About Andy Martin

Wildlife and Nature Sounds Field Recordist, Sound Designer

Shhhhh, Listening to Nature.

[whispers] Award-winning sound designer and field recordist Andy Martin first discovered sound design while attending Berklee College of Music back in (ancient days). He’s since crisscrossed the United States making nifty noises for film, television, video games, commercials, VR, libraries, and more. First and foremost he’s a field recordist. When looking for him, you’ll most likely need to check in a local forest, murky swamp, distant jungle, or possibly standing in the middle of a railroad track. He’s probably listening for birds and insects, stalking railways for excellent train pass-bys, and generally putting microphones places they shouldn’t go.

After nine years at Sucker Punch Productions making inFamous super-powers and two more years at Oculus in Seattle making VR and 3D spatial audio sounds, Andy began freelancing full-time as a field recordist and sound designer for companies like Skywalker Sound, Sony, Polyarc Games, ArenaNet, Compulsion Games, and more. He’s also slowly documenting the natural sounds of the United States’ Pacific Northwest. Feel free to take a listen and follow along at https://AndyMartinSound.com

Recently Andy has been commissioned to record wildlife and natural sounds in such diverse habitats as Louisiana swamps, Costa Rican cloud forests, and Peruvian rainforests, where his work is being used in vital research to document both biodiversity and forest health in secondary growth reforestation projects such as https://manubio.org

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