The quietest episode yet. (Pls. use Headphones)
Room tone is the sound of a space when nothing is happening - the acoustic fingerprint that every room carries.
It's what film sound recordists capture on set to make dialogue feel natural, but it's also something we're constantly processing in our daily lives without realizing it.
Our brains use these subtle audio cues to understand the size, shape, and character of the spaces around us.
This episode is an exploration of the dimensions of sound in enclosed spaces.
Followed by a recording of a quiet mountain lodge, the silence covered by a layer of noise, as its just to quiet for the gear to capture. Nevertheless, interesting to listen to:
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Exploring Room Tone
06:45 The quiet room tone of a shared Mountain Lodge
Extended listening without narration on the Youtube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/@TheListeningFieldPodcast).
More thoughts on Field Recording and each Episode at: https://thelisteningfield.substack.com (https://thelisteningfield.substack.com)
31 Aug 2025
S02E07 - Tea and Thunder
In this episode, I invite you into my studio in Vienna on a stormy September morning. While heavy rain and wind rolled through the city, I prepared my daily tea session: Chinese sheng pu’er, brewed in the mindful way of Gong Fu Cha.
The first part of the episode is simply the storm itself — one of the heavy thunderstorms that swept through Austria on September 15th, 2024 and on my windows.
Midway through,the recording I begin my tea session. You’ll hear the metal hotplate expanding with heat, the clay kettle coming to a boil, and the tiny teapot opening and pouring, again and again, through many steeps.
Pu’er tea has become an important part of my life, a time away from the spinning world.
I hope you can imagine the cozy room, the rising steam, and the rhythm of the rain outside as you join me in this session.
TIMESTAMPS
03:00 Thunderstorms
25:00 Tea session starting
Episodes without Narration on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/@TheListeningFieldPodcast (https://www.youtube.com/@TheListeningFieldPodcast)
My Blog with Exploration on Pu'er Tea: https://tealog.net (https://tealog.net)
24 Aug 2025
S02E06 - A quiet Winter Morning in the Alps
In this episode, we delve into the quiet nature sounds of a Sunday morning from our cozy little house tucked away in the mountains of Austria.The early morning was bathed in the glow of a full moon, accompanied by a gentle and chilly breeze that rustled through the bushes in the garden and the pine trees on the distant mountains.However, as the episode progresses (at 33:15), the strong winds that had been present throughout the night begin to pick up again, creating an eerie atmosphere.
Recorded on December 15th, 2024, 06.30 A.M. with a DIY SASS, from my balcony.
Part of Season 2: The Sound of Space — a podcast about field recording and the art of conscious listening.
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