Foley Room

Foley Room is the sixth studio album by Brazilian electronic music producer Amon Tobin, released on March 5, 2007, through Ninja Tune.

According to the Ninja Tune website, "Amon and a team of assistants headed out into the streets with high sensitivity microphones and recorded found sounds from tigers roaring to cats eating rats, neighbours singing in the bath to ants eating grass".

On the other hand, I always saw a divide between music that was based purely on sound design and tunes that were written to physically move people.

A challenge for me has been to try and make 'tunes' using aspects of sound design normally associated with highbrow academic studies in this area.

I don't know how successful I've been but that was a goal anyway.Among the many field recordings captured by Tobin for the album include the sounds of wild animals, "roaring motorcycles, grinding chains, the crisp clashing of automated machinery, the delicate tiptoeing of ants, dripping water and clacking train tracks.