds from geneva, montreal, ghent and brisbane this week, along with recent listener-chosen aporee map favorites from portugal, france, the u.s. and belgium. balam ronan's collection from 2018 contructs her personal map of the city of geneva; anne-f jacques presents "3 situations involving seaweed, glass, plastic, paper, slowly moving motors […]

this edition of framework:afield has been produced in the united states by steven sherrill, using a found cassette of a family get-together from the early 1980’s and a collection of found answering machine recordings. for more information see https://stevensherrill.com/.

satisfyingly, a 100% self-released edition this week, with all four releases available for streaming and download on the artists' bandcamp pages - follow the links below to hear them again and support these great artists. tomasz pizio provided his latest release of local field recordings for us, and also sent us […]

This edition features extracts from field recording based compositions created by Acoustic Ecology and Field Recording students at Goldsmiths, University of London. The original pieces the extracts come from are between 13min and 20min in length, and the show has been curated by Iris Garrelfs.

in this edition we are hearing from a favorite artist (released by a favorite label) that we somehow haven't heard on the program in many, many years: jacob kirkegaard's latest, snowblind, is out now on the helen scarsdale agency. we also continue exploring the work of makhun, a uk-based filipino […]