We record high quality, authentic sound images of distinctive and often threatened natural environments and wildlife. We can aurally capture specific sites and species in a variety of settings, conditions and activities. From raw field recordings, we produce stereo and surround audio for playback in various audio formats. Our sound images can be distributed online, with film, with still photos, and in installations for museums, galleries, and outdoor or indoor office and display spaces. We can also provide text, narration and recorded interview where appropriate.
Conservation Sound can produce anything from a single, rippling wave of surf (much more difficult to record well than you would think) to an entire wildlife environment that never repeats itself and always sounds alive and outdoors… in the northern arboreal forests, or the African savannas, or the dense, wet Amazon. We can build sound image collections of different durations that run alone or are tied to images. We believe that a mix of still images, natural sound and text creates a media blend that can be more focused and powerful even than video. But very fine sound images can create a rich media environment by themselves.
It is important to our work that our backgrounds are in public journalism. A commitment to accuracy guides everything we do. It is easy in the digital world to make things ‘better’ than they really were – bigger, faster, more glamorous. We edit sound productions, just as photographers work on their images. But we do not add elements to an environment that are not genuine to it. We do not distort the essence of a recording site as we found it. If you hear the patter of rain in our images, you can be sure we got wet. All our images are from our actual site-specific location recording, not a sound effects library. We represent and reproduce what is really there. Conservation Sound is built on reputations for accuracy – and fairness – that have stood for decades.
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