Capturing the image of capturing the sound: documentarian Nicholas Sherman on field recordist Gordon Hempton

Published: Oct. 29, 2010, 10:18 p.m.

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Colin Marshall talks to documentary filmmaker Nicholas Sherman, director of Soundtracker: A Portrait of Gordon Hempton. Hempton, one of the world\\u2019s best-known field recordists, has dedicated his life to traveling the United States and the world to create \\u201csound portraits\\u201d of distinctive places. In Soundtracker, Sherman follows Hempton\\u2019s road trip in his 1964 VW bus which becomes a quest to capture the sounds of a train and a songbird together.

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