277 Emptiness within Shelve Wood at night - part II (sleep safe)
This week we're returning to Shelve Wood in Shropshire to witness another hour from the unaccompanied overnight capture we made in June. This section of time includes the effects of a strong weather f...
31 Jul 20251h 2min
276 First rain after drought (high definition spatial sound)
It's not often we record from the back garden. The spot is suburban. Grassy and full of tangled shrubs yes, and encircled by a sprawling wisteria too that visually at least gives a verdantly self cont...
22 Jul 202532min
275 Dawn in an apple tree - Derbyshire hills
A bright April day has dawned in Derbyshire earlier in the spring. The air is unusually still for this time of year and this upland location. At just under a thousand feet barely a breeze is ruffling ...
13 Jul 202544min
274 Burgh Island midnight tide (sleep safe)
(pronounced Birr Island) This long, slow Devon day, is drawing softly to a close. Looking out to sea, the sky beyond has already fallen velvet black. It's midnight. Scattered lamps shine on Burgh Isla...
3 Jul 20251h 1min
273 Sunset fields and oak trees - spring in Shropshire
Oak trees have a very particular sound this time of year. It's to do with the leaves. Their texture, shape and contours. How they catch and filter the breeze. On a warm spring day, like this one the L...
25 Jun 202556min
272 Emptiness within Shelve Wood at night (sleep safe)
Experiencing the spatial sense of emptiness, in a natural place, when there's nobody about, endlessly fascinates us. We built a high resolution immersive sound capture device to study it. We find natu...
16 Jun 202555min
271 Wild breezes in the reeds - spring along the Thames Estuary
This soundscene was captured two weeks ago from a rackety wooden fence beside a grass meadow. Reeds are growing to right of scene, waving and hushing in strong gusts of spring warm wind. Centre, a vie...
4 Jun 202530min
270 Soundscene from Northward Hill Nature Reserve featuring a nightingale
Whilst out along the Kent side of the Thames Estuary on Saturday, aiming to capture the sound of skylarks and reeds, we met a walker with a very friendly border terrier. She told us there was talk of ...
26 Mai 202519min
