95 Suffolk Wood (part 10) - a voyage from dawn to day - spacious and subtle - best with headphones
Day has arrived, and there's no mystery about it. Gone the voids. Gone the echoes. Gone the skewed sense of time, magnified, with distance overlapping. 5am, and it's here and there and all about. The ...
27 Nov 20211h 2min
94 The trees that wait for the chalk stream to flow (natural source of white noise)
Out of the 240 chalk streams globally, 160 are (or were) in England. For a moment, I thought I heard a splosh and the whip of a fishing rod. But how? Ankle deep in dusty soft leaf litter, several yar...
20 Nov 202143min
93 Rain garden after dark (sleep safe)
Rain. Rain falling in the night. Falling in the night when there's nobody about to hear it. Falling onto a little ramshackle garden made up of upturned pots, a patch of leaf scattered concrete, and a ...
13 Nov 202133min
92 Up in the April hills of mid Wales
Up in the April hills of Wales, beside an empty road. Behind the brambles, down a dell, a stream, over bare stone rolls. What sing you mistle thrush? The inbetween of holly trees, is lit by morning ...
6 Nov 202143min
91 When woods go weird
Three years ago we made another overnight recording at the edge of a rural wood. It turned out to be one of those night's when almost nothing stirred, just the faintest susurrations of wind in trees a...
30 Okt 202131min
90 Wind on water, night curlews, rain later (sleep safe)
Deep and spaciously detailed night quiet, at the edge of the tidal river Crouch in rural Essex. Wind on water. Rain on water. Night birds over water. Water upon water. A real piece of time, captured f...
23 Okt 202139min
89 The birds of the leafy ravine - a tonic for tired minds (best with headphones)
We're going back to early June this year, to the rich and intermingled singing of birds that happens at dawn throughout the spring and early summer. In Britain it's called the dawn chorus, a behaviour...
16 Okt 202137min
88 An afternoon at Wrabness (part 2)
Above the mud silt beach, it's all bright clouds, moving. Then the sun breaks through. The river is stretching wide here, left to right, silently carrying the land's outflow through marshes, and out t...
9 Okt 202145min
