229 Dusk dissolves to night in the cathedral of trees
On a warm May evening deep in the Forest of Dean, the sound of dusk is alive with birdsong from many different species. The air literally fizzes with the energy produced by avian communications. Their...
20 Jul 202445min
228 Summer rain under the wisteria (sleep safe)
Earlier this week we left the Lento box out to record overnight. Persistent rain was forecast from midnight onwards after a spell of dry weather. We never lose interest in the sound of falling rain. B...
13 Jul 202440min
227 Light rain on the headland (sleep safe)
Being out on a headland is an experience as fresh as it is freeing. Fresh because these steep craggy places resound continuously, without end, with the effects of ocean and wild weather. Freeing, beca...
7 Jul 202444min
226 Perhaps a perfect upland stream (sleep safe)
Perhaps it is, though you may know of one even more perfect. This stream follows a country road high in the empty hills above the small town of Ceri in the Welsh county of Powys. We've shared many sec...
30 Jun 202454min
225 Night suburban garden - quiet sound brutalism (sleep safe)
Night rain, as it falls onto a quiet suburban garden, has a cool and spacious sound-feel. It seems to help focus the mind's eye onto the presence of objects and surfaces that without the rain would si...
23 Jun 202433min
224 Shallow river under an open sky (sleep safe)
Back we go again to Miller's Dale in the Derbyshire hills. To this quiet spot, beside a shallow river wrilling. There's a country lane, and a steep grassy bank down to the river where an old tree grow...
16 Jun 202446min
223 Birdsong in deep forest ambience
Whilst walking up towards the observatory in the Kielder forest, we passed large areas of cleared woodland. "Fallen in the great storm of 2021" a passing forester explained in the afternoon sunshine. ...
8 Jun 202449min
222 The trees of Kielder Forest before dawn
In our quest to capture the pure sound of trees in true spatial quiet, we have without realising it, been following a long and winding path that has ultimately led us here. The Kielder Forest. It's a ...
1 Jun 202451min
