About The Author

MiE Fielding pictured at Foyle Riding in 2024. The former home of Beatrice Harrison.

Author MiE Fielding at Foyle Riding in 2024 at the 100th year anniversary of Beatrice Harrison's famous Nightingale and cello performance. The BBC's first ever live outside broadcast. Fielding was invited to record the centenary performance for the Beatrice Harrison Trust archive.

MiE Fielding at the Halberstadt performance of John Cage Organ2/ASLAP

Sound Art

The author at St Burchardi church Halberstadt (former East Germany) for the 639 year long performance of John Cage's ORGAN2/ASLAP

MiE Fielding recording bird song in Northumberland.

Location recording

The author recording bird sound on the River Coquet Northumberland. Mike is also the author of two bird related books.

An exhibition of MiE Fielding's art at Newcastle-Upon-Tyne City Library.

Exhibitions

The author has exhibited at numerous galleries. This photo was taken at Newcastle City Library for the launch of 'The River Coquet : A Personal portait of the birds, wildlife and history'. ISBN 978-1838280963 Tyne Bridge Publishing

MiE (Mike) Fielding

MiE (aka Mike Fielding) is an English avant-garde musician, sound and visual artist, ornithologist, author and photographer specialising in a style of Abstract Expressionism.

He is also known for art projects, sound art and books including, 'Aves Elektron:Death of the Nightingale', 'The Birds of Coquetdale', 'The Closest Thing to Heaven', 'The Sound of a Landscape' series, 'The River Coquet a personal view of the birds, wildlife and history', and 'Taking pictures of people taking pictures of... Art,Smartphones and Society of the Spectacle'. '. He has pursued a lifelong passion for ornithology and environmental issues, and recorded bird sounds throughout Europe. His work with sound art duo dumdum Score was featured by the legendary Bill Furlong in Audio Arts - now archived in the Tate Modern. He is an active environmental campaigner, fundraiser and RSPB species sponsor. Mike lives in Northumberland. Further sound works and publications can be found here

Taking Pictures of people taking pictures of..Art, Smartphones and Society of the Spectacle'.

MIE Fielding on Bandcamp

Immersive

Check out the MiE Fielding Bandcamp page. There are both wildlife sound recordings, and 'Sound Art' productions. All the works on this site are generally mixed and designed for use with headphones as many are immersive and not really suited for passive 'hearing'. It has often been said that there is a huge difference between hearing and actual listening,

Sound of the Landscape

Sound of a Landscape compositions are generally recorded to an ambisonic system. We use both the Rode NTSF-1 soundfield microphone and the more portable Zoom H3VR system. The finished sound is then rendered into binaural stereo specifically designed for headphones. This gives a spatial impression as if the listener is at the location. Some compositions are recorded in wide stereo , or ORTF technique.

Poetry

The Sound of a Landscape poetry pieces are immersive sound coupled with a reading of the poetry.

Click the BANDCAMP page opposite to explore more sound.

The Sound of a Landscape