Develop sound recording skills, explore underwater sounds and gain hands-on experience with specialist microphones.

Explore underwater sounds and other hidden sound worlds with interdisciplinary artist Kathy Hinde in this one-day Introduction to Underwater Recording course. You’ll be introduced to recording techniques using a range of specialist microphones such as hydrophones, geophones and adapted contact microphones to access sounds that are usually inaccessible to the human ear. 

In the morning, you'll go outside for a listening walk. You'll then explore and record using a range of different specialist microphones including hydrophones, contact microphones and geophones.

In the afternoon, you'll listen back to your recordings and listen to recordings from other artists for inspiration. You'll also critically reflect upon and contextualise how field recording sits between sound art and eco-acoustics and explore how to further develop your creative practice.