Artist Stories
Inside Nova Hale's Night-Walk Recordings
Priya Raman · 25 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
How a Manchester producer turned two years of 3am field recordings into a debut record.
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Nova Hale records almost everything outdoors, then destroys it indoors.
The walks "I started walking at night because I could not sleep," she says. "The recorder came along because I felt stupid walking with nothing."
The process Field recordings are resampled into a granular engine, pitched into chords, then re-amped through a guitar cabinet in a stairwell.
The record Glass Cathedral is the first thing she has released that she describes as finished.
Priya interviews artists about process rather than press cycles.
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