I've been away for so long, but here is something to be shared. soundcloud.com/melissapons/...
Hoatzins in a Slow Amazonia Thunderstorm
nature field recordist curator at earth.fm sound designer
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Melissa Pons
@melissapons.bsky.social
nature field recordist in the countryside curator earth.fm ///🌲🌾 sound designer @HemCreekProd New release 'Of Wolves and People': https://nilsmosh.bandcamp.com/album/of-wolves-and-people-2 http://melissapons.com
In celebration of the Equinox, while wrapping recordings from the Peruvian Amazon, use code 'mequinox' on any and all my bandcamp releases. Additional 20% if you get the entire discography. Let the Equinox be a true beginning of how we want to build the future now! melissapons.bandcamp.com
melissa pons
Melissa Pons is a nominated field recordist and award-winning sound designer based in Portugal. Throughout her years of practice, she has independently released field recording albums, music compositions upon commissions and her work has been streamed and featured in several media, like the BBC and NPR. Her work orbits around the more-than-human-world and our complex relationship with it.
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It seemed like a distant fantasy at some point but I'm here! soundcloud.com/melissapons/...
Colourful Dawn in the Andean Amazon Intersection
My first long recording in this location was more of a test rather than an attempt for a finite result. Although issues that often occur in very quiet places, such as high noise floor, practically don
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30 minutes of rain in the precious Atlantic Forest and a *very cute* chorus of frogs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hSV...
Night in the Atlantic Forest - Sounds of Rain and Frogs
YouTube video by Melissa Pons
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Today is bandcamp Friday and you can get all my discography with 20% off. 💚 melissapons.bandcamp.com
melissa pons
Melissa Pons is a nominated field recordist and award-winning sound designer based in Portugal. Throughout her years of practice, she has independently released field recording albums, music compositions upon commissions and her work has been streamed and featured in several media, like the BBC and NPR. Her work orbits around the more-than-human-world and our complex relationship with it.
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1 million signatures for Palestine ! actions.eko.org/a/1-million-...
1 million signatures for Palestine !
As we speak, Israel has banned dozens of humanitarian organisations, blocked life-saving aid, and dismantled the last lifelines for people in Gaza. Children are starving. Hospitals have been destroyed...
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I've been posting some recordings from the Atlantic Forest in Brazil, in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, where half of my family is from. soundcloud.com/melissapons/... I never expected magical "ancestor" insights but there are magical hypnotizing sounds:
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Explore the largest community of artists, bands, podcasters and creators of music & audio
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Penguins Don’t Belong in Basements action.eko.org/a/sea-life-l...
Penguins Don’t Belong in Basements
Fifteen penguins are trapped underground in central London, cut off from sunlight and outdoor access.SEA LIFE London Aquarium keeps them in a windowless basement, pacing under harsh artificial lights
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My new field recording album is available for pre-order! 🦌 Recorded in Portugal and in France, two species of red deer, two different habitats. Powerful acoustics, very intense vocalisations! Use code 18jan for 50% off until Jan 18th. melissapons.bandcamp.com/album/cervus
Cervus, by melissa pons
8 track album
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December Solstice across the world! 🌏 A playlist by multidisciplinary artist Cameron Randall. earth.fm/playlists/de...
December Solstice - earth.fm
Celebrate December’s Solstice with beautiful natural soundscapes spanning continents and across hemispheres. For some, it’s the longest night of the
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Remarkable sound recording in Taman Negara, Peninsular Malaysia, from 1994: Gibbons in the Morning This field recording has been made by Corrie Schffer. earth.fm/recordings/g...
Gibbons in the Morning - earth.fm
After attempting a crossing of Borneo in 1993 I became enthralled by the rain forest and all its wonderful sounds. Since then I’ve spent many months camping solo in the forests of Sumatra and…
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Amazing to meet and talk to Jakub about his work, which is incredibly poetic. Nature field recording is much bigger than what it seems and Jakub is one of those artists who naturally show that with his own philosophy, knowledge and approach. I highly recommend listening to this episode!
Earth.fm@earth-fm.bsky.social · 9mo agoOur last podcast episode of 2025 couldn't be better with our guest Jakub Orzęcki, a field recordist based in Poland. Highly poetic, intentional and knowledgeable, this interview is the right inspiration and spirit to cross to the new year. earth.fm/podcast/jaku...
New blog post by Neil Clarke that explores the "dimension of the Gaza war and Israel’s illegal occupation of the Palestinian Territories" particularly on its environmental effects. earth.fm/earth-storie...
Impacts on nature of Israel’s occupation of Palestine & the Gaza war
Earth.fm explores how the war in Gaza & Israel’s illegal occupation of the Palestinian Territories has impacted the environment in the region
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A very little sneak peak into my nature field recording work along the years. Use code 'thankyou' for30% off + 20% for the whole discography! The entire fee today goes to the artists! melissapons.bandcamp.com
It's bandcamp Friday!! 💚 Directly support your favourite artists. Use code 'thankyou' for 30% off on any and all purchases + 20% if you get the whole discography. melissapons.bandcamp.com
melissa pons
Melissa Pons is a nominated field recordist and award-winning sound designer based in Portugal. Throughout her years of practice, she has independently released field recording albums, music compositi...
melissapons.bandcamp.com
My audio drama reel with shows from 2024 and 2025. The first two samples (Connections and Liars & Leeches) showcase best non-literal sound design, with strong scenarios and emotional cues, while the following are more representative of literal editing. Thank you for watching! youtu.be/_sban_fTWtE
Sound Design - Audio Drama Reel 2025 - Melissa Pons
YouTube video by Melissa Pons
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Thanks so much to everyone who has shared this! Things got complicated a bit suddenly. To anyone who is interested I'm offering 30% discount on my entire bandcamp collection with the code 'thankyou'. melissapons.bandcamp.com
melissa pons
Melissa Pons is a nominated field recordist and award-winning sound designer based in Portugal. Throughout her years of practice, she has independently released field recording albums, music compositi...
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Melissa Pons@melissapons.bsky.social · 10mo agoHey all! I'm urgently looking for an audio editing / sound design gig from now until end of January or ongoing if part-time. I'm very experienced in voice editing (incl dialogue in film) and I love doing sound design for audio drama. Here's my reel. Reaper + iZtpRX soundcloud.com/melissapons/...
Hey all! I'm urgently looking for an audio editing / sound design gig from now until end of January or ongoing if part-time. I'm very experienced in voice editing (incl dialogue in film) and I love doing sound design for audio drama. Here's my reel. Reaper + iZtpRX soundcloud.com/melissapons/...
Audio Drama Sound Design Reel
Sound Design, underscore, editing and mixing of audio dramas / fiction podcast. 00:00 | Connections, The Podcast | episode 3: Headlights 01:00 | Liars & Leeches | episode 2: The Way Things Used To Be
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Hey all! I'm urgently looking for an audio editing / sound design gig from now until end of January or ongoing if part-time. I'm very experienced in voice editing (incl dialogue in film) and I love doing sound design for audio drama. Here's my reel. Reaper + iZtpRX soundcloud.com/melissapons/...
Audio Drama Sound Design Reel
Sound Design, underscore, editing and mixing of audio dramas / fiction podcast. 00:00 | Connections, The Podcast | episode 3: Headlights 01:00 | Liars & Leeches | episode 2: The Way Things Used To Be
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WOW! I've been seeing a medium sized murder of crows on my way to my pelican sunset location, about 40-50, and I've thought about stopping, but never had the time. Today I had an extra 20 minutes and while driving past I saw WAY more crows AND them swooping on GULLS! I stopped. And got these. 🪶 ⚔️
The high intelligence of wolves. Watch this wolf figure out how to swim out and haul in a crab trap
Raiders of the lobster pot: Canadian wolves learn to loot crab traps for bait
Researchers in British Columbia catch sea wolves in the act after placing camera to solve mystery of damaged traps
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Please do yourselves a favor and listen to these birds mimic R2-D2. (And learn something about how some species are able to do it better than others!) (by Kate Graham-Shaw for @sciam.bsky.social)
These Birds Learned to Tweet Like R2-D2. Listen to the Uncanny Results
The lovable Star Wars droid is helping to shed light on why some bird species are better at mimicking sounds than others
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Editing my album on the red deer (Iberian & European), thinking of new beginnings (conjectured by a double rainbow) and preparing my field recording trip to S. America, I'm offering 30% discount on all and any purchase on bandcamp w/ code thankyou 💫 melissapons.bandcamp.com earth.fm/recordings/i...
Iberian Red Deer in the Night - earth.fm
Red deer at mid distance in the rutting season. The night has fallen and everything seems to have gotten very quiet to listen or give space for this big animal. Its roars fill the space, a large area ...
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New playlist, curated by @melissapons.bsky.social, Quiet Nocturnal Soundscapes From frogs and insects, to the virtuoso nightingale and calm ocean shores, from different forest biomes, deserts and wetlands. earth.fm/playlists/qu...
Quiet Nocturnal Soundscapes - earth.fm
Quiet Nocturnal Soundscapes is a playlist that invites the listeners to travel through the tranquil nights around the planet. From frogs and nocturnal insects, to the virtuoso nightingale and calm…
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If there's one thing I'd hope the music community learns from Leave Spotify it's this: The signs were there for years but we acted too slow. Artists are broke. The LLM has its dataset for AI slop. Ek has made his billions and reinvested in AI+war. The damage is done. Next time we must move faster.
My article about 'spooky' wildlife and some of their most gruesome and macabre behaviours, but also how to celebrate Halloween far more sustainably! This also marks my 100th article for @aunz.theconversation.com 🎉 🥳. theconversation.com/lets-celebra...
Let’s celebrate nature’s spookiest and freakiest animals this Halloween
From blood-squirting lizard eyes to zombie cockroaches, the natural world is ready for a truly terrifying Halloween.
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Sharks absolutely get cancer, and people claiming otherwise are pseudoscientific grifters preying on the desperate. Even if sharks did not get cancer, eating shark would not cure your cancer any more than eating LeBron James would make you better at basketball.
