Sound recordings selected for Shakespeare Off the Map 2016, a UK higher education videogame competition organised by the British Library and GameCity.

The winning entry for Shakespeare Off the Map 2016 was The Tempest by Team Quattro (De Montfort University): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lzpEFgpk3Y

Off The Map challenges budding designers to use collections from the British Library as inspiration to create exciting interactive digital media.

Shakespeare Off the Map

A group of five Carrion Crows in the trees, before roosting, during a blustery force 6 wind. Recorded in winter at Woodchester Park, Gloucestershire by Richard Margoschis.

British Library reference: 1CD0091587 D2 BD9

Image Reference: https://pixabay.com/en/forest-sky-winter-landscape-r%C3%BCgen-584354/

Woodland In Winter

Scottish woodland at dawn recorded by Richard Margoschis. A chorus of several Chaffinches and Wrens singing, a Blackbird and Rooks, Woodpigeons singing, loud Crows and wing whirring from a Pheasant, a distant cockerel and Jackdaws.

British Library reference: 1CD0091587 D1 BD8

Image Reference: https://pixabay.com/en/bluebell-wood-flowers-springtime-905626/

Woodland In Late Spring

Babbling brook recorded in Kynance Cove, Cornwall on 1st March 1996 by Paul Duck.

British Library reference: W1CDR0000199 BD11

Image Reference: https://pixabay.com/en/water-drop-rain-falling-pouring-275938/

Babbling Brook, Cornwall, England, March 1996

Light rainfall recorded in Amacayacu National Park, Colombia on 1st September 1988 by Richard Ranft.

British Library reference: W1CDR0000524 BD5

Image Reference: https://pixabay.com/en/water-priroda-drops-rain-815271/


Light Rainfall, Colombia, September 1988

Morning in an old forest in Gloucestershire at springtime recorded by Richard Margoschis. The shrill notes of a Wren and nasal calls of a Nuthatch, gentle cooings of Woodpigeons, Robin song, a Pheasant crowing and bees humming. Rooks cawing, scolding notes of a Jay, a Blue Tit calling and singing, drumming from a Great Spotted Woodpecker. Also the songs and calls of a Blackbird, Cuckoo, Willow Warbler and Coal Tit.

British Library Reference: 1CD0091587 D1 BD3

Image Reference: https://pixabay.com/en/tree-support-tree-moss-forest-log-505041/

Old Forest In Spring

Wind in rigging recorded in Norfolk on 3rd September 1974 by William Pedley.

British Library reference: W1CDR0001660 BD17

Image Reference: https://pixabay.com/en/sail-rigging-mast-boat-blue-sky-402138/

Wind In Rigging, Norfolk, 1974

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