Our first really clear sound-view of the landscape came along a footpath a mile or so from Winchelsea station, with the A259 behind us and, according to the map at least, the open sea ahead. It was in all its peaceful wideness, its pastoral mildness, there to be heard, from inside a little outcrop of blackthorn trees. Every branch covered in the healthiest grey lichen we'd ever seen. Blossom just starting to appear. We named it lichen thicket.
The land from Winchelsea to Rye is not only pleasantly low lying and bucolic, but the last before the shingle. We walked it before the summer came through all the new bright green, under a changeable April sky, under the thin calls of distant seagulls and passing geese. Hot sun shone between banks of fast moving cloud. Fresh breezes blew, they smelled at first of luscious hedgerows, then as we got closer, of the salty tidal zone.
A see-sawing great tit watched as we set up the microphones. Then as we scuffed away down the stony path, we heard the tumbling song of a chaffinch. Time begins to pass, pushed along by a gentle wind. Some falling drops of honey: a willow warbler. Distant activity on a farm. Yard dogs barking, rooks surveying the ground. Amidst the long quiet, two propeller planes pass, one behind the other.
202 Upland woods in winter gales (breathe easy and *sleep safe*)
201 Out on Cooden Beach at night (part 2 - night breakers on shingle) *sleep safe*
200 Windswept night in the belfry of Rye Church
199 Moorland forest mid winter gales
198 Fishing village harbour at night (part 3 - wide open peacefulness)
197 December rain light to moderate (sleep safe)
196 Estuary bleak passing ship
195 Tranquility found on England’s highest railway station
194 Inside a bird hide
193 Slow waves in the night quiet (sleep safe)
192 Remembering summer on the Hoo Peninsula
191 Moorland waterfall (sleep safe natural white noise)
190 St Mary’s Church in Rye
189 Night rain falls on a drystone wall (quiet and sleep safe)
188 Rock seat on Rye Harbour beach
187 Steam train stops at country station
186 Slow forest Wyre valley
185 Onshore breeze on Chesil beach (sleep safe and in hi-def sound)
184 River rilling through Miller’s Dale (sleep safe, hour-long)
183 Upland fir forest (sleep safe and ideal for headphones)
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