I've been recording sound since I read The Soundscape by R. Murray Schafer years ago, and I never really stopped. I carry a recorder pretty much everywhere: on tour, walking around a new city, at home. I like a recording that actually sounds like somewhere, not just noise.
Most of it's in binaural 360° with the location tagged, so by now I've got recordings from all over. Some of it ends up in songs. The rest goes into the Field Recordings LP series, where the recording is the whole point instead of something sitting under the piano.
In albums
When You Take Off Your Shoes (2019) has recordings from New York City, Weaverville NC, Petit Jean AR, Lake Santeetlah NC, and Portland OR built into the piano pieces. Those are places I was actually in while writing it.
The track In Evenings, Loose Formation on Iso (2025) came out of recording crows in Vancouver at sunset, thousands of them flying back to roost. That's basically why the piece moves the way it does.
Field Recordings album series
Vol. 1 (2019) is from a four-week trip around Europe: Stockholm, London, Amsterdam, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Copenhagen, Reykjavík. Vol. 2 (2021) is 18 recordings from Vancouver and Banff during the pandemic: Granville Island, Iona Jetty, people cheering for health workers, Lighthouse Park, Lake Louise, and more.
At some point I'd like to make the whole catalogue public, and I'm always up for working with other artists who want field recordings in their own stuff.