Intro ; PART ONE: UK AND IRELAND. Collaborating with nature: Scotland and the music of Erland Cooper, Lord of the Isles and Proc Fiskal : Orkney and Edinburgh ; Woven together: Leafcutter John and Oliver Payne's Norfolk : The Norfolk Coast Path and Great Yarmouth ; Seeping into the music: Ultramarine and Broken Atoms’ Essex : Blackwater Estuary and Chelmsford ; Brutal beauty: the strange blend of nature and rusted industry in the music of Langham Research Centre and Broken English Club : Orford Ness, Suffolk; Dungeness, Kent ; Portals: Wales in the music of Llyn Y Cwn and Flora Yin-Wong : Snowdonia, Anglesey and Machynlleth ; Remixing the world, one sound at a time: Stuart Fowkes Cities and Memory sound map : Oxford, UK; worldwide ; Audio Actions and truths: city sounds, foley and politics in the work of Kate Carr and Matthew Herbert : London, Margate; worldwide ; Breathing life into the music: Kayla Painter's adventurous electronics : Bristol ; Sonic galaxies: Ireland in the work of Claire Guerin and Natalia Beylis : Cork City and County Leitrim, Ireland ; Opening our ears: the atmospheric location recordings and sound art of Chris Watson : Sheffield; Newcastle; worldwide ; Memory at your fingertips: past and future combine in the music of Haiku Salut and The Memory Band : Derbyshire Dales, Surrey, London ; Listening in: the internal worlds of Scanner : London; worldwide ; PART TWO: AROUND THE WORLD. Intermission: pioneers of field recording, electronic music and sound art ; Deep listening: the ambient worlds and sound art of KMRU and Nyokabi Karitiki : Nairobi; Berlin; New York ; World wide: dance music, found sounds, and cultural heritage ; Memories of the future: Heinali’s Kyiv : Ukraine ; Music or noise: the sound surgery of Matmos : Baltimore and San Francisco, USA ; Around the globe with Lawrence English : Brisbane, Australia; worldwide ; The next wave: the most innovative upcoming musicians mixing electronic music and field recording ; Outro: field recordings and the future

Ears To the Ground explores how electronic music producers and sound artists use field recordings and samples to document their environments. Author Ben Murphy takes you on a journey to discover how field recordings can create context, emotion, atmosphere, humour and meaning - and examine the most pressing topics of our times.