Field Notes is a bi-lingual magazine published by the German label Gruenrekorder, edited by Daniel Knef and Lasse-Marc Riek. Generally speaking the magazine is concerned with the phenomenon of sound from the most varied perspectives: artists, scientists and sound researchers add to Field Notes with their essays, interviews, travelogues, anecdotes, notes and picture series.

FN #2: Listening, Documenting

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The second issue – published in December 2009 – features an interview with the passionate phonographer Walter Tilgner, the second and final part of Stefan Militzer’s essay about “Tones, Sounds and Noises,” a collection of old Chinese texts regarding silence and noise – compiled by sound artist Lin Chi-Wei –, anecdotes by Yannick Dauby regarding his recording and hearing experiences with frogs as well as thoughts and reports based on Gabi Schaffner’s personal experiences with accidentally deleted or never recorded sounds from Finland. The magazine closes with an essay of the componist and sound artist Andreas Bick regarding the construction of meaningful correlations when listening – “listening is making sense.”

Articles

Gabi Schaffner: The Madness of the Documentarist
Walter Tilgner interviewt von Marcus Kürten: The Nature-Sound Artist
Stefan Militzer: Tones, Sounds & Noises – Part 2: Policy of Sound
Yannick Dauby: Frogtales
Lin Chi-Wei: 2 Stories about Silence, 2 Stories about Noise
Andreas Bick: Listening is Making Sense

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Editors: Daniel Knef, Lasse-Marc Riek.
Idea & Conception: Daniel Knef, Lasse-Marc Riek.
Contributions: Andreas Bick, Yannick Dauby, Marcus Kürten & Walter Tilgner, Lin Chi-Wei, Stefan Militzer, Gabi Schaffner.
Correction/Lectorship: Tina-Lis Chavanon (German), Daniel Knef (German, English).
Translation: Tobias Fischer, Nicholas Grindell, Marcus Kürten, Lin Chi-Wei, Marlene Nagel, Paul Nutbrown, Gabi Schaffner, Daniel Schiller.
Photography: Peter Bretz (portrait), Anja Brunsfeld, Frank Chardès, Yannick Dauby, Heinz Peter Kapteinat, Marcus Kürten, Stefan Militzer (portrait), miroe (portrait), Heidrun Tilgner (portrait), Tsai Wan-Shuen (portrait), Xu Ya-Zhu (portrait).
Layout & Implementation: Daniel Knef.
Fonts: Fontin Sans von Jos Buivenga.