Category Archives: Audio

Black Bamboo Garden

Here’s a recording I made in 2004, after just a few months with Transom in my life. It’s an odd one – me with a MiniDisc in Beijing’s Black Bamboo Gardens park. Mostly me yakking with pauses. I’ve stumbled across it … Continue reading

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Disk Diving

For some reason, I wanted to find a programme from late ’06/’07  about falling. Some guy fell down a hole in a farm, in Australia I think, and it was a while before anyone found him. I can’t remember if … Continue reading

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Recording in Los Angeles

It’s fair to say that if you can’t get good tape in Los Angeles, you can’t get good tape anywhere. They people love to talk, and to our ears that are fascinating. Local awareness, inhibition, plenty of volume. And, well, … Continue reading

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Tunnel

A recent tweet by Radiolab‘s Jad Abumrad on ways to die in a train tunnel (!) reminded me of the time I walked through a disused one in New Zealand, in May 2008. It was one of the last recordings … Continue reading

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Sunny Sunday South London Freight Train

Just a week field recording of a freight train this morning. Listen carefully and you might hear a creak of some sort as it goes along the brick bridge above me. And by field recording, I mean iPhone Voice Memo!

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Cantonese Youth Drama Demo

This is just a demo I made with the excellent Chinese Mental Health Association a few months back. It’s in Cantonese.

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Angus Graham: A Profile

Tada! The first new audio I’m posting here for quite a while: Angus Graham, A Profile. Angus Graham (1919 – 1991) was professor of Classical Chinese at SOAS. For more on him, please listen to the programme :-) The intended … Continue reading

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In The Beginning: Sumer

Exclusive Preview! No seriously, this is an exclusive preview. This will be episode two of In The Beginning, a series I’ve worked on at OpenAir.fm. The series isn’t ready for the off yet, but this one is, and I’m kinda … Continue reading

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Archive: Wellington

A half-hour field-recording profile of Wellington, New Zealand. This version was made for Martin Williams’ All Day Every Day on Resonance FM in London.

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Archive: Congo Demo in Brussels

More archive, this time from a demonstration outside the Palais de Justice, in Brussels. From March 2009.

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