Sound mosaics for a broken world

Recordings of a sound installation situated in the ancient woodland of Holt Forest National Nature Reserve, Dorset, UK. The installation featured a series of piano chords diffused on an array of 16 small stereo speaker systems, in an attempt to explore the harmonics of a forest. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A sound mosaic recorded at the Carrifran Wildwood, southern Scotland, on an event to mark the 25th anniversary of the first tree planting on the site. The area was formerly bare hillside, having been deforested in antiquity through the results of thousands of years of sheep and cattle farming. The Wildwood project has successfully established native woodland across the entire subcatchment, and as...

An interview with Thomas Haynes, who is both a plant ecologist and an experimental musician, working under the moniker Grasslands. The conversation explores how his interests coincide, in multiple interesting ways. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A soundwalk around Holt Heath National Nature Reserve in Dorset, UK, during the Spring of 2025. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

An interview with the environmental sound artists Blanc Sceol (Stephen Shiell and Hannah White), who work on the boundaries between sound, listening and performance, while fostering a reciprocal relationship with ecological communities. Their compositions, interventions and performances are strongly grounded in their sense of place, an an awareness of how human impacts are shaping environments. Mu...

Ecopoetry offers the possibility of writing creatively about the environment, and strengthening our connection with it. But what is ecopoetry? And more importantly, how might one create it? This show documents the beginning of our journey to learn how to become ecopoets, and the obstacles we encountered along the way - as well as the fun we had. Many thanks to Helen Moore of Wild Ways to Writing f...

Field recordings of a launch event for Waterdrop and river / run , two collaborative ecopoetry books focusing on rivers. With readings from poets Clare Whistler, Kay Syrad and Helen Moore, hosted at The Watershed, Dorset, UK. This is a an ecologically designed experimental station for climate-focused residencies, and the HQ of Cape Farewell . The Watershed lies on the Sydling Water, which can be h...

“Kankyō ongaku” is Japanese for “environmental music,” but also refers to a genre of electronic ambient music that developed in Japan in the 1980s. Field recordings were typically blended with minimalist melodies performed with synthesizers of the time. The music has its roots in the ambient music of Brian Eno, and the furniture music of Erik Satie, but has its own distinctive Japanese sensibility...

‘ Medway tales: entangled human and other-than-human voices ’ was co-created by sound artist Adrian Newton in collaboration with More-Than-Human researchers Valerie Nelson and Victoria Leslie, together with the River Medway and its pilgrims. Many thanks also to Toby Edwards for Medway recordings. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

'The museum of failure' is a term that has been used to describe the accumulation of old vinyl records in charity shops. Strangely, wherever you are in the world, these abandoned records seem to be the same ones. This phenomenon raises questions about the cultural value of physical media, whether vinyl, cassettes or CDs. Further questions relate to the environmental impact of the dissemination of...

A mosaic of sounds recorded in the French Pyrenees, focusing on the species that live in the beech forests, rivers and meadows of this beautiful landscape. Can you hear the sounds of environmental change? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Featuring the work of environmental sound artist Chris Sciacca, who has recently been exploring the issue of e-waste using some innovative listening approaches. These include listening to waste processing facilities using microphones made from scrap materials, which have provided new insights into how these processes are affecting ecosystems. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informa...

Around 1400 of the world's bird species are now threatened with extinction, mostly because of human activities. This show features a recording of a sound installation created in 2024, incorporating calls and songs of some of the world's threatened birds. The installation was designed such that the bird sounds were modulated by the presence of people, providing a metaphor for human impacts on the e...

A radio play, profiling the archive of previous works produced by Wimborne Community Theatre. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A mosaic of sounds recorded at Heal Somerset, which is a rewilding project in rural Somerset, UK. A former dairy farm is being rewilded by allowing vegetation to develop naturally. https://www.healsomerset.org.uk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A sound walk through the coastal environments near to the town of West Bay, Dorset. The walk follows the course of the River Brid, and features field recordings from both under the water surface and from the surrounding floodplain, which is partly a nature reserve. These recordings were made as part of the Ecosonica festival in June 2024. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information...

Songs and calls from threatened bird species from around the world, all of which are at risk of extinction. With acknowledgements to https://xeno-canto.org/, and its many contributors. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Songs and calls from threatened bird species from around the world, all of which are at risk of extinction. With acknowledgements to https://xeno-canto.org/, and its many contributors. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hydrophone recordings made on the rivers Nadder and Avon, near Salisbury, UK, in April 2024. This was a contribution to the Salisbury River Park Project, which is aiming to develop a network of public greenspace along the rivers and throughout the town. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A sound mosaic exploring the ecological restoration of forests throughout the world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A sound mosaic celebrating the work of the Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña. Her works have included painting, sculpture, poetry, performance art and creation of multi-media installations, often with an environmental focus. An example of the latter is 'Brain Forest Quipu', which was exhibited in the Tate Modern, London, in 2022. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A musical elegy to the snowscapes that are disappearing owing to global heating. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Further explorations of walking as an artistic practice, by performing a variety of different walking scores. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Can walking be considered as an artform? Yes! There is a growing international community of artists for whom walking is central to their artistic practice. This offers a very different, even subversive, perspective on what art might be. But how can walking be turned into art? Here we explore this question by attempting to perform walking scores and proposals produced by different walking artists,...

An interview with the artist, musician, author and environmental activist Matthew Shaw, exploring the different creative pathways he has followed. For more information about Matthew's work, check out the following links: https://www.matthewshaw.org/ , and https://texlahoma.bandcamp.com/album/the-still-silence-at-the-centre . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.