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Field recordings are audio files the producer captures outside the airless space of the computer to bring the real world into a track. The practice soars beyond samples (e.g. stolen snare hits, pilfered vintage Fender Rhodes chords) towards film’s foley sound effect tracks (e.g. mysterious footsteps, whispering), seeking the cinematic feeling of being immersed within the textures of an acoustic place. Find the fields around you, record their sounds, and play with them. Field recordings teach the producer about listening analogically and finding genealogies embedded in the production craft: Can you hear white noise as wind, thunder as sub bass, sine tones as wind chimes, birds as counterpoint, and rattling subway rides as long drone trips?