Link for the pictures should be here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/photos/share/CmhbgkSTChuDFYZXOvW4cLknM0CaVYc1t82jkA1CYjA

This is the sound poem for No Birds Land, an art and sound installation in the Trinity Tunnel on the Edinburgh cycle path network where it goes under East Trinity Road    ///large.risen.cities  55.976045, -3.203276  by Tamsin Grainger.

Additional information here www.tamsingrainger.com/blog-all-posts/no-birds-land-1

Acknowledging support from the RSPB, Sustrans, the Scottish Green Party, and the City of Edinburgh Council.

No Birds Land Sound Poem

The king of the faeries - Matthew on the tin whistle.m4a

A sound walk along the wall on top of the Western Breakwater at Granton Harbour in Edinburgh, Scotland
There is also an installation you can see to get the whole experience in person.
Shortlisted for a Sound Walk September Award 2022 by walklistencreate.com
Please note that there are ambient sounds of walking and of the area before the spoken part begins.
Audio recorded in situ and mixed by the author.

The Wall

During a 3-day residency in Wingham for the NSW Regional Futures project, I spent time exploring Wingham Brush Nature Reserve. Early one morning over the October long weekend (3 Oct '22), I recorded a walk on the boardwalk. Hear about the giant fig trees, listen to the birds and grey-headed flying foxes, my descriptions of the recent flood damage on the Manning River, and my thoughts about exploring regional futures as an artist. Recorded on a mobile phone. More information about Regional Futures and my Vaticinor project - https://kvgoldsmithart.com/current-work/vaticinor/

Sonic Byte - Wingham Brush Boardwalk

"If you can't find a photograph within ten yards of where you are, you're not looking hard enough". Paul Haley has been a professional photographer all his working life. As the youngest ever Senior Photographer at Soldier magazine he was posted to the South Atlantic to document the Falklands War of 1982. He recorded more than 2000 images, now conserved in the collection of the Imperial War Museum, London. The museum's Head of Photographs, Helen Mavin, included some of Paul's photographs in the recently published book War Photographers (ISBN 978-1-912423-66-8).
In this Radio Walk, Paul Haley guided Jonathan Kempster around his windswept and rainy hometown of Morley, Leeds, demonstrating that there is an inspiring image to be found around every corner. 

(A stereo recording - listen on headphones if you can.)

Paul's life story was recorded by the IWM's oral history unit and is conserved in the museum's sound collection under catalogue number 37195.

Title image © The Trustees of the Imperial War Museum, 2023

https://shop.iwm.org.uk/p/29017/War-Photographers---IWM-Photo-Collection
https://www.iwm.org.uk/events/blavatnik-art-film-and-photography-galleries

Radio Walks Podcast - Interview with Paul Haley

"Cracked open with a crowbar, soil runs like silk through fingers — from rose pinks and greys to darker clumps of clay. Warm, acid, floury—tenuous and rudimentary soils devoid of visible life. Silence holds the space of expectation. Pink galahs shriek from cypress pines at the thought this dirt holds anything of worth." - excerpt from 'Good-for-nothing dirt', 2024

This is the story of soils in an area west of Dubbo on Wiradyuri Country in the Central West of the state of New South Wales, Australia, revealed over two months of reading, observations and recordings in the summer of 2023/24. More information can be found here - https://eco-pulse.art/projects/the-dirt-on-sos/

Subterranean serenade

Recorded on 1 April 2024 with an Aquarian H2a hydrophone (9m cable) and Zoom F3 from a pedestrian bridge over the Wambuul Macquarie River at Shibble Bridge near Dubbo. This is a regulated inland river. Water flow is controlled by an upstream dam and downstream weirs. On this day, the river was very low, with the water level about 7 metres below the bridge. There's some underwater activity evident, probably fish—most likely invasive European carp, but the dominant sound is the whine of a pump running about 600+ metres downstream. Hundreds of these licensed pumps can be heard on this river, pumping water for stock and domestic purposes and irrigation of crops.

Whining river - Wambuul Macquarie

Simple sound prompts for a creative walk 

Walking the Land is an Artist Collective and we hold walks in person and remotely on the first Friday of the month.
This is the June 2024 walking prompt.

Can be used in a rural or urban setting, on your own, with someone else or in a group.

https://walkingtheland.org.uk/
Tamsin Grainger blog: https://walkingwithoutadonkey.com/

June 7 First Friday Walk Tamsin Grainger

Audio recorded and produced by Laura Khan Mitchison
Co-production and sound design by Steve Urquhart
Photo credit: © Tim Green a.k.a Flamenco Sun
Music: Revbejelde & Howlround

Brompton Cemetery Sound and Stories

Wind In The Trees

Hayley and Ryan chat about a recent sound walk around Ryebank Fields in Chorlton/Old Trafford as well as our changing soundscape during lockdown.

Warm wintery wishes to you all. Watch this space for our relaunch in the new year!

If you’re interested in the campaign to save Ryebank Fields, visit www.saveryebankfields.org

Introducing, The Manchester Ear Podcast | Ryebank Fields, Chorlton | 7.12.20

Oral Historian and Audio Journalist, Imperial War Museum Sound Archive, BBC Radio, Freelance. 
Visiting Oral Historian at Chiltern Open Air Museum (COAM).
Member of Institute of Professional Sound, National Union of Journalists, Oral History Society, Subject Specialist Network (War & Conflict), International Association of Sound Archives.

Radio Walks Podcast - Interview with Paul Haley

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