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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 16, 2019

Henry Williamson on Curlews: From “Tarka the Otter”

From Tarka the Otter Within the moor is the Forest, a region high and treeless, where sedge grasses grow on the slopes to the sky. In early summer the wild…

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Posted on April 19, 2019April 15, 2019

“Curlew Call”, Peter Bagshaw

The call of the curlew is its best known feature – indeed, the potential disappearance of this sound from the soundscape of the countryside is one of the most potent…

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Posted on February 6, 2018

Snipe and Woodcock at 33⅓ RPM: Listen The Birds 8 / Hoor De Vogels 8 

I came across this birdsong album in my family home lately. As will become clear, I can’t find out much about it online, but I felt that the aesthetic of…

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Posted on July 18, 2017

Happy World Listening Day!

It is World Listening Day. I am a bit leery of too many confected “Days” However, anything that encourages listening is itself to be encouraged. From the World Listening Project…

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Posted on March 28, 2017March 29, 2017

“sound as a way of sense-making”

Sound Artist Lawrence English on the Power of Radical Listening From Observer.com Interview here   How did you become interested in working with sound as a creative medium? When I…

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Posted on August 11, 2016

Bird feeding notes, mid August

In recent days, bird feeding has picked up again after a lull of some weeks – I noted this before but the pace has picked up . I unsure whether this…

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Posted on June 12, 2016June 12, 2016

An eerie silence in the garden.

Early today I saw a rustle in the patch of grass in the middle of the garden, and a cat emerged, lethargically fleeing. Probably not coincidentally, there were far fewer…

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