Melissa Pons

YouTube video by Melissa Pons Night in the Atlantic Forest - Sounds of Rain and Frogs

30 minutes of rain in the precious Atlantic Forest and a *very cute* chorus of frogs.

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A cute cat also heard it :)

💚🐸🦗🌴 Thank you, Loula!! I was listening to some of your work recently in the Atlantic Forest clay and wooden house I was in :) It was a good match

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.

Nocturnal Sounds of the Atlantic Forest, by Melissa Pons 14 track album

It's been almost 9 years since my first release "Nocturnal Sounds of the Atlantic Forest" and I just been recording there again (unplanned, though!), in a very well preserved area, with more maturity and better listening.

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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 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.

Today is bandcamp Friday and you can get all my discography with 20% off. 💚

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1 million signatures for Palestine ! As we speak, Israel has banned dozens of humanitarian organisations, blocked life-saving aid, and dismantled the last lifelines for people in Gaza. Children are starving. Hospitals have been destroyed...

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I've been posting some recordings from the Atlantic Forest in Brazil, in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, where half of my family is from.

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I never expected magical "ancestor" insights but there are magical hypnotizing sounds:

Penguins Don’t Belong in Basements Fifteen penguins are trapped underground in central London, cut off from sunlight and outdoor access.SEA LIFE London Aquarium keeps them in a windowless basement, pacing under harsh artificial lights

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Cervus, by melissa pons 8 track album

My new field recording album is available for pre-order! 🦌

Recorded in Portugal and in France, two species of red deer, two different habitats. Powerful acoustics, very intense vocalisations!

Use code 18jan for 50% off until Jan 18th.

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I don't find anything and I'm quite sensitive to anything sound. What is it that you hear?

December Solstice - earth.fm Celebrate December’s Solstice with beautiful natural soundscapes spanning continents and across hemispheres. For some, it’s the longest night of the

December Solstice across the world! 🌏

A playlist by multidisciplinary artist Cameron Randall.

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Gibbons in the Morning - earth.fm After attempting a crossing of Borneo in 1993 I became enthralled by the rain forest and all its wonderful sounds. Since then I’ve spent many months camping solo in the forests of Sumatra and…

Remarkable sound recording in Taman Negara, Peninsular Malaysia, from 1994: Gibbons in the Morning

This field recording has been made by Corrie Schffer.

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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!

Impacts on nature of Israel’s occupation of Palestine & the Gaza war Earth.fm explores how the war in Gaza & Israel’s illegal occupation of the Palestinian Territories has impacted the environment in the region

New blog post by Neil Clarke that explores the "dimension of the Gaza war and Israel’s illegal occupation of the Palestinian Territories" particularly on its environmental effects.

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

Use code 'thankyou' for30% off + 20% for the whole discography!

The entire fee today goes to the artists!

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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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Directly support your favourite artists.

Use code 'thankyou' for 30% off on any and all purchases + 20% if you get the whole discography.

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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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