Ears To The Ground explores the deep and growing connection between field recordings, electronic music, and landscape. From global headliners to underground experimenters, artists are increasingly turning to found sounds — from forests, city streets, coastlines, and even archaeological sites — to bring emotional resonance and real-world texture to their music.

This engaging and beautifully written book documents how musicians across the UK, Ireland, and beyond use field recording to reflect nature, folklore, and place. It reveals the powerful ways in which recorded sound can evoke memory, shape identity, and reimagine our relationship to the environment through electronics.

A vital read for producers, composers, sound artists and fans of ambient, experimental and ecological soundwork.