CURTIS R

In the early-2000s, building on a long career serving high achievers in music, broadcasting, publishing and business communications, I began tinkering with an altogether new challenge: capturing and sharing the awesome complexities of the natural and man-made soundscapes in the world around us... I soon came face to face with a host of technical and creative hurdles I had never before confronted in decades of high-end studio work. Through considerable trial and error, and with help from some great folks on the Nature Recordists e-mail forum (previously on Yahoo, now on groups.io), I slowly began learning how to deal with many of those obstacles. More importantly, I came to appreciate the fact that ambient soundscape recordings are, at best, imperfect illusions of fleeting realities.