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From the cacophonous surrounds of London to the sea stacks of Orkney, via the abandoned military facilities of the Suffolk coast and the watery expanses of the Blackwater Estuary in Essex, from the quarries and neolithic sites of Snowdonia and the wide open skies of Norfolk to the hubbub of Nairobi and Berlin, the streets of Kyiv and the windblown wilds of Antarctica – music is everywhere. You just need to know or learn how to listen. Ears To The Ground: Adventures in Field Recording and Electronic Music explores how electronic music producers and sound artists use field recordings and samples to document their environments. Author Ben Murphy takes you on a journey to discover how field recordings can create context, emotion, atmosphere, humour and meaning – and examine the most pressing topics of our times. Composed of extensive interviews with music producers, the book will show how field recordings have become a vital way of understanding, celebrating and interrogating the landscape and the places we live. The book features interviews with Leafcutter John, KMRU, Ultramarine, Kate Carr, Erland Cooper, Proc Fiskal, Flora Yin-Wong, Langham Research Centre, Claire Guerin, Toshiya Tsunoda, Lawrence English, Heinali, Oliver Ho, Matthew Herbert, Matmos, Scanner, Felicia Atkinson and many more.
Obsessed with hip-hop from the age of 12, Ben Murphy caught the music bug early and started collecting records of all kinds as a teenager. Immersing himself in club culture, drum & bass, techno and trip-hop, he voraciously consumed music magazines, and set his sights on becoming a writer, specialising in electronic and dance sounds. After writing reviews and features for blogs and online fanzines, he became news editor at DJ Magazine, and eventually editor-in-chief at the title.
He has been writing about music for over 20 years and has contributed to The Guardian, Crack, Time Out, Bandcamp Daily, Knowledge, Electronic Sound, FACT, Red Bull Music Academy, Clash, i-D and Vinyl Factory. His first book, co-authored with Carl Loben, was Renegade Snares, a wide-ranging history of drum & bass.
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