Interview: Chris Treviño
A new turn around the sun and a new episode, this month’s guest being Chris Treviño, a field recordist and sound designer from Michigan with a background in anthropology and currently pursuing a Masters in Industrial Heritage and Archaeology, focusing on ways of knowing his own town through its sound across its history.
We’re talking about some aspects of sound as heritage and memory as well as its cultural value in which Chris conceptualizes the notion of sonic time capsule, how we humans relate to sound in different contexts and throughout time, and we also talk about his more recent project in the Isle Royale National Park in Michigan, where Chris spent almost two weeks recording while traversing the island by foot.
Please find below all the references mentioned during our conversation:
Video games composers: Yasunori Mitsuda and Nobuo Uematsu (the Chrono Cross and Final Fantasy series)
Steven Feld – Voices From the Rainforest; the Kaluli people
UNESCO heritage designations: https://www.unesco.org/en/lists-designations
The Greek practice of the memory palace: https://artofmemory.com/blog/how-to-build-a-memory-palace/
Antônio Bispo dos Santos: https://futuress.org/community/antonio/
The Tonebenders Podcast episode with Chris: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/277-field-recording-for-the-national-parks-service-with-chris-trevino/
Isle Royale NP: https://www.nps.gov/isro/index.htm
Chris Treviño SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/chrisatrevino
Listen to the full recording of ‘Old Man and Grandson Watch Trains’: https://soundcloud.com/chrisatrevino/old-man-and-grandson-watch-trains
Chris’ official website: https://www.chrisatrevino.com/Connect with Chris on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisatrevino and on X https://x.com/ChrisATrevino
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