A Soundwalk (3min version)
Created for Norfolk Open Studios Online 2020.
Recording sounds on a Lincolnshire beach, and walking with microphones by reedbeds behind the sand dune seawall.
Ponds & Creeks What Lies Beneath?Soundscape by Sophie Marritt with Listening Device by Jane Scobie, at Gibraltar Point, Skegness.
In the freshwater and brackish ponds, hornwort in sunlight bubbles oxygen to the rhythms of photosynthesis. Stridulations of Lesser Diving beetles join the beat. A whole other world of communications - crackling, snapping of shrimp, rasping rapping from crabs, and a low pitch thudding from fish.
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PondScape
Sound installation at the pond for Raveningham Sculpture Trail. Sounds recorded by Raveningham pond, my own garden and at Cley Marshes. Includes an audio recording of frogs and toads by David M at radio aporee, aporee.org.
Batwalk
Sound recorded on an evening walk to a meadow down by the River Yare. It is mid May 2020, dusk with a pink sunset over the Old Railway Yard and the 'full flower' supermoon is about to rise. A barn owl flies up river, a heron 'barks', and there are so many bats.
The bat echolocations register at around 55kHz on the bat detector, probably soprano pipistrelles - at the detection limit on my microphones and way beyond the range of human hearing. To hear in the range of the bat I lower the pitch or slow the recording right down. Now the birdsong drops to lower tones and traffic noise descends to the subaural. I overlay the sounds of the bats and add a little reverb and flange effect...
Batwalk: duration 13 minutes, remixed field recording using a Sound Devices MixPre6, stereo Primo EM172 microphones and a heterodyne bat detector. Recorded May 2020 for a live stream on Mixlr.
Version with narration on Soundcloud here
Submarine
Sound installation - below deck on the Lydia Eva steam drifter, moored at South Quay, Great Yarmouth. Created for Yarmonics 2019, supported by NNSAC (now Eastern Ear) and Original Projects. Full length version at the Yarmonics soundcloud
Short version of Submarine - sounds of the harbour at Gorleston were recorded and remixed. Includes the sound of a heartbeat ('Heart Beat' by Zarabadeu on soundbible.com, Attribution 3.0). Use headphones or speakers to hear the low pitch frequencies.
Setting up the the sound installation on the Lydia Eva steam drifter.
