Bookend Recordings Calls For Field Recordings
5.13.15 by Mike Haley

If you’re reading anything on this site, then chances are you’re a bit of a die hard cassette enthusiast. Meaning a wee bit of explanation is probably necessary… So, on the other side of that door is something people refer to as the “outside”. It’s like the inside, only different. It looks different (there aren’t tapes stacked up everywhere), it smells different (for better or worse, depending on where you live), and most importantly to what I’m about to tell you, it SOUNDS different. Tweeting is done by birds, sans character limits. Nature does what comes natural to it. Humans and non-humans scurry about. All constantly producing an audible array that through it’s repetition and routine goes unnoticed. But capture those everyday sounds with a recorder and play them back out of their element, and suddenly you hear previously ignored textures, buzz, and stillness. The charm of the field recording.

Tanner Garza knows what’s up. He’s currently putting together a field recording only cassette compilation on his Houston-based label Bookend Recordings and has an open call for submissions. Here are the details:

• All sources must be field recordings you have made yourself. No other sound sources, please.
• Light processing of sorts will be tolerated, but I ask that it be kept minimal. (Cut up techniques and physical manipulations if working with magnetic tape is absolutely fine)
• Tracks should be no longer than 7 minutes and in WAV format.
• Please have an artist name, track name, when, and where recorded specifically attached to track submitted.
• I will be accepting submissions for 1 ½ to 2 months.
• Everything will be listened to and artists that are chosen will be contacted.

Interested? You have about two months (around mid-July) to get your submission over to bookendrecordings@gmail.com. Godspeed.