Melissa Pons is a 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 personal works orbits around the more-than-human-world and our complex relationship with it. One will find oneiric elements in her field recordings, since her own frequent bizarre dreams of wild animals are a big source of inspiration for thinking, listening, writing, making music and the landscapes she seeks. But most importantly, she just enjoys being outside and create as she pleases. Over the years she became an absolute perfectionist with her practice and thriving for excellency with the recordings she shares with the world. Everything is about listening.
Currently she’s working as a curator and podcast producer at the streaming platform earth.fm and works seasonally with sound design for audio dramas at Hemlock Creek Productions.