>>1206415Man, I could go on and on about it. Visual media is great for documenting and remember places, and artistically capturing what a place feels like as well, but sound is just as good, but different, and way overlooked. For every 10,000 people who take photos of places you might find one who captures the sound of a place, maybe even less. Different senses/stimuli work in our brains differently, it's just a different experience to listen to a place, especially if you were there and you're listening *back* to it.
I put the effort into recording places specifically to capture whatever magic is present that I can - I want to remember the location and how it feels, but also I want the recording to be even better sounding than it was when I was there. If it's immersive and satisfying even better. Like with photography, you can do that by making specific choices with your technique, location and placement, editing, etc.
I use my restaurant analogy a lot. You can go to a restaurant, take photo of the table or the food or whatever, put it on FB or insta and have it as a scrapbook item to remember forever. But if you record the sound of the restaurant listening back will be almost like smelling the kitchen again. The atmosphere is alive again. It's not better, but it's different and worthwhile. I listen to recordings I did 5 years ago and I love them even more now than I did then. They're literally real-time memories playing back, and the way I try to record really makes you feel like you're there - immersive with a good sense of place. I have them on soundcloud and a mildly visited youtube channel, and the people who find them seem to really enjoy them. Also I have quite a few recordings licensed in movies and video games. Plus it's fun. For an audio dork who loves the outdoors, field recording's the bee's tits.
