139 Old rafters brewing storm
At the top of the old Victorian house are several flights of dim, dark stairs. Steep. Narrow. Cold. They lead up to a pair of rarely used attic rooms. As you climb, you feel the dust on the banisters....
29 Okt 202235min
138 Ocean peace above Folkestone beach (sleep safe)
Dusk gathering, we found a stony path, and followed it. Microphones still in the rucksack. It'd been a long day, and we still hadn't found the right place to record. Time. Night approaching. Two pair...
22 Okt 202231min
137 Night rains amongst moorland trees (sleep safe)
Up a soily slope, almost too steep to climb, nestled in against the smooth trunk of a tree, the microphones are recording. Recording the sound of solitude. Dry inside their weatherproof box. Listenin...
15 Okt 202234min
136 Curling folding breaking waves (high-definition sound and sleep safe)
Wide silent sky. Still warm air. Having followed a country footpath across miles of open farmland you reach a stony bank and, like a natural magic trick, it leads you down onto a deserted, shingle bea...
8 Okt 202227min
135 A natural sound report from the Forest of Dean
This is a segment of time from a clearing deep in the Forest of Dean. Echoing birds in full voice. Soft hushing breezes in high treetops. Then, over time, a band of fresh summer rain, falling in rich ...
1 Okt 202226min
134 Night waves rolling onto Coldingham Sands (sleep safe)
Up steep steps from the sandy beach, and a birds-ear view of ocean breakers from a thicket, perched half-way up the cliff. Several hours to go before low tide. Directly ahead slow rolling waves, break...
24 Sep 202235min
133 Vivid rain - rolling thunder (very spatial experience with headphones)
A rare night amongst nights. A dark landscape, subdued, beneath immense and invisible storm clouds. It's just past eleven thirty on Monday the fifth of September 2022. The kitchen was in darkness. The...
17 Sep 202228min
132 A bird watcher’s outpost beneath the telegraph wires
Warm sunlit afternoon. Late August. On the nature reserve at Mucking, beside the Thames in Essex. A bird hide. Perched on a steep bank amongst reeds, looking out on a strip of newly exposed mud. Tide ...
10 Sep 202241min
