We captured this passage of time on a visit to some friends in Exeter last year in April during a spell of fine weather. It turned out to be a silky soft recording of a spring garden at dawn.
It's about 5am and the garden birds are just starting to sing against a backdrop of high circling seagulls. From here, the still sleeping city of Exeter exudes a panoramic aural presence. A wide, steadily murmurating vail of grey brown noise, that's reflecting, and reflecting again off the many parapet walls of the neighbourhood's buildings.
We left the mics, as usual, to record alone overnight. Positioned on grass, a few metres from a wooden slatted fence and a pink cherry blossom, they witness the comings and goings of the resident birds. Tuneful robins, who by chance perch on the edges of their territories and sing at each other, like operatic performers, to the left and the right of scene.
How charmingly familiar is their song. How liquid. Often shimmery, like sunlight tilted through sliding raindrops.
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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