nature field recordist curator at earth.fm sound designer

Melissa Pons is a nominated field recordist and award-winning sound designer based in Portugal. Throughout her years of practice, she has independently released field recording albums, music compositions upon commissions and her work has been streamed and featured in several media, like the BBC and NPR. Her work orbits around the more-than-human-world and our complex relationship with it.

My first long recording in this location was more of a test rather than an attempt for a finite result. Although issues that often occur in very quiet places, such as high noise floor, practically don

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Melissa Pons is a nominated field recordist and award-winning sound designer based in Portugal. Throughout her years of practice, she has independently released field recording albums, music compositions upon commissions and her work has been streamed and featured in several media, like the BBC and NPR. Her work orbits around the more-than-human-world and our complex relationship with it.

As we speak, Israel has banned dozens of humanitarian organisations, blocked life-saving aid, and dismantled the last lifelines for people in Gaza. Children are starving. Hospitals have been destroyed...

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Fifteen penguins are trapped underground in central London, cut off from sunlight and outdoor access.SEA LIFE London Aquarium keeps them in a windowless basement, pacing under harsh artificial lights

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Celebrate December’s Solstice with beautiful natural soundscapes spanning continents and across hemispheres. For some, it’s the longest night of the

After attempting a crossing of Borneo in 1993 I became enthralled by the rain forest and all its wonderful sounds. Since then I’ve spent many months camping solo in the forests of Sumatra and…

Earth.fm explores how the war in Gaza & Israel’s illegal occupation of the Palestinian Territories has impacted the environment in the region

Melissa Pons is a nominated field recordist and award-winning sound designer based in Portugal. Throughout her years of practice, she has independently released field recording albums, music compositi...

YouTube video by Melissa Pons

Melissa Pons is a nominated field recordist and award-winning sound designer based in Portugal. Throughout her years of practice, she has independently released field recording albums, music compositi...

Sound Design, underscore, editing and mixing of audio dramas / fiction podcast. 00:00 | Connections, The Podcast | episode 3: Headlights 01:00 | Liars & Leeches | episode 2: The Way Things Used To Be

Sound Design, underscore, editing and mixing of audio dramas / fiction podcast. 00:00 | Connections, The Podcast | episode 3: Headlights 01:00 | Liars & Leeches | episode 2: The Way Things Used To Be

Researchers in British Columbia catch sea wolves in the act after placing camera to solve mystery of damaged traps

The lovable Star Wars droid is helping to shed light on why some bird species are better at mimicking sounds than others

I had never before thought of the term “mass grave” in reference to more-than-humans but it was the first description that came to mind, and the most apt I have come to since. I was swimming across th...

Red deer at mid distance in the rutting season. The night has fallen and everything seems to have gotten very quiet to listen or give space for this big animal. Its roars fill the space, a large area ...

Quiet Nocturnal Soundscapes is a playlist that invites the listeners to travel through the tranquil nights around the planet. From frogs and nocturnal insects, to the virtuoso nightingale and calm…

From blood-squirting lizard eyes to zombie cockroaches, the natural world is ready for a truly terrifying Halloween.

nature field recordist curator at earth.fm sound designer

The Problem of the Ephemeral

Aquatic recordings of grey dolphins calling and moving in the water of the river Tefé in the Amazonian rainforest in Brazil. On September 19th 2017, I’ve waited and listened to the dolphins with Edina...

A warm October evening in this region is when one is more likely to hear the midwife toad (Alytes) because, even though they can sing throughout the summer, here in Alentejo, the months between June…

A loud, piercing and persistent sound like this is not easy to ignore. The mole cricket (Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa) is one of the loudest in the field. A small (3–5 cm), alien looking insect in the…

What it seemed first like a regular nocturnal soundscape in the early Autumn – here meaning almost everything still feels like Summer – revealed itself a little more interesting: electrifying-like…

Naotong Ranch is a wide and peaceful ranch in deep mountain and river valleys of Shangri-la, China. It’s hard to to get there because there is only a very poor road by local Khampa Tibetan people.…

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

Colombia's Constitutional Court has definitely ordered a ban on bullfighting, but also cockfighting and traditional corralejas and coleo.

Con ello se fortalece la cooperación ambiental y la protección de la segunda selva tropical más grande de América y la más grande de Mesoamérica

from the album Cliffs, Vultures & Cycles of Death

The brushwood in the fields, punctuated by eye-catching oleander, unfriendly to walk in, shows what non-managed land can sound like in this region. It’s summer, it’s 2025 and the heat hovering almost…

What we learned from two weeks filming multiple organisations resisting racism and extractivism in Colombia

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