Asia-Pacific Field Recording Forum

Sleepy Bay, Tasmania

Light surf on pebbles, on-shore wind, kelp garden

Toorale

"Toorale" homestead dates from 1895. It sits on the banks of the Warrego river, amongst mulga scrub in the arid country of far west New South Wales. Constructed from timber and iron, the homestead was abandoned by the early 1970s, and is now a home to swallows, decaying gently along with its contents, including a ruined piano.

Mekong Delta Blues

Mekong delta, twilight, approaching rain, close insects and frogs, distant singing, distant boats, passing motorbike

Jade Temple OK Cyclo

Jade Temple, Saigon/HCM City, exterior, cyclo driver, motorbikes, courtyard insects, children, water feature

Jade Temple Walk

Jade Temple, Saigon/HCM City, Vietnam. Bells. Prayers. Clock. Rainy season.

Stone Country

Stone Country : Karulkiyalu ngurra. Upper western NSW. Gundabooka is one stop of many that Baiame made when creating this country. In the old days the people would travel on foot along creek lines from place to place. Recording made in rock overhang, on the side of the creek bed/gorge. Light wind gusts blowing along the gorge. Headphone listening recommended.

Angkor, market, wat, evening chanting

Recordings from the field, Cambodia August 2007. In and around Siem Reap, the temples and forests of Angkor, and the hills of Kbal Spean. Tracing the presence and activity of local people in this environment. Kids that work in the grounds of the Wats, monks and novices, guides, and musicians. Moving further away from people into the forest to record frogs, insects, running water, rain.

Angkor dusk, frogs, people, horse, traffic hum, distant chanting

Orchestra at Banteay Srei, land mine victims

Girls in Preah Khan, chatting and laughing, radio

Boys collecting wood, Angkor forest

Kbal Spean, forest, stream, insects, two walkers

Preah Khan, rain, musicians, motor bike