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Winterbrook Soundwalk
With time there can grow a confidence in navigating our relationships silently, appreciating the subtleties of body language and enjoying the depth of connection that can come when we do not reduce the world to words.

Richard Bentley
10 hours ago4 min read
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Another Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris
Finding myself in Paris exactly 50 years after Georges Perec, it felt like a timely opportunity to follow in his footsteps.

Richard Bentley
Mar 117 min read
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Care-full Listening Part II
In Part II, drawing parallels with listening at the hospital, I want to move out into the soundscape, then explore expansive awareness.

Richard Bentley
Feb 239 min read
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Care-full Listening Part I
In this post, I’d like to explore a vital orientation in contemplative field recording, that of care-full listening.

Richard Bentley
Jan 146 min read
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Spirituality and Field Recording as a Contemplative Practice
I’ve never been able to escape a sense that my experience of meaning and fulfilment is bound up with what could be called the spiritual life

Richard Bentley
Dec 10, 20246 min read
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