A fresh Cornish spring day last week, along the West Looe River valley. Hear an area of ancient woodland. Described as the lungs of Looe. It's Cornish rainforest. Trees, that go back in time, farther than we can imagine. Walk inland, with the river to your right. Soon it'll be endless oaks, trunks covered with moss, all around you. As far as the eye can see. Ahead, where the muddy footpath goes. And behind, from where you've come. From left high up the steep sided valley. All the way down to touch the clean span of tidal water, that glints peacefully between the line of smaller trees.
From high in the treetops above your head, the calls of rooks echo for half a mile or more. Birds sing crisp, and less harshly in these parts. They have no human noise to compete with. You can hear woodland birds, estuary birds, and sea birds all together here. Against a backdrop of beautiful, deep brown, undulating noise. Oak forest noise.
The subtle harmonious sound that steady sea air makes when it moves over oak does seem to us to have a deep and richly brown sound-feel. It's a sound that's so spatial. So invigorating to the senses. We believe it is one of the most valuable and important sensory ingredients, of what some call a forest bathing experience. We loved every moment of it, and of being within the true precious quiet of Kilminorth Woods.
August breezes through an ancient Oak
Cooling off beside sifting waves at Felixstowe Ferry
Peace beside the tidal Thames near Stanford-le-Hope in the county of Essex
Brutalism and crickets of the A10 flyover
Summer sunrise over a lake in the Lee Valley - raucous birds start the day
Murmurs of the Kerry Ridgeway (part 2) - what rush hour sounds like in the hills of mid-Wales
Arable farmland in the Essex countryside
Suffolk Wood (part 4) - 11pm
A summer walk in rural Hertfordshire - sunshine and showers
Cathedral of trees - the Forest of Dean (part 1)
Early summer breezes
Sound-scenes of ocean waves
Suffolk Wood (part 3) - 10pm
Murmurs of the Kerry Ridgeway
Murmurs of the Kerry Ridgeway
Sleeper train from Paris Austerlitz to Port Bou
Under a large umbrella (rain and thunder)
Suffolk Wood (part 2) - 9pm
Dawn on a Peak District moorside
Sheltering in the back garden (from a storm)
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