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Posted on May 15, 2019May 15, 2019

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…

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Posted on May 6, 2019May 6, 2019

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…

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Posted on April 21, 2019April 17, 2019

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…

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Posted on April 15, 2019

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…

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Posted on December 6, 2018December 7, 2018

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…

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Posted on October 23, 2018

Bass Clarinet and Percussion (extract) – composer Morton Feldman, performed by CrossingLines ensemble

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Posted on October 9, 2018

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:  

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Posted on September 4, 2018September 3, 2018

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…

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