303 The hypnotic passage of a dredger heading up the estuary towards Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex
Here's something different to accompany this episode - an account of the aural happenings as the passage of time progresses. We collected this soundscape just east of Burnham-on-Crouch in Essex last w...
1 Nov 1h
302 Soundscenes of rolling thunder over the Pyrenees (possibly sleep safe)
Cicadas seem to go quiet when the rain sets in. They probably need to keep themselves dry to be able to make their sound. In this landscape recording we made in early August nearly all of the cicadas ...
30 Sep 50min
300 Suffolk maize field in coastal breezes
As the land bakes under the hot August sun, the heat rises and so draws cooler air in from over the sea. The resulting breeze is always fresh, and can flow quite strongly even when it isn't windy anyw...
13 Aug 55min
299 Owls of Big Wood (sleep safe with owls)
Night woodland. Sonorous owls. Soft nocturnal breezes catching high in the broad-leafed trees. A panoramic woodland in spatial sound, collected by the Lento box alone. Always so fascinating to us is h...
14 Juli 50min
298 Thunderstorm over sonorous rural woodland (warning - sudden shock thunderclaps)
Last month on the evening of 26 May a huge lightning storm centred over a remote wooded area on the Leicestershire-Rutland border where we had left the Lento box alone to record. From where we were st...
20 Juni 1h 32min
297 Sonorous rural woodland before an approaching storm
Last week we took the Lento box to capture the natural soundscapes of rural Leicestershire and Rutland. Our visit coincided with the warmest May temperatures on record and as it turned out the most po...
2 Juni 1h 1min
296 Looking out on Portland Harbour part 2
Here beneath the tree again, at the water's edge. Looking out on Portland Harbour. Left of scene the sunlit parapets of Nothe Fort. Ahead the flat sun-drenched sea, with lazy waves rolling in over hal...
11 Maj 44min
