A night in Plashes Wood
The full moon was heading towards the west yet still bathing the valley with it’s silvery light from a cloudless sky as I crept passed the last houses in our hamlet and headed north. Trying to avoid the crunching gravel that accumulates in the centre of the lane, I walked…
Cuckoo Dawn
On Hickling Broad
Signposts #3: The London Sound Survey – THAMES
I first came across The London Sound Survey when exploring the backwaters of CaughtBytheRiver.net, the wonderful babbling brook of nature inspired ‘antidotes to indifference’ that I have been visiting now for over a decade. Produced as a labour of love by Ian Rawes, the London Sound Survey documents the sounds…
Sounds of the fens
A playlist of recordings made at Lakenheath over previous springs and as an appetiser to the sounds to be heard on our precious wetlands across the country for the next few weeks – if you can get up early enough!
Friday; early afternoon
A short soundscape from the River Rib, not far from Barwick Ford on Friday.
Wire fence
A piece created from sound recordings from a farm in Mill End near Buntingford, Hertfordshire made over the last two weekends.
With thanks to Annabel and David.
Vall Raven
We first heard rumours that ravens had arrived in the locality last winter and sightings through the spring and summer confirmed a resident presence. As summer started to turn to Autumn a few weeks ago the calls of ravens in the air began to become a regular occurrence around the…
Fallow buck roar
We had been watching badgers emerging from their sett and flocks of corvids swirling across the tree tops as they came into roost at dusk to an island of woods on the South Cambridgeshire plain. Darkness finally falling we walked back along the footpath listening to a calling Barn Owl …
A Nightingale on The Western Front
Chris Watson will premiere ‘A Nightingale on The Western Front’, a multichannel sound composition recorded in various sites of battles in Flanders in Newcastle this November. Chris will present this piece from 5am to 7.30am on the morning of Sunday 11 November on the Boiler Shop Mezzanine, for limited audience…