Melissa Pons

Melissa Pons

@melissapons.bsky.social

nature field recordist in the countryside curator earth.fm ///🌲🌾 sound designer @HemCreekProd New release 'Of Wolves and People': https://nilsmosh.bandcamp.com/album/of-wolves-and-people-2 http://melissapons.com

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Melissa Pons
@melissapons.bsky.social

In celebration of the Equinox, while wrapping recordings from the Peruvian Amazon, use code 'mequinox' on any and all my bandcamp releases. Additional 20% if you get the entire discography. Let the Equinox be a true beginning of how we want to build the future now! melissapons.bandcamp.com

melissapons.bandcamp.commelissa ponsMelissa Pons is a nominated field recordist and award-winning sound designer based in Portugal. Throughout her years of practice, she has independently released field recording albums, music compositions upon commissions and her work has been streamed and featured in several media, like the BBC and NPR. Her work orbits around the more-than-human-world and our complex relationship with it.
Melissa Pons
@melissapons.bsky.social

Life is everywhere: life is resilient but we must listen to it, take time to breath it, feel it, turn to it respectfully and acknowledge the people who know the lands, their paths, their plants, their animals. There is where life resides, not in technological promises or plastic futures or museums.

Melissa Pons
@melissapons.bsky.social

Amazing to meet and talk to Jakub about his work, which is incredibly poetic. Nature field recording is much bigger than what it seems and Jakub is one of those artists who naturally show that with his own philosophy, knowledge and approach. I highly recommend listening to this episode!

Earth.fm@earth-fm.bsky.social

Our last podcast episode of 2025 couldn't be better with our guest Jakub Orzęcki, a field recordist based in Poland. Highly poetic, intentional and knowledgeable, this interview is the right inspiration and spirit to cross to the new year. earth.fm/podcast/jaku...

earth.fmInterview: Jakub Orzęcki - earth.fm“I try to find places that still carry a bit of this […] feeling that […] something might be watching
Melissa Pons
@melissapons.bsky.social

Thanks so much to everyone who has shared this! Things got complicated a bit suddenly. To anyone who is interested I'm offering 30% discount on my entire bandcamp collection with the code 'thankyou'. melissapons.bandcamp.com

melissapons.bandcamp.commelissa ponsMelissa Pons is a nominated field recordist and award-winning sound designer based in Portugal. Throughout her years of practice, she has independently released field recording albums, music compositi...
Melissa Pons@melissapons.bsky.social

Hey all! I'm urgently looking for an audio editing / sound design gig from now until end of January or ongoing if part-time. I'm very experienced in voice editing (incl dialogue in film) and I love doing sound design for audio drama. Here's my reel. Reaper + iZtpRX soundcloud.com/melissapons/...

soundcloud.comAudio Drama Sound Design ReelSound Design, underscore, editing and mixing of audio dramas / fiction podcast. 00:00 | Connections, The Podcast | episode 3: Headlights 01:00 | Liars & Leeches | episode 2: The Way Things Used To Be

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Melissa Pons
@melissapons.bsky.social

Hey all! I'm urgently looking for an audio editing / sound design gig from now until end of January or ongoing if part-time. I'm very experienced in voice editing (incl dialogue in film) and I love doing sound design for audio drama. Here's my reel. Reaper + iZtpRX soundcloud.com/melissapons/...

soundcloud.comAudio Drama Sound Design ReelSound Design, underscore, editing and mixing of audio dramas / fiction podcast. 00:00 | Connections, The Podcast | episode 3: Headlights 01:00 | Liars & Leeches | episode 2: The Way Things Used To Be
Melissa Pons
@melissapons.bsky.social

Hey all! I'm urgently looking for an audio editing / sound design gig from now until end of January or ongoing if part-time. I'm very experienced in voice editing (incl dialogue in film) and I love doing sound design for audio drama. Here's my reel. Reaper + iZtpRX soundcloud.com/melissapons/...

soundcloud.comAudio Drama Sound Design ReelSound Design, underscore, editing and mixing of audio dramas / fiction podcast. 00:00 | Connections, The Podcast | episode 3: Headlights 01:00 | Liars & Leeches | episode 2: The Way Things Used To Be

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli
@banditelli.org

WOW! I've been seeing a medium sized murder of crows on my way to my pelican sunset location, about 40-50, and I've thought about stopping, but never had the time. Today I had an extra 20 minutes and while driving past I saw WAY more crows AND them swooping on GULLS! I stopped. And got these. 🪶 ⚔️

Melissa Pons
@melissapons.bsky.social

Editing my album on the red deer (Iberian & European), thinking of new beginnings (conjectured by a double rainbow) and preparing my field recording trip to S. America, I'm offering 30% discount on all and any purchase on bandcamp w/ code thankyou 💫 melissapons.bandcamp.com earth.fm/recordings/i...

earth.fmIberian Red Deer in the Night - earth.fmRed deer at mid distance in the rutting season. The night has fallen and everything seems to have gotten very quiet to listen or give space for this big animal. Its roars fill the space, a large area ...

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Earth.fm
@earth-fm.bsky.social

New playlist, curated by @melissapons.bsky.social, Quiet Nocturnal Soundscapes From frogs and insects, to the virtuoso nightingale and calm ocean shores, from different forest biomes, deserts and wetlands. earth.fm/playlists/qu...

earth.fmQuiet Nocturnal Soundscapes - earth.fmQuiet Nocturnal Soundscapes is a playlist that invites the listeners to travel through the tranquil nights around the planet. From frogs and nocturnal insects, to the virtuoso nightingale and calm…

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ConstantLittleGhost
@conslittleghost.bsky.social

If there's one thing I'd hope the music community learns from Leave Spotify it's this: The signs were there for years but we acted too slow. Artists are broke. The LLM has its dataset for AI slop. Ek has made his billions and reinvested in AI+war. The damage is done. Next time we must move faster.

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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS
@euanritchie.bsky.social

My article about 'spooky' wildlife and some of their most gruesome and macabre behaviours, but also how to celebrate Halloween far more sustainably! This also marks my 100th article for @aunz.theconversation.com 🎉 🥳. theconversation.com/lets-celebra...

theconversation.comLet’s celebrate nature’s spookiest and freakiest animals this HalloweenFrom blood-squirting lizard eyes to zombie cockroaches, the natural world is ready for a truly terrifying Halloween.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈
@whysharksmatter.bsky.social

Sharks absolutely get cancer, and people claiming otherwise are pseudoscientific grifters preying on the desperate. Even if sharks did not get cancer, eating shark would not cure your cancer any more than eating LeBron James would make you better at basketball.

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Sarah 🎙️🎧🎵
@polarityaudioworks.bsky.social

As I'm doing adjudication for an #audiodrama festival it's baffling how many are compressing the 🤬 out of their master that it sounds overbaked/crispy/distorted Don't do that. You're ruining all your hard work of sound designing, #editing and #mixing by crisping the overall tone

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Earth.fm
@earth-fm.bsky.social

New on Earth.FM by @felixblume.bsky.social "Aquatic recordings of grey dolphins calling and moving in (...) the river Tefé in the Amazonian rainforest in Brazil. (...) I’ve waited and listened to the dolphins with Edinaldo and Janilson from the community of Tauary." earth.fm/recordings/a...

earth.fmAmazonian Dolphin - earth.fmAquatic recordings of grey dolphins calling and moving in the water of the river Tefé in the Amazonian rainforest in Brazil. On September 19th 2017, I’ve waited and listened to the dolphins with Edina...
Melissa Pons
@melissapons.bsky.social

Thank you, Serge! 🪐

Serge Bulat@sergebulat.bsky.social

Sound, nature, and memory. A conversation with Earth.FM about recording bees, red deer, and preserving vanishing sonic identities. Thanks to @melissapons.bsky.social & @earth-fm.bsky.social for the inspiring exchange. 🎧 earth.fm/podcast/inte... #soundart #fieldrecording

earth.fmInterview: Serge Bulat - earth.fm“I welcome every noise around me. No matter what it is: a duck, a fish, a deer farting. […] You

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jamelle
@jamellebouie.net

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

apnews.comStarving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across MyanmarU.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.