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Richard Bentley

@anoisysilence.bsky.social
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Contemplative Listening and Field Recording www.anoisysilence.com

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Richard Bentley @anoisysilence.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
That longing for comforting, familiar attachments that will bring suffering in their wake. New mix here: www.mixcloud.com/a_noisy_sile... #ambientmusic #fieldrecording #experimentalmusic
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Richard Bentley @anoisysilence.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
After an unexpectedly long break from producing these, a new mix has surfaced: www.mixcloud.com/a_noisy_sile... Supine listening with headphones recommended...
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A Noisy Silence #27 Nostalgia (For Samsara)
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Richard Bentley @anoisysilence.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Weekend in #Margate for the #coastofbohemia exhibition with Caroline Streatfield and Kristin Rawcliffe who did a wonderful job of organising. Big thanks to the ever-generous @peterdriver.bsky.social for carting my gear from Reading and back! Lovely to meet so many interesting and talented artists.
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Richard Bentley @anoisysilence.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
If you're in Reading today, coastofbohemia.art is at Blakes Lock Museum 11-6. Happy with how the sound work adds movement to the space, mingling with the honks of geese and roar of the weir, supporting artworks by friends old and new including @peterdriver.bsky.social. #soundart #fieldrecording
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Richard Bentley @anoisysilence.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Winds, tides, currents, forces. Skeletal structures buffeted and breaking. Waves reaching the end of their journey. Then, listening beneath the surface, the cavernous expanse of it all. Very honoured to be offering ‘break,’ a sound work for The Coast of Bohemia exhibition coastofbohemia.art
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Richard Bentley @anoisysilence.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
26 Mixes for Cash [spent on Bandcamp downloads] Available here: www.anoisysilence.com/mixes #supportartists
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mixes | a noisy silence
Opening a space for listening that is simultaneously familiar and enigmatic, vast and intimate. a noisy silence mixes combine progressive ambient, field recording, experimental and folk-infused tunes ...
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Richard Bentley @anoisysilence.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
A gentler way to welcome spring: www.mixcloud.com/a_noisy_sile...
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Richard Bentley @anoisysilence.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
"with no noisy bump, I know that the seabed here must be more than nine meters below me. I adjust the cables so that they hang securely apart at a distance, set levels and settle into listening." www.anoisysilence.com/post/swanage... #contemplativelistening #mindfulness #soundart #fieldrecording
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Richard Bentley @anoisysilence.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I felt slightly out of place in Mayfair, ringing the doorbell of Eskenazi in a hoodie, puffer and rucksack, but I was welcomed in and enjoyed spending half an hour with Li Huayi's beautiful, shimmering 'Trees and mountains on gold and silver' collection.
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Richard Bentley @anoisysilence.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Vibrant colours, strong forms brimming with power and reference, combined beautifully with a soundtrack of jazz/dub/reggae. Just a bit weird hearing massive sound systems sound like a home hifi at a dinner party! Peter Doig at the Serpentine.
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Richard Bentley @anoisysilence.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
"...the inherent sonic qualities of its thin plastic shell randomly knocking against the immovable mass of the church, would likely always feel like a feeble imposition, rather than an honouring of its history and quiet authority." #fieldrecording #contemplation www.anoisysilence.com/post/soundin...
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Richard Bentley @anoisysilence.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
25 mixes to soundtrack [the whole of] your Saturday night: www.anoisysilence.com/mixes (or directly through www.mixcloud.com/a_noisy_sile...)
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mixes | a noisy silence
Opening a space for listening that is simultaneously familiar and enigmatic, vast and intimate. a noisy silence mixes combine progressive ambient, field recording, experimental and folk-infused tunes ...
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Richard Bentley @anoisysilence.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
A repeated light tapping of the way someone talks (listen for more info). New mix. Best enjoyed lying down: www.mixcloud.com/a_noisy_sile... #contemplation #fieldrecording #ambientmusic #mindfulness
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Richard Bentley @anoisysilence.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
#contemplativephotography One of the many things I’ll keep with me from a beautifully playful retreat with friend and dharma teacher Susanne Olbrich last weekend.
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Richard Bentley @anoisysilence.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
A new offering, mixing sound[walk]scapes with ambient, experimental, field recording and improvisation. www.mixcloud.com/a_noi.../a-n... #mindfullistening
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A Noisy Silence #25 Patter
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Richard Bentley @anoisysilence.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Rolling with distraction. A #soundwalk through BunkFest 2025 in #wallingford. New #contemplative #fieldrecording blog here: www.anoisysilence.com/post/bunkfes... #phonography #mindfulness #soundwalking
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Bunkfest Soundwalk
Working with, rather than against, the natural affordances of the mind-body and the soundscape, moves the practice of contemplative field recording in the direction of connection, flexibility and free...
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Richard Bentley @anoisysilence.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Where the video gives speed the #LOM #geophone adds power. Shortening a journey from Montparnasse to Saint Jean de Luz on @sncf-voyageurs.bsky.social #TGV
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Richard Bentley @anoisysilence.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Taking a break from socials for a few weeks. I'll leave you with the sound of a metal groyne sounded by the waves and recorded by draping two hydrophones over it. Take care folks...
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Richard Bentley @anoisysilence.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Creative live recording (singing into a font is a first!) for Sarah Lambert-Gates' work responding to #Cookham Abbey. Lovely to capture archeologist Lucy-Anne Taylor playing her replica bone flute from the site and work alongside Olga Dikajee. More info here: www.cookhamabbey.org.uk/event/river-...
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Richard Bentley @anoisysilence.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Great buzz in the the studio this morning, recording voiceovers for Nature Nurture with Chris Mitchell, Emma, Fayez, Fern and Toby of Rabble Theatre. All sorts of wild animals were brought to life, including 'street' Hedgehogs, cockney Robins and a rather softly spoken Goldcrest.
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Richard Bentley @anoisysilence.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Enjoyed the cool and shade of the woodlands at The Cowsey in Reading for our #wellbeing #soundwalk last Friday. A grounding meditation followed by a soundwalk using #fieldrecording to help us focus on the #soundscape and our presence in it. www.anoisysilence.com/soundwalks
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Richard Bentley @anoisysilence.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Always a pleasure to work with Nature Nurture CIC this time at Reading Waterfest. The tent offered some very welcome shade for passersby who got stuck in to painting watery wildlife, while I invited visitors to test-out our #WebOfLifeQuest game.
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Richard Bentley @anoisysilence.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
A scorchingly hot, but thoroughly enjoyable visit to the little-known Kennet Island Wildlife Conservation Area in Reading and the [in]famous 'Shitty Ditch' with Elis Bentley and local history-buff David Turner.
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Richard Bentley @anoisysilence.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Fascinating, enveloping, challenging performances last night, with sound being coaxed from objects and machines with real sensitivity to the space and their new partners-in-sound for the evening. #soundart
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Richard Bentley @anoisysilence.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Sunlight exposes layers of watercolour that add depth to the shallows. The first silent washes of fish and dragonfly lay down a base coat on which blue tit, blackcap and foliage perch.
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Richard Bentley @anoisysilence.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
"There can grow a confidence in navigating our relationships silently... enjoying the depth of connection that can come when we do not reduce the world to words." New blog post: www.anoisysilence.com/post/winterb... #fieldrecording #contemplation #soundwalk #wallingforduk #mindfulness
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Richard Bentley @anoisysilence.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Wood Street, Wallingford, UK
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Richard Bentley @anoisysilence.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
"I left the dustpan and handbrush where I had found it, recorded a further moment or two of stillness, before halting the recording to sit and type these rememberings into my phone..." www.anoisysilence.com/post/sweepin... #fieldrecording #contemplation #sweeping #mindfulness
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Richard Bentley @anoisysilence.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
"Although the church stands battered, bruised and mildly neglected, its otherness and seeming lack of purpose spoke to me of uncommon, underrepresented values - the usefulness of the useless." Getting back-to-the-broom again! www.anoisysilence.com/post/sweepin...
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Sweeping St Mary's
I placed the portable recorder on the communion rail, picked up the soft-bristled broom and began sweeping the chancel floor.
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Richard Bentley @anoisysilence.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
'scatter' make of that what you will. Listen here: www.mixcloud.com/a_noisy_sile... #contemplation #fieldrecording #ambientmusic #mindfulness
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Richard Bentley @anoisysilence.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
29 minutes and 59 seconds of sensitively crafted ambient-field-recording-experimental-folkiness. Care-full listening on headphones recommended: www.mixcloud.com/a_noisy_sile... #contemplation #fieldrecording #mindfulness #ambient
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Richard Bentley @anoisysilence.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
What a privilege to handle this beautiful kestrel - a wonder of nature! Part of a wild day-out with Nature Nurture, @hiveit.co.uk and @knowlewestmedia.bsky.social and even got to do a bit of sound for film with Manifest Film All thanks to #DigitalCatapult @innovateuk.bsky.social
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Richard Bentley @anoisysilence.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Blog post #5 #GeorgesPerec, #kevinboniface, sense foraging and the power of the infra-ordinary. www.anoisysilence.com/post/another... #fieldrecording #paris
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Richard Bentley @anoisysilence.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Finding myself in Paris exactly 50 years after Georges Perec wrote 'An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris,' I headed to Place Saint-Sulpice, ordered a coffee and set about noticing "...what happens when nothing happens." www.anoisysilence.com/post/another... #fieldrecording #georgesperec #paris
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Another Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris
Finding myself in Paris exactly 50 years after Georges Perec, it felt like a timely opportunity to follow in his footsteps.
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Richard Bentley @anoisysilence.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
What a focused and creative group of young people at @knowlewestmedia.bsky.social's Soundwave(+). A genuine pleasure to be working on Web Of Life Quest #gamemusic with them. #BristolUK - you still still got it! #digitalcatapult @innovateuk.bsky.social
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Richard Bentley @anoisysilence.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
The tape wow drone of train motors leaving the platform, escalators screech and whimper for attention, matters repeatedly ignored by the announcer, whose only interest is the timely delivery of [un]timely news.
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Richard Bentley @anoisysilence.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
In part two of this post on care-full listening, I explore more similarities between listening at the hospital and listening in the field... www.anoisysilence.com/post/care-fu... #listening #contemplation #fieldrecording #Mindfulness Art work pictured from an installation with artist Mark Langley
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Care-full Listening Part II
In Part II, drawing parallels with listening at the hospital, I want to move out into the soundscape, then explore expansive awareness.
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Richard Bentley @anoisysilence.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Dawdling as nonviolent resistance…mix #23 listen here: www.mixcloud.com/a_noisy_sile... #contemplation #fieldrecording #ambientmusic #musicandmindfulness
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Richard Bentley @anoisysilence.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
An opportunity to rest, recharge and dawdle a bit: www.mixcloud.com/a_noisy_sile... #contemplation #fieldrecording #ambientmusic #musicandmindfulness
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A Noisy Silence #23 Dawdle [Richard Bentley]
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Hive IT @hiveit.co.uk · 13/02/2025
Last Friday, Nature Nurture team and Aki from Digital Catapult visited Hive IT HQ in Sheffield for hands on workshops. We developed key user personas and refined our game loop, emphasising teamwork and user focus. Enjoy our group photo with our mini ‘Web of Life Quest’ game and some biscuits! 😂
Group photo of Hive IT, Nature Nurture and A Noisy Silence stood together in a meeting room all smiling at the camera. On the table in front is lots of pictures and different coloured sticky notes to portray a miniature version of the ‘Web of Life Quest’ game so far.
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Richard Bentley @anoisysilence.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Train to Sheffield, hiking across sod and stone, Ecologies card games by the fire and a day closing-in on double diamond design with our friends at #NatureNurtureCIC and @hiveit.co.uk Our 'Web of Life Quest' is slowly taking shape! #digitalcatapult
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Richard Bentley @anoisysilence.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
22 mixes featuring field recordists, folk singers and a whole host of sonic explorers... www.anoisysilence.com/mixes. If you think your work would sit nicely in these mixes, do send it over (richard@anoisysilence.com)
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mixes | a noisy silence
Opening a space for listening that is simultaneously familiar and enigmatic, vast and intimate. a noisy silence mixes combine progressive ambient, field recording, experimental and folk-infused tunes ...
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Richard Bentley @anoisysilence.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Delicate, shifting drones provide a base from which you can venture out into soundworlds both familiar and alien. Beautifully recorded and sensitively structured work from friend @manjaristic.bsky.social Listen here: manjaristic.bandcamp.com/album/genesis
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Richard Bentley @anoisysilence.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Are you 'nesh'? I hadn't heard of this word until Sunday night, but thought it was an apt title for this wintery musical offering (and me if I'm honest!)... www.mixcloud.com/a_noisy_sile... #Contemplation #fieldrecording #ambientmusic #mindfulness
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Richard Bentley @anoisysilence.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
A warming winter mix of crackling crustaceans, tape tampering, digital droplets and vicarious vocals. Lie back and listen...https://www.mixcloud.com/a_noisy_silence/a-noisy-silence-21-nesh-richard-bentley/
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Richard Bentley @anoisysilence.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
During the COVID-19 pandemic, with the insecurities of hourly-paid university lecturing becoming increasingly evident, I found myself searching for a different path... www.anoisysilence.com/post/care-fu... #fieldrecording #contemplation #mindfulness #wellbeing #soundart
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Richard Bentley @anoisysilence.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Folk melodies drift on thick layers of snow and ice, the soundtrack to a winter’s night walk... www.mixcloud.com/a_noisy_sile... #contemplation #fieldrecording #ambient #mindfulness
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Richard Bentley @anoisysilence.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
A rather lean and healthy post-festive offering of #fieldrecording, #folkmusic, #ambient #electronica and #drone. Best listened to with your headphones on, eyes closed and with as much clear headspace as you can muster! www.mixcloud.com/a_noisy_sile... #mindfulness #contemplation #experimentalmusic
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A Noisy Silence #21 Tilt (Back Towards The Sun)
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Richard Bentley @anoisysilence.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
I'm always eager to hear what Michael Tanner (Plinth) is listening to and inspired by. A beautifully curated "collection of hymns, carols, folk standards and field-recordings from the past 800 years" to welcome in the northern hemisphere's 'tilt towards the sun'. www.mixcloud.com/folkradiouk/...
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Richard Bentley @anoisysilence.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
One of those special moments in field recording when thunder provides an expansive backdrop to local musicians rehearsing in Ubiarco, N. Spain. Hear more here: www.mixcloud.com/framework_ra... #fieldrecording #contemplation #mindfulness
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