FNC 1121 by Tiago Tobias

For a while, once a year, I took an airplane to my birthplace, a small, beautiful island in the Atlantic Ocean. And each year, the island found a way to confront me.

Field Music Notes is a music series dedicated to crafting narratives from life using only field recordings from site-specific locations.

The process begins by inhabiting a new space, tuning the body’s awareness to environmental change, and identifying local soundmarks and keynotes. These elements form a personal narrative seeking to capture the perceived identity of the recorded environments.