David Owen in the New Yorker on Noise Pollution
There’s an interesting and somewhat maddening story by David Owen in the current New Yorker on noise and health (both human and animal). Interesting because, well this is something I…
Category: sound
David Monacchi: “Fragments of Extinction”, the sounds of vanishing nature
With the prospect of mass extinction in the news, it seems a good time to reflect on the loss of soundscapes. In Ireland, the corncrake and the curlew were once…
Curlews in The Thirty-Nine Steps
John Buchan’s thrillers are not exactly politically correct by today’s standards, but contain many gems of prose – especially on the natural world and on the cares of power. There is…
Sacred Music from Notre Dame Cathedral, Tonus Peregrinus
A few weeks ago I posted tracks from this album as part of the ChoralMarch blog series. It is hard to believe the cover of this album – with Notre…
Reflections on my top Spotify plays of 2018
It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for! I wonder why Spotify do this with over three weeks of the year still to go? Perhaps it is so that is…
Górecki / Symphony No. 2 “Copernican”, Final section
Górecki is of course most famous for his third symphony of “Sorrowful Songs”, I recently discovered this which is just as powerful:
Happy St Cuthbert’s Day with Chris Watson
Today is St Cuthbert’s Day. I must admit he wasn’t a saint I’d heard of before coming across Chris Watson’s work. Watson has had an interesting and highly varied career. Formerly…
Séamus Sweeney 