Martyn Stewart

Name: Martyn Stewart

Age: 52

Birthday: April 3rd

College: UK

Most inspirational person: David Attenborough

Favorite Movie: Living Sea

Favorite Food: Indian

Favorite Quote: a picture tells a thousand words a sound tells a thousand pictures. (Bernie Krause)



Martyn Stewart is an audio/naturalist specializing in location and field recordings, mostly for natural history documentaries. Many of these documentaries have been broadcast on BBC television and radio. His nature recordings have also found their way onto CDs, bio-acoustic study data ollction research, and commissioned field work acquisitions.

Historically his work includes Television, Location and Studio operations: Drama, features and documentaries, (16mm and videotape). News gathering. Post production experience in transfer, selection and track laying with film and video using AMS Audio file and AVID audio vision. Familiarity with all current synchronisation systems. Drama, features and documentaries.

He has collaborated with Subhanker Banerjee and others on the CD/book combination, Arctic Wings (Mountaineer, 2006) and has a collection of podcasts, CD albums, publications and more available through retail venues and his on-line site.


Martyn was a member of the Wild Sanctuary research team for The Arctic SoundScape Project, Arctic National Wildiife Refuge, AK, 2006/

Member of the Wild Sanctuary research team for the Katmai NP Project, Alaska, 2007/

As of June 2005, I primarily use:

Sound devices 722 & 744 recorders.

MKH-20 microphones

MKH-30 microphones

MKH-40 microphones

MKH-60 microphones

MKH-80 microphones.

Telinga Mics