Welcome: I'm Kevin Sample. I live in the Northfield neighborhood of Austin, Texas, and I'm an amateur phonographer. Now, you're probably wondering what phonography is. It's an endeavor not many people are familiar with, and a relatively new term, encompassing the arts of location recording, "nature recording," and composition. Most of what I do could be called field recording; my particular focus is the collecting of sound with the intent of capturing some unique aspect of a place or event that may escape our ordinary attentions. These sounds may or may not be manipulated for other (compositional) ends.

My aim here, in particular, is to present my own unique and perhaps peculiar view of my sonic neighborhood, and bring to the foreground some of the sounds we edit out of our everyday perceptual world. I hope it will be an enlightening experience--it certainly was (and continues to be) for me.