Jez riley French

Now, there was a, we spoke before we started recording about field recordings and that there was a woman, a Buddhist called Pauline Oliveros in the 60s who developed this whole practice of deep listening, which is to explore what happens when we stop trying to project onto the world and just allow the world to arrive through, predominantly for her, it was hearing, but it was other senses as well.

So I've taken the flavour of that and expressed it through domei because I went on a field recording weekend with one of the most amazing guy called Jez Riley French, who's a Yorkshire man, amazing field recordist.

And he's very direct.

And I said, look, you're doing a Zen practice.

Um, and then we've, we've had a whole, a whole new generation of what are essentially started out as cottage industries.

People like Jez Riley French, who started making microphones for his friends, and this turned into a small business, and he makes contact mics and hydrophones at very reasonable prices, and everybody uses them.

Um, and this has been iterated through all sorts of small companies.

It's, uh, you know, in terms of a, a relevance to sound on sound.

It's about the same size as a, as a, as a bottle top, those ones that I'm using there.

So yeah, they, they look very harm- bit like a stethoscope at best for that sort of thing.

You spoke very briefly earlier about Jez Riley French making his own microphones.

And, and one of the things I've got in, in my everyday field kit is, um, some hydrophones made by JRF.