Melissa Pons

A very little sneak peak into my nature field recording work along the years.

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melissa pons Melissa 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...

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Thank you! I keep thinking of getting some kind of camera sometime. There are so many beautiful things where I live. Maybe when things stabilize. 😅

YouTube video by Melissa Pons Sound Design - Audio Drama Reel 2025 - Melissa Pons

My audio drama reel with shows from 2024 and 2025.

The first two samples (Connections and Liars & Leeches) showcase best non-literal sound design, with strong scenarios and emotional cues, while the following are more representative of literal editing.

Thank you for watching!

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Awsome stuff!

Sometimes it is yes, and never mind how one often needs to sell themselves on social media to get work and projects going.

Toy photography seems really cool!!! 😁 Is there somewhere for others to see?

Glad to know you've been ok! 💚 It's already a victory in 2025

Thank you so much, Ian!
It's not looking promising at all and it's a terrible time in the year to find a new audio gig, I think.
I'm looking for other options and making my best at budgeting.

I hope you have been doing well! 💫

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'.

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Audio Drama Sound Design Reel Sound 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

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

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Audio Drama Sound Design Reel Sound 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

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/...

a gull crying out as a crow is on its tail, right after presumably physically connecting

about half a second before the previous shot, where the gull is yelling and you can see the crow even closer

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. 🪶 ⚔️

Raiders of the lobster pot: Canadian wolves learn to loot crab traps for bait Researchers in British Columbia catch sea wolves in the act after placing camera to solve mystery of damaged traps

The high intelligence of wolves. Watch this wolf figure out how to swim out and haul in a crab trap

These Birds Learned to Tweet Like R2-D2. Listen to the Uncanny Results The lovable Star Wars droid is helping to shed light on why some bird species are better at mimicking sounds than others

Please do yourselves a favor and listen to these birds mimic R2-D2. (And learn something about how some species are able to do it better than others!)

(by Kate Graham-Shaw for @sciam.bsky.social)

Tangled Up I had never before thought of the term “mass grave” in reference to more-than-humans but it was the first description that came to mind, and the most apt I have come to since. I was swimming across th...

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Iberian Red Deer in the Night - earth.fm Red 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 ...

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 💫
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Quiet Nocturnal Soundscapes - earth.fm Quiet 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…

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.

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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.

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

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 🎉 🥳.

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These people are our enemies.

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.

Fruition nature field recordist curator at earth.fm sound designer

On creating and hyper-focusing

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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

From the Philosophy of Sound to Philosophy in Sound: Christoph Cox’s "Sonic Flux" and the Via Negativa The Problem of the Ephemeral

To philosophize in sound is to embrace withdrawal, to think not about the unsayable but from within it. #PhilSky
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Beautiful

Amazonian Dolphin - earth.fm Aquatic 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...

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."

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Midwife toads and tawny owls mating calls - earth.fm A warm October evening in this region is when one is more likely to hear the midwife toad (Alytes) because, even though they can sing throughout the summer, here in Alentejo, the months between June…

Quiet and lovely nocturnal sounds with mating calls of midwife toads and tawny owls 🌙

Recording by @melissapons.bsky.social

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Mole Cricket - earth.fm A loud, piercing and persistent sound like this is not easy to ignore. The mole cricket (Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa) is one of the loudest in the field. A small (3–5 cm), alien looking insect in the…

New recording!

They are loud, they are acoustic engineers and builders: the mole cricket!

Field recording by @melissapons.bsky.social

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Titillating Nocturnal Insects - earth.fm What it seemed first like a regular nocturnal soundscape in the early Autumn – here meaning almost everything still feels like Summer – revealed itself a little more interesting: electrifying-like…

Quiet but electrifying! 🌙

Field recording by @melissapons.bsky.social

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Thank you, Serge! 🪐

Tonight at 10pm (GMT+1) performances from sound art residency Endless Fields. 💫

With Cameron Randall, Iddo Aharony, Stefan Arrigoni M, Anna Clock, Tiago M C de Sousa, Ivo Louro, Melissa Pons, and Xavier Velastín.

www.resonancefm.com/schedule