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The Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

Hello and thanks very much for downloading this podcast.

I'm Mark Stephen.

I think it's fair to see that we have always been sound enthusiasts, but over the past few months of doing this Scotland Outdoors podcast, we've really enjoyed having the time to listen to the sounds around us and to speak to people who make it their business to share sounds with wider audiences.

And to be honest, for me, it's really helped to open up my ears even more.

And that probably holds true for my companion today, Helen Needham.

Oh, for sure. I feel like we've just dipped her two into a whole new world of field recording

with some of the chats we've had.

Well, we always just go about recording stuff anyway, don't we?

But there's a whole kind of big subject out there with lots of related theory and huge body of art as well.

But I suppose the main thing is, however deep you go with the theory, it's like you said,

opening up our ears to new sounds and perhaps

concepts about the world around us. And it's astonishing what actually makes sound that we're

unaware of. We've got some excellent examples in this week's podcast because our guest today

is a professional artist and composer who specialises in field recordings and he's going to take us in a very special sound journey so a big welcome to jazz riley french good morning jess how are you

hi i am fine thanks we first came across your work through the work of a recent guest on this podcast jenny sturgeon who shared some of the field recordings he supplied for her album, The Living Mountain.

Now, interestingly, like many folk involved in sound and field recordings, you've got a musical background.

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