Field Audio Recording Final Project: Ode to a Turbine Listen to my final edited piece HERE The most notable and obvious challenge concerning the recording of a wind farm is without fail going to be wind noise. Upon my first visit to the Rolling Hills Wind Farm I was not nearly equipped with enough wind protection to gather the recordings necessary to capture my environment. When I returned to the wind farm for a second time I made sure to obtain a more robust and effective way to block wind noise while getting a good clean recording. While my stereo microphone was able to get a wide image of the wind farms ambient environment it was the shotgun mic in a wind blimp that gathered the most successful and powerful recordings. Utilizing the tools and techniques I had learned throughout the semester I gathered as many at length recordings as I could of the various scale, detail and orientations of the wind turbines themselves and the surro...