Bespoke SFX / Real-world sound

Field Recording

Crowd & Effects Recording

Recording the particular places, materials and human textures that a story needs.

Utah, U.S. · August 2025

A personal archive of sound

When you listen closely, everyday sound becomes something beautiful.

A sound becomes memorable when it is tied to a moment. What it means depends on where you are, what is happening around you and how you feel when you hear it.

When I work with sounds I have recorded myself, I remember the place, the movement and the conditions around each take. That familiarity changes how I edit and shape the material, and it often brings something personal to the final mix.

These photographs come from some of my recent field, crowd and effects recording sessions. If you are looking for a particular sound, or simply want to know more about one of these recordings, please get in touch.

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Listening for the character of a place
Listening for the character of a place
Contact recording / Snow
Contact recording / Snow

01

Place

Location-specific ambiences and perspectives that let a film feel genuinely inhabited.

02

Texture

Objects, surfaces and material movement recorded to give each project its own sonic vocabulary.

03

People

Crowd, group and vocal textures shaped around the scale, energy and perspective a scene needs.

Field archive / Selected notes

Sound beginswith being there.

The archive moves between wide environmental perspectives and close, tactile sources. The photographs are part of the record: where the sound was found, how it was approached and what shaped the listening position.

Crowd & group recording

Many voices.One believable space.

A crowd scene needs more than a mass of voices. I record focused calls, reactions and group movement with the scale and perspective of the scene in mind. Each element is captured so it can be shaped around the picture during the edit and mix.

Multi-microphone crowd recording setup
Multi-microphone crowd recording setup
Movement / engine / pass-by perspective
Movement / engine / pass-by perspective
Atami, Japan · December 2025 / Fireworks
Atami, Japan · December 2025 / Fireworks

For a particular story

Haven’t heard the feeling your story needs yet?

I can record bespoke effects, environments and crowd material for film, television, animation, commercial and other moving-image work.

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