About

What I love to record:

I like to record ambiences.

By ambiences, I mean the overall soundscape of a place — not individual sounds recorded in isolation.

Wild nature, mysterious silence in liminal spaces, the sounds of everyday life - every environment has its own voice.

Most of the time, I try to avoid human presence in my nature recordings. But it isn’t a strict rule. Sometimes human activity is simply part of a place and adds another layer to its character.

And then there are cities - frenetic, dense and full of overlapping sounds. In their own way, they can sound surprisingly similar to a jungle in the middle of the night.

How I record:

I let the environment unfold

It takes time for an environment to reveal itself. People appear and disappear, wind shifts, birds move through the space, distant sounds come closer and fade again. I pay attention to rhythm, repetition, silence, contrast and density, and I want these changes to remain part of the recording.

How I work:

I take responsibility for the whole product

For me, the work doesn’t end with the recording. I care about the whole product - from the quality of the audio to how it is organised, described and delivered. If I start something, I want to bring it to a proper finish.

I think from the listener’s side

I try to look at every library from the other side - whether it is clear, useful and easy to work with. I want to create something I would be happy to buy and use myself.

I do it because I want to

Soundweekends is not something I have to do. It is something I choose to spend my time, energy and money on. I love the process itself - travelling, listening, recording and gradually turning an idea into something that can remain even for future generations.

Why I do this:

To experience

Soundweekends gives me a reason to step outside my usual life, go somewhere I might never have gone otherwise, and experience the world differently. It makes me slow down, contemplate and follow the flow.

To preserve

Years later, sound recordings can bring back a particular moment, atmosphere and period of my own life. These are things I don’t want to let disappear with time. Over the years, I want Soundweekends to become a record of the world as I heard it - something I can return to myself and leave for future generations.

To share

I want to share these sounds and see them become part of the worlds other people create - in films, games and other forms of storytelling. In that way, something I heard and recorded in one place can become part of what someone else hears and experiences somewhere completely different.