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Lavenham Library, Church Street, Lavenham, Sudbury

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Lavenham to Hadleigh - 15720s, by Seconds.Of.Sound

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Hadleigh Library, High Street, Hadleigh, Ipswich

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Hadleigh to Capel to Chantry - 17520s, by Seconds.Of.Sound

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Chantry Library, Hawthorn Drive, Ipswich

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Chantry to Broomhill to Ipswich to Stoke to Gainsborough to Rosehill

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Chantry to Broomhill to Ipswich to Stoke to Gainsborough to Rosehill

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Seconds.Of.Sound England, UK

Seconds.Of.Sound (S.O.S) urges you to dedicate moments to listening. series of walks between every library in Suffolk, the recordings here are moments from these places.

Accompanying a

To see route maps for each walk click the link below.

S.O.S was created by Martin Scaiff as Environmentalist in Residence for Suffolk Libraries. The residency is generously supported by Arts Council England.

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Chantry to Broomhill to Ipswich to Stoke to Gainsborough to Rosehill - 15720s, by Seconds.Of.Sound

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Chantry to Broomhill to Ipswich to Stoke to Gainsborough to Rosehill - 15720s by Seconds.Of.Sound, released 14 May 2024 1. 56s 2. 93s 3. 96s 4. 140s 5. 1277s Route map for this walk - https://explore.osmaps.com/route/21243468/chantry-to-broomhill-to-ipswich-to-stoke-to-gainsborough-to-rosehill?lat=52.050023&lon=1.130076&zoom=12.8616&style=Leisure&type=2d

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Seconds.Of.Sound England, UK

Seconds.Of.Sound (S.O.S) urges you to dedicate moments to listening. series of walks between every library in Suffolk, the recordings here are moments from these places.

Accompanying a

To see route maps for each walk click the link below.

S.O.S was created by Martin Scaiff as Environmentalist in Residence for Suffolk Libraries. The residency is generously supported by Arts Council England.

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Rosehill to Felixstowe - 20220s, by Seconds.Of.Sound

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Rosehill to Felixstowe - 20220s by Seconds.Of.Sound, released 14 May 2024 1. 122s 2. 131s 3. 151s 4. 169s 5. 323s Route map for this walk - https://explore.osmaps.com/route/21243508/rosehill-to-felixstowe?lat=52.004198&lon=1.218340&zoom=11.6156&style=Leisure&type=2d

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Felixstowe Library, Crescent Road, Felixstowe

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"From April to October 2024 I will be walking between every Suffolk Library.  On this walk I will be recording and live-streaming the acoustic habitats I travel through, inviting others to walk with me (either in person or remotely through livestreamed sound), and delivering active environmental listening activities however, whenever, and wherever, I can."

Martin Scaiff - HomeSounds Director

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Seconds.Of.Sound England, UK

Seconds.Of.Sound (S.O.S) urges you to dedicate moments to listening. series of walks between every library in Suffolk, the recordings here are moments from these places.

Accompanying a

To see route maps for each walk click the link below.

S.O.S was created by Martin Scaiff as Environmentalist in Residence for Suffolk Libraries. The residency is generously supported by Arts Council England.

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Felixstowe to Hollesly - 14760s, by Seconds.Of.Sound

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Felixstowe to Hollesly - 14760s by Seconds.Of.Sound, released 16 May 2024 1. 900s 2. 115s 3. 98s 4. 305s 5. 265s Route map for this walk - https://explore.osmaps.com/route/21250299/felixstowe-to-hollesly-bay?lat=52.008705&lon=1.361759&zoom=11.8637&style=Leisure&type=2d

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Seconds.Of.Sound England, UK

Seconds.Of.Sound (S.O.S) urges you to dedicate moments to listening. series of walks between every library in Suffolk, the recordings here are moments from these places.

Accompanying a

To see route maps for each walk click the link below.

S.O.S was created by Martin Scaiff as Environmentalist in Residence for Suffolk Libraries. The residency is generously supported by Arts Council England.

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Hollesly to Warren Hill to Woodbridge - 16260s, by Seconds.Of.Sound

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Hollesly to Warren Hill to Woodbridge - 16260s by Seconds.Of.Sound, released 21 May 2024 1. 106s 2. 72s 3. 582s 4. 114s 5. 139s Route map for this walk - https://explore.osmaps.com/route/21250324/hollesly-to-warren-hill-to-woodbridge?lat=52.077869&lon=1.351424&zoom=12.4697&style=Leisure&type=2d

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Woodbridge Library, New Street, Woodbridge

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Seconds.Of.Sound England, UK

Seconds.Of.Sound (S.O.S) urges you to dedicate moments to listening. series of walks between every library in Suffolk, the recordings here are moments from these places.

Accompanying a

S.O.S was created by Martin Scaiff as Environmentalist in Residence for Suffolk Libraries. The residency is generously supported by Arts Council England.

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Woodbridge to Wickham Market - 15060s, by Seconds.Of.Sound

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Woodbridge to Wickham Market - 15060s by Seconds.Of.Sound, released 30 May 2024 1. 107s 2. 72s 3. 138s 4. 223s 5. 644s Route Map: https://explore.osmaps.com/route/21250382/wickham-market-to-aldeburgh?lat=52.160335&lon=1.436988&zoom=11.7364&style=Leisure&type=2d

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Wickham Market Library, Resource Centre, Chapel Lane, Wickham Market, Woodbridge

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Wickham Market to Aldeburgh - 20760s, by Seconds.Of.Sound

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Aldeburgh Library, Victoria Road, Aldeburgh

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Seconds.Of.Sound England, UK

Seconds.Of.Sound (S.O.S) urges you to dedicate moments to listening. series of walks between every library in Suffolk, the recordings here are moments from these places.

Accompanying a

S.O.S was created by Martin Scaiff as Environmentalist in Residence for Suffolk Libraries. The residency is generously supported by Arts Council England.

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Aldeburgh to Leiston to Saxmundham - 19500s, by Seconds.Of.Sound

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Aldeburgh to Leiston to Saxmundham - 19500s by Seconds.Of.Sound, released 12 June 2024 1. 66s 2. 819s 3. 96s 4. 79s 5. 179s Route Map - https://explore.osmaps.com/route/21250414/aldeburgh-to-leiston-to-saxmundham?lat=52.188714&lon=1.527493&zoom=12.4025&style=Standard&type=2d

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Saxmundham Library, Street Farm Road, Saxmundham

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Seconds.Of.Sound England, UK

Seconds.Of.Sound (S.O.S) urges you to dedicate moments to listening. series of walks between every library in Suffolk, the recordings here are moments from these places.

Accompanying a

S.O.S was created by Martin Scaiff as Environmentalist in Residence for Suffolk Libraries. The residency is generously supported by Arts Council England.

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Saxmundham to Southwold - 20640s, by Seconds.Of.Sound

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Saxmundham to Southwold - 20640s by Seconds.Of.Sound, released 20 June 2024 1. 419s 2. 118s 3. 651s 4. 334s 5. 307s Route Map - https://explore.osmaps.com/route/21250425/saxmundham-to-southwold?lat=52.277185&lon=1.534779&zoom=11.5105&style=Leisure&type=2d

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Southwold Library, Field Stile Road, Southwold

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Southwold to Kessingland - 13980s, by Seconds.Of.Sound

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Kessingland Library, Marram Green, Hall Road, Kessingland, Lowestoft

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Kessingland to Lowestoft to Oulton Broad

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Kessingland to Lowestoft to Oulton Broad

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Seconds.Of.Sound England, UK

Seconds.Of.Sound (S.O.S) urges you to dedicate moments to listening. series of walks between every library in Suffolk, the recordings here are moments from these places.

Accompanying a

S.O.S was created by Martin Scaiff as Environmentalist in Residence for Suffolk Libraries. The residency is generously supported by Arts Council England.

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Kessingland to Lowestoft to Oulton Broad - 13860s, by Seconds.Of.Sound

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Kessingland to Lowestoft to Oulton Broad - 13860s by Seconds.Of.Sound, released 04 July 2024 1. 121s 2. 109s 3. 290s 4. 362s 5. 96s Route Map - https://explore.osmaps.com/route/22208618/kessingland-to-lowestoft-to-oulton-broad?lat=52.451143&lon=1.708018&zoom=12.2962&style=Leisure&type=2d

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Oulton Broad Library, Bridge Road, Oulton Broad, Lowestoft

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Seconds.Of.Sound England, UK

Seconds.Of.Sound (S.O.S) urges you to dedicate moments to listening. series of walks between every library in Suffolk, the recordings here are moments from these places.

Accompanying a

S.O.S was created by Martin Scaiff as Environmentalist in Residence for Suffolk Libraries. The residency is generously supported by Arts Council England.

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Oulton Broad to Beccles to Bungay - 24180s, by Seconds.Of.Sound

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Oulton Broad to Beccles to Bungay - 24180s by Seconds.Of.Sound, released 09 July 2024 1. 180s 2. 298s 3. 117s 4. 83s 5. 80s Route Map - https://explore.osmaps.com/route/21339035/oulton-broad-to-beccles-to-bungay?lat=52.465842&lon=1.524954&zoom=11.4962&style=Leisure&type=2d

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Bungay Community Library, Wharton Street, Bungay

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Seconds.Of.Sound England, UK

Seconds.Of.Sound (S.O.S) urges you to dedicate moments to listening. series of walks between every library in Suffolk, the recordings here are moments from these places.

Accompanying a

S.O.S was created by Martin Scaiff as Environmentalist in Residence for Suffolk Libraries. The residency is generously supported by Arts Council England.

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Bungay to Halesworth - 14640s, by Seconds.Of.Sound

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Halesworth Library, Bridge Street, Halesworth

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Seconds.Of.Sound England, UK

Seconds.Of.Sound (S.O.S) urges you to dedicate moments to listening. series of walks between every library in Suffolk, the recordings here are moments from these places.

Accompanying a

S.O.S was created by Martin Scaiff as Environmentalist in Residence for Suffolk Libraries. The residency is generously supported by Arts Council England.

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Halesworth to Framlingham - 24360s, by Seconds.Of.Sound

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Halesworth to Framlingham - 24360s by Seconds.Of.Sound, released 09 August 2024 1. 192s 2. 693s 3. 20s 4. 605s 5. 98s Route Map: https://explore.osmaps.com/route/21339205/halesworth-to-framlingham?lat=52.288285&lon=1.368617&zoom=11.4442&style=Standard&type=2d

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A compilation of extracts from a discussion between composer, radio artist, teacher and sound ecologist, Hildegard Westerkamp, and Director of Recast Music Education, Martin Scaiff, held in February 2020.

The intention of the discussion, from the HomeSounds point of view, was to draw on the exceptional experience, knowledge and creativity of one of the world's leading figures in the art of listening. It is also intended to be shared with anyone interested in understanding how listening can benefit human creativity, education, health and well-being.

The 'Lessons From Listening' series aims to provide context, connections, and inspiration to, and from, the HomeSounds project as it evolves.

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A compilation of extracts from a discussion between composer, radio artist, teacher and sound ecologist, Hildegard Westerkamp, and Director of Recast Music Education, Martin Scaiff, held in February 2020.

The intention of the discussion, from the HomeSounds point of view, was to draw on the exceptional experience, knowledge and creativity of one of the world's leading figures in the art of listening. It is also intended to be shared with anyone interested in understanding how listening can benefit human creativity, education, health and well-being.

The 'Lessons From Listening' series aims to provide context, connections, and inspiration to, and from, the HomeSounds project as it evolves.

All proceeds go towards the continuation of the HomeSounds project.

released October 15, 2020

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Lessons From Listening - Hildegard Westerkamp, by HomeSounds

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Lessons From Listening - Hildegard Westerkamp by HomeSounds, released 15 October 2020 1. Introductions/Working With Young People. 2. How Do You Create That Atmosphere Of Quiet? 3. How Do You Encourage People To Listen? 4. Leaders Of Sound-Walks Must Remain In A Safe Sound Space. 5. Creating Atmospheres Of Trust/How To Leave A Sound-Walk.

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In this Soundwalk, artists Alice Angus and Melanie Mascharenhas led an online sound-drawing/walking workshop drawing on the acoustic habitat of Wheatfen shared by the live-streaming microphone installed by HomeSounds.

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Live-Stream Soundwalk - Drawing Deep Waters - Wheatfen Nature Reserve

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Martin Scaiff is joined by Will Fitch, warden of Wheatfen Nature Reserve in the heart of the Norfolk Broads. The HomeSounds project installed a live-streaming microphone at the reserve which broadcast its acoustic habitat to the world for free 24 hours a day, 7 days a week through the fabulous Locus Sonus Soundmap.

Together Martin and Will explore the sounds of this unique and vital area of wetland on a warm, fresh, early spring day. They discover an already pretty frantic dawn chorus, have some close encounters of the swan kind, discuss the busy and rich life of Wheatfen, and learn about the ‘Penguin’, a Norfolk wherry (sailing barge) the remains of which rests amongst the fen following an unfortunate encounter with a stray Luftwaffe bomb.

Welcome home everybody.

Google Map this sound-walk: www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1mD8SRnrLvnlblsjUH85dFjJhkzgSkDgI&usp=sharing

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Martin Scaiff is joined by Will Fitch, warden of Wheatfen Nature Reserve in the heart of the Norfolk Broads. The HomeSounds project installed a live-streaming microphone at the reserve which broadcast its acoustic habitat to the world for free 24 hours a day, 7 days a week through the fabulous Locus Sonus Soundmap.

Together Martin and Will explore the sounds of this unique and vital area of wetland on a warm, fresh, early spring day. They discover an already pretty frantic dawn chorus, have some close encounters of the swan kind, discuss the busy and rich life of Wheatfen, and learn about the 'Penguin', a Norfolk wherry (sailing barge) the remains of which rests amongst the fen following an unfortunate encounter with a stray Luftwaffe bomb.

Welcome home everybody.

LINKS
Google Map this sound-walk: www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1mD8SRnrLvnlblsjUH85dFjJhkzgSkDgI&usp=sharing

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Wheatfen - 22nd February, 2021, by HomeSounds

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Wheatfen - 22nd February, 2021 by HomeSounds, released 20 July 2022

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Grime's Graves - Prehistoric Flint Mine, Lynford, Thetford

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Through it's partnership with Norwich Science Festival and English Heritage, HomeSounds delivered a series of online live-stream soundwalks.

This early morning soundwalk drew on the sounds of a live-stream microphone installed at the historic Grimes Graves Flint Mine in Norfolk as part of the collaboration, and focused on the dawn chorus.

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Live Stream Sound Walk (Dawn Chorus ) - Grimes Graves - 2020

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(NO LONGER LIVE)

This live-streaming microphone is located in an area of ‘carr’ woodland fringing the lake at Felbrigg. Carr (derived from the Old Norse kjarr, meaning swamp) is a rare habitat of waterlogged woodland, dominated by tree species such as alder and willow which thrive in wet conditions.  The carr has developed around Felbrigg pond, which was formed when Scarrow Beck, a small tributary of the Bure was dammed by William Windham III in 18th century as part of his development of the surrounding Park.

The lake and surrounding woodland are home to a range of wildlife; dragonflies and damselflies are abundant over the water in the summer, the reedbeds support nesting birds such as reed bunting and sedge warbler, and otters are frequently seen.  In summer evenings the area provides an important feeding ground for bats including the water loving daubenton’s bat and the rare barbastelle.  In autumn and winter the open water attracts wildfowl and cormorants roost in the lakeside trees.

National Trust has worked to return the beck drains into the pond to a more natural form, creating wet grassland which can provide breeding habitat for declining wading birds such as lapwing and snipe. These habitat improvements have also had the effect of lowering the amount of nutrients that enter the lake from the surrounding catchment, improving water quality which had declined significantly during the latter part of the last century.

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Pigneys Wood - Live-Stream Soundwalk Playlist

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Pigneys Wood - Live-Stream Soundwalk Playlist

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Through it's partnership with Norwich Science Festival and Norfolk Wildlife Trust, HomeSounds delivered a series of online live-stream soundwalks, particularly focusing on the Dawn Chorus and Bats.

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Welcome Home Everybody!

This video is all about listening.

Listening anytime, anywhere and anyhow.

The HomeSounds project encourages everyone, particularly young people, to become active environmental listeners for the benefit of their creativity, education, health and well-being.

In this video we explore the sounds of Wheatfen Nature Reserve, its acoustic habitat. On the way we learn about why listening is so important, draw soundmaps in the earth, tune into live environmental sounds from around the world, and watch how visual artists can create art using sound as inspiration.

Rustling reedbeds, crackling brash, snapping twigs, squelching mud, hammering woodpeckers, mysterious underwater pops, and a blissful, vibrant dawn chorus will fill your ears on this unique sound-walk.

Listening with headphones is recommended. Listening without them is just as good.

This video was commissioned by Norfolk County Council as part of the Big Norfolk Holiday Fun program.

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Sheringham Park - Live-stream Soundwalks

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Sheringham Park - Live-stream Soundwalks

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A playlist of live-stream soundwalks drawing on the acoustic habitat shared by the live-streaming microphone installed by HomeSounds.

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HomeSounds creator Martin Scaiff and naturalist and outdoor educator Rob Coleman go in search of the Nightjar at Weybourne Heath in North Norfolk.

The mysterious bat-like appearance of this crepuscular visitor to the UK, partnered with its surely circular-breathed churring call, makes for an enchanting encounter with commentary from one in-experienced bird-watcher and one well-seasoned in the practice.

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HomeSounds creator Martin Scaiff and naturalist and outdoor educator Rob Coleman go in search of the Nightjar at Weybourne Heath in North Norfolk.

The mysterious bat-like appearance of this crepuscular visitor to the UK, partnered with its surely circular-breathed churring call, makes for an enchanting encounter with commentary from one in-experienced bird-watcher and one well-seasoned in the practice.

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Weybourne Heath - 13th July, 2020, by HomeSounds

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Weybourne Heath - 13th July, 2020 by HomeSounds, released 20 July 2022

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Titchwell Marsh - Live-stream Soundwalk Playlist

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Titchwell Marsh - Live-stream Soundwalk Playlist

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A playlist of live-stream soundwalks from RSPB Titchwell Marsh.

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On the first sun-warmed day of spring, HomeSounds creator and naturalist and outdoor educator Rob Coleman visit Horsey on the east coast of Norfolk, UK. Through a cutting in high grassy dunes they discover a rich sandy beach playing host to a huge colony of grey seal pups.

Like sleeping bags stuffed with jelly, and only recently left to fend for themselves, the pups fill the shoreline as far as the eye can see, corralled into groups of 50 or so by defensive groynes stretching and sinking out into the North Sea.

Martin and Rob introduce you to the grey seal and discuss the development of the colony in this area. Long periods of ghostly, indeterminate calls filling a rushing sea-soundscape, and the crackling hum of industrial fenland, are accompanied by conversation about ignorance, boggy puddles, imagined nature, motorbikes and everyday wildlife.

Welcome home everybody.

LINKS

Sound-Walk Map - www.google.com/maps/d/edit?/mid=1bVXoPxiqmlFCvk4D9ADO-uGmWX60vtZb&usp=sharing

Friends of Horsey Seals - www.friendsofhorseyseals.co.uk

Horsey Windpump - www.national trust.org.uk/horsey-windpump

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On the first sun-warmed day of spring, HomeSounds creator and naturalist and outdoor educator Rob Coleman visit Horsey on the east coast of Norfolk, UK. Through a cutting in high grassy dunes they discover a rich sandy beach playing host to a huge colony of grey seal pups.

Like sleeping bags stuffed with jelly, and only recently left to fend for themselves, the pups fill the shoreline as far as the eye can see, corralled into groups of 50 or so by defensive groynes stretching and sinking out into the North Sea.

Martin and Rob introduce you to the grey seal and discuss the development of the colony in this area. Long periods of ghostly, indeterminate calls filling a rushing sea-soundscape, and the crackling hum of industrial fenland, are accompanied by conversation about ignorance, boggy puddles, imagined nature, motorbikes and everyday wildlife.

Welcome home everybody.

LINKS

Sound-Walk Map - www.google.com/maps/d/edit?/mid=1bVXoPxiqmlFCvk4D9ADO-uGmWX60vtZb&usp=sharing

Friends of Horsey Seals - htttps;//www.friendsofhorseyseals.co.uk

Horsey Windpump - www.national trust.org.uk/horsey-windpump

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Horsey - 26th February, 2021, by HomeSounds

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Horsey - 26th February, 2021 by HomeSounds, released 20 July 2022

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A collection of field-recording sketches captured at Summerhill School, a pioneering educational community founded by educationalist A.S.Neill and located in rural Suffolk, UK. Summerhill is founded on principles of children's rights, freedom not licence, play and self-government.

Recorded across October and November, 2015, these sketches have found quiet corners and acoustic habitats often obscured to the public by the loud, passionate debates that make up an integral part of the school's identity. These debates and conversations in themselves often offer little insight into the real experiences of individual members of the school community, both past and present. These recordings offer something of that insight, being recorded by one member of that community, although it was not consciously intended this way.

For more information on Summerhill visit - www.summerhillschool.co.uk

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A collection of field-recording sketches captured at Summerhill School, a pioneering educational community founded by educationalist A.S.Neill and located in rural Suffolk, UK. Summerhill is founded on principles of children's rights, freedom not licence, play and self-government.

Recorded across October and November, 2015, these sketches have found quiet corners and acoustic habitats often obscured to the public by the loud, passionate debates that make up an integral part of the school's identity. These debates and conversations in themselves often offer little insight into the real experiences of individual members of the school community, both past and present. These recordings offer something of that insight, being recorded by one member of that community, although it was not consciously intended this way.

For more information on Summerhill visit - www.summerhillschool.co.uk

released December 17, 2021

All audio recorded by Martin Scaiff
Cover photo by Owen Morgan

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Winterton-on-Sea - In Line With The Lighthouse

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Winterton-on-Sea - In Line With The Lighthouse

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In Line With The Lighthouse was a collection of live-streamed broadcasts of acoustic habitats found at Winterton-On-Sea, Norfolk, UK across the 9th and 10th of October, 2021.

The performance comprised two separate Live-Streams. The first, a 24hour fixed location broadcast from a selected spot on Winterton Dunes. The sound was captured by a DIY stereo location microphone rig developed as part of the HomeSounds project. The second, a roaming broadcast from a number of locations amongst the dunes that ran loosely in a line from Winterton Lighthouse to the sea. The two streams were broadcast through the LocusSonus Soundmap, a collection of live-streaming microphones from around the world.

In Line With The Lighthouse encouraged you to listen and wait; to foster what Miriam Rose Ungunmerr calls 'quiet, still, awareness'. It asked the audience to reflect on human responses to the transient nature of an eroding coastline, and through listening, balance these responses with those of the non-human natural world. That is not to belittle the human response but to try, by listening, to truly understand it, and from this point seek to appreciate how these responses shape our interactions with, and influence upon, the world around us.

The renowned composer and sound-ecologist Hildegard Westerkamp has described listening as a cycle; our consciousness forever travelling between the world outside and the world within. Sound influences Self influences Sound. In Line With The Lighthouse invited you to take this tidal journey, and consider what is eroded away, what landscape is changed, with each wave of sound.

The HomeSounds project encourages everyone, particularly young people, to become Active Environmental Listeners. Through this work we have found many people, of all ages, desperately seeking the experiences that often accompany purposeful listening. Solace, trust, inspiration, understanding, space, confidence, faith.

In Line With The Lighthouse has been commissioned as part of Moveable Estates, a 30-minute audio artwork, created by the spatial practitioners Cooking Sections, for an Arts Council funded project known collectively as ‘New Geographies’. Cooking Sections were commissioned to produce an artwork for the New Geographies project by East Gallery, Norwich University of the Arts, as one member of the group ECVAN (the East Contemporary Visual Arts Network) who created the project.

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In Line With The Lighthouse was a collection of live-streamed broadcasts of acoustic habitats found at Winterton-On-Sea, Norfolk, UK across the 9th and 10th of October, 2021.

The performance comprised two separate Live-Streams. The first, a 24hour fixed location broadcast from a selected spot on Winterton Dunes. The sound was captured by a DIY stereo location microphone rig developed as part of the HomeSounds project. The second, a roaming broadcast from a number of locations amongst the dunes that ran loosely in a line from Winterton Lighthouse to the sea. The two streams were broadcast through the LocusSonus Soundmap, a collection of live-streaming microphones from around the world.

In Line With The Lighthouse encouraged you to listen and wait; to foster what Miriam Rose Ungunmerr calls 'quiet, still, awareness'. It asked the audience to reflect on human responses to the transient nature of an eroding coastline, and through listening, balance these responses with those of the non-human natural world. That is not to belittle the human response but to try, by listening, to truly understand it, and from this point seek to appreciate how these responses shape our interactions with, and influence upon, the world around us.

The renowned composer and sound-ecologist Hildegard Westerkamp has described listening as a cycle; our consciousness forever travelling between the world outside and the world within. Sound influences Self influences Sound. In Line With The Lighthouse invited you to take this tidal journey, and consider what is eroded away, what landscape is changed, with each wave of sound.

The HomeSounds project encourages everyone, particularly young people, to become Active Environmental Listeners. Through this work we have found many people, of all ages, desperately seeking the experiences that often accompany purposeful listening. Solace, trust, inspiration, understanding, space, confidence, faith.

released October 13, 2023

In Line With The Lighthouse has been commissioned as part of Moveable Estates, a 30-minute audio artwork, created by the spatial practitioners Cooking Sections, for an Arts Council funded project known collectively as 'New Geographies'. Cooking Sections were commissioned to produce an artwork for the New Geographies project by East Gallery, Norwich University of the Arts, as one member of the group ECVAN (the East Contemporary Visual Arts Network) who created the project.

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In Line With The Lighthouse by HomeSounds, released 13 October 2023 1. Dune Note 2. Pipe Drone 3. Pipe Note In Line With The Lighthouse was a collection of live-streamed broadcasts of acoustic habitats found at Winterton-On-Sea, Norfolk, UK across the 9th and 10th of October, 2021.

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A simple collection of extracts from HomeSounds live-streaming microphones installed at Sheringham Park and Pigneys Wood in Norfolk, UK. These extracts were recorded during the second UK lockdown in November and December 2020.

The intention is to offer, encourage, and renew opportunities for the listener to seek calm and focus, whatever their circumstances, in the midst of isolation and pressure.

A recording will be released everyday until the proposed final day of Lockdown on December 1st.

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One Month Album - September 2017, by Martin Scaiff

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A collection of field recordings with the theme of HomeSounds. These are mine. Recorded simply using a pair of Binaural microphones and audio recorder some are planned, most are spontaneous.

I spend a lot of my time walking the city with my young son, and September 2017 is no exception, which means that these recordings include many of the places we commonly visit.

This is the aim of the HomeSounds, to capture snapshots of sound with personal meaning. Hopefully they might mean something to you too...

This album is best listened to using Headphones.

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A collection of field recordings with the theme of HomeSounds. These are mine. Recorded simply using a pair of Binaural microphones and audio recorder some are planned, most are spontaneous.

I spend a lot of my time walking the city with my young son, and September 2017 is no exception, which means that these recordings include many of the places we commonly visit.

This is the aim of the HomeSounds, to capture snapshots of sound with personal meaning. Hopefully they might mean something to you too...

This album is best listened to using Headphones.

The HomeSounds project, created by Recast Music Education, uses Field Recording as a creative medium for supporting Looked After and Vulnerable young people.

www.recastmusiceducation.com/homesounds

All proceeds go towards developing and maintaining the HomeSounds project.

released October 1, 2017

All tracks were recorded using a pair of Luhd Binaural microphones and a homemade Binaural microphone named 'Bill'. They were recorded onto a Sony PCM D100 audio recorder.

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One Month Album - September 2017, by HomeSounds

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One Month Album - September 2017 by HomeSounds, released 01 October 2017 1. Spring Cannot Be Far Away 2. Dead Tree 1 3. Grapes Hill Footbridge 4. Grapes Hill Underpass 1 5. Maze Marbles 6. What Edith Cavell Hears 7. Hunting The Hedge Trimmer 8. Dead Tree 2 9.

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Riverlands - Blickling - Silvergate Stream

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Riverlands - Blickling - Silvergate Stream

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(NO LONGER LIVE)

This live-streaming microphone is found on the Silvergate Stream which runs through the Blickling Estate. The stream rises from the chalk aquifer in Oulton and travels through the Blickling Estate, joining the lake before entering the Bure. It has supported life on the estate by providing fresh water, fertile land for farming and water meadows for grazing for many years.

The name Blickling comes from the Old English term ‘Bekeling’ meaning a water meadow around a stream. As the stream runs from grazed water meadows into a wet woodland the microphone picks up the sounds of the water trickling over natural wood in the stream. The stream supports  sticklebacks and dragonfly larvae as well as water voles on its banks. Snipe, wren and yellow hammer can be seen visiting the water logged meadows and surrounding hedgerows.

The National Trust have been working with farmers to ensure the water quality of the stream is improved, supporting improvements in biodiversity of the stream as well as the receiving lake. Restoration works have been completed on the stream to restore its natural sinuosity and the meadows are currently undergoing improvements to support flower rich meadows.

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Welcome to Episode 1 of The HomeSounds Show!

The HomeSounds project began working with the National Trust in the autumn of 2022 through its Riverlands project and has installed two live-streaming microphones at their Felbrigg and Blickling Estates. Running Alongside these installations are a series of educational activities encouraging people to become more active in their environmental listening. The first of these is working with a small group of young people from Sidestrand School here in North Norfolk.

Towards the end of 2022 we ran a couple of sessions with this group at Sheringham Park, and at Felbrigg and in these we played listening games, explored the estates on foot, learnt about the wildlife and habitats of the area, and started to explore their acoustic habitats through listening and audio field recording. This episode focuses on a trip the group made to Horsey in Norfolk to see, and listen, to the Seals.

It was a typical bleak January winter's day when we all arrived at Horsey Wind Pump, but enthusiasm was high! We planned to walk the one and a half miles through the marshes, past the Nelson pub to a break in the sand dunes that run the length of the beach, and that provide a valuable barrier shielding the seals from public view. It was an ambitious aim….

We set the kids their first task; to channel their inner naturalist and make audio field notes as we trekked through muddy fields, on windy roads and across gravel paths to reach a natural spectacle that none of them had seen before.

Welcome home everybody!

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Riverlands
Horsey Seals

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Welcome to Episode 1 of The HomeSounds Show! The HomeSounds project began working with the National Trust in the autumn of 2022 through its Riverlands project and has installed two live-streaming microphones at their Felbrigg and Blickling Estates. Running Alongside these installations are a series…

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In 2018 HomeSounds installed its first live-streaming microphone on Cracking Hill in Sheringham Park. Working in partnership with the National trust the microphone broadcast the sounds of this acoustic habitat for over 2 years.

Alongisde the installation HomeSounds delivered a series of educational activities to encourage active environmental listening. These included a range of in-person and online soundwalks aimed at all ages.

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Welcome to Episode 2 of The HomeSounds Show!

The HomeSounds project began working with the National Trust in the autumn of 2022 through its Riverlands project and has installed two live-streaming microphones at their Felbrigg and Blickling Estates. Running Alongside these installations are a series of educational activities encouraging people to become more active in their environmental listening. The first of these is working with a small group of young people from Sidestrand School here in North Norfolk.

Towards the end of 2022 we ran a couple of sessions with this group at Sheringham Park, and at Felbrigg and in these we played listening games, explored the estates on foot, learnt about the wildlife and habitats of the area, and started to explore their acoustic habitats through listening and audio field recording. This episode focuses on a trip the group made to Sheringham Park in Norfolk to listen for the unmistakable spring sounds of woodpeckers.

Welcome home everybody!

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Riverlands
Sheringham Park

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Sheringham Park - Woodpeckers - The HomeSounds Show

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Welcome to Episode 2 of The HomeSounds Show! The HomeSounds project began working with the National Trust in the autumn of 2022 through its Riverlands project and has installed two live-streaming microphones at their Felbrigg and Blickling Estates. Running Alongside these installations are a series of educational activities encouraging people to become more active in their environmental listening.

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Morston Marsh - Curlew, Red Shank and Oyster Catcher

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Welcome to Episode 3 of The HomeSounds Show!

The HomeSounds project began working with the National Trust in the autumn of 2022 through its Riverlands project and has installed two live-streaming microphones at their Felbrigg and Blickling Estates. Running Alongside these installations are a series of educational activities encouraging people to become more active in their environmental listening. The first of these is working with a small group of young people from Sidestrand School here in North Norfolk.

Towards the end of 2022 we ran a couple of sessions with this group at Sheringham Park, and at Felbrigg and in these we played listening games, explored the estates on foot, learnt about the wildlife and habitats of the area, and started to explore their acoustic habitats through listening and audio field recording. This episode focuses on a trip the group made to Morston Marsh on the North Norfolk coast to learn about wading birds, the hardy inhabitants of this mysterious and iconic landscape.

Welcome home everybody!

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Riverlands
Morston Quay

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Morston Marsh - Curlew, Red Shank and Oyster Catcher - The HomeSounds Show

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Welcome to Episode 3 of The HomeSounds Show! The HomeSounds project began working with the National Trust in the autumn of 2022 through its Riverlands project and has installed two live-streaming microphones at their Felbrigg and Blickling Estates. Running Alongside these installations are a series of educational activities encouraging people to become more active in their environmental listening.

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Welcome to episode 4 of The HomeSounds Show!

HomeSounds creator Martin Scaiff is joined by exquisite musician and friend Jesse Barrett. Together they attempt to discuss and demonstrate something of the role acoustic habitats play in shaping our creativity. They also fall in a big hole, try to start a rumour about a fish-man-creature of the broads and spot a heron.

After walking and recording at Wheatfen they retire to Jesse’s self-built studio-come-motorcycle workshop to improvise a piece of sound inspired by the morning.

Welcome home everybody!

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Wheatfen Nature Reserve
Mammal Hands

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Wheatfen - Jesse Barrett - The HomeSounds Show

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Welcome to episode 4 of The HomeSounds Show! HomeSounds creator Martin Scaiff is joined by exquisite musician and friend Jesse Barrett. Together they attempt to discuss and demonstrate something of the role acoustic habitats play in shaping our creativity. They also fall in a big hole, try to start a rumour about a fish-man-creature of the broads and spot a heron.

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Welcome to episode 5 of The HomeSounds Show!

The HomeSounds project began working with the National Trust in the autumn of 2022 through its Riverlands project and has installed two live-streaming microphones at their Felbrigg and Blickling Estates. Running Alongside these installations are a series of educational activities encouraging people to become more active in their environmental listening. The first of these is working with a small group of young people from Sidestrand School here in North Norfolk.

In these sessions we play listening games, explore on foot, learn about the wildlife of the area, and tune in to their acoustic habitats through listening and audio field recording. This show is the first of two parts in which we visit Felbrigg Hall. In part 1 we are listening for the recently arriving migrant birds; the Chiff Chaff and Blackcap. In part 2 we learn about some work taking place at Felbrigg to improve the Scarrowbeck Stream that flows through the estate . This work intends to create new habitats for wildlife by restoring the streams natural flow.

Welcome home everybody!

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Riverlands
Felbrigg Hall
Norfolk Rivers Trust

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Felbrigg - Chiff Chaff and Blackcap - The HomeSounds Show

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Welcome to episode 5 of The HomeSounds Show! The HomeSounds project began working with the National Trust in the autumn of 2022 through its Riverlands project and has installed two live-streaming microphones at their Felbrigg and Blickling Estates. Running Alongside these installations are a series of educational activities encouraging people to become more active in their environmental listening.

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Welcome to episode 6 of The HomeSounds Show!

The HomeSounds project began working with the National Trust in the autumn of 2022 through its Riverlands project and has installed two live-streaming microphones at their Felbrigg and Blickling Estates. Running Alongside these installations are a series of educational activities encouraging people to become more active in their environmental listening. The first of these is working with a small group of young people from Sidestrand School here in North Norfolk.

In these sessions we play listening games, explore on foot, learn about the wildlife of the area, and tune in to their acoustic habitats through listening and audio field recording. This show is the second of two parts in which we visit Felbrigg Hall. In part 1 we listened for recently arriving migrant birds. In particular the Chiff Chaff and Blackcap. For this episode, part 2, we learn about some work taking place at Felbrigg to improve the Scarrowbeck Stream that flows through the estate .

This work intends to create new habitats for wildlife by restoring the streams natural flow. We talk with Ursula from the Norfolk Rivers Trust who explains why and how they are doing this project. We explore the acoustic habitat by dropping hydrophones into newly created ponds and walk along the stream investigating the creatures and plants that populate the water and stream bank.

Welcome home everybody!

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Riverlands
Felbrigg Hall
Norfolk Rivers Trust

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Felbrigg - Scarrowbeck Stream - The HomeSounds Show

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Welcome to episode 6 of The HomeSounds Show! The HomeSounds project began working with the National Trust in the autumn of 2022 through its Riverlands project and has installed two live-streaming microphones at their Felbrigg and Blickling Estates. Running Alongside these installations are a series of educational activities encouraging people to become more active in their environmental listening.

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Incleborough Hill - Gorse Hatchers and Devils Guts

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Incleborough Hill - Gorse Hatchers and Devils Guts

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Welcome to episode 7 of The HomeSounds Show!

The HomeSounds project began working with the National Trust in the autumn of 2022 through its Riverlands project and has installed two live-streaming microphones at their Felbrigg and Blickling Estates. Running Alongside these installations are a series of educational activities encouraging people to become more active in their environmental listening.

In these sessions we play listening games, explore on foot, learn about the wildlife of the area, and tune in to their acoustic habitats through listening and audio field recording. For todays episode we visit Incleborough Hill on the North Norfolk Coast, where a small group of us traversed the rises and falls of the Cromer ridge. Military jets training in the clear coastal skies made sound recording pretty difficult, but we found some temporary havens amongst the din. We also discuss the habitat management of the area, share tales of the shrieking pits, and see the Devils own Guts strewn wildly across the gorse bushes.

Welcome home everybody!

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Riverlands
Incleborough Hill

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Incleborough Hill - Gorse Hatchers and Devils Guts - The HomeSounds Show

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Welcome to episode 7 of The HomeSounds Show! The HomeSounds project began working with the National Trust in the autumn of 2022 through its Riverlands project and has installed two live-streaming microphones at their Felbrigg and Blickling Estates. Running Alongside these installations are a series of educational activities encouraging people to become more active in their environmental listening.

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Sheringham Park - Rhodie Bashing and Bio-sonification

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Sheringham Park - Rhodie Bashing and Bio-sonification

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Welcome to episode 8 of The HomeSounds Show!

The HomeSounds project began working with the National Trust in the autumn of 2022 through its Riverlands project and has installed two live-streaming microphones at their Felbrigg and Blickling Estates. Running Alongside these installations are a series of educational activities encouraging people to become more active in their environmental listening.

In today's episode we are joined at Sheringham Park by staff and young people from Norwich City College's MINT employment project. This project focuses on getting young people aged between 16 and 25yrs into sustainable paid employment. The aim of the today's walk was to give the group some experience of working as a ranger at the National Trust, as well as to to get them actively listening to the environment, and learning about the habitat and wildlife of the park. With the help of current ranger Hannah Blades, the group took part in some Rhodie bashing, a colloquial term for managing the Rhodedenron plants that whilst a major attraction of the park, are also invasive and damaging to its bio-diversity.

Throughout the day we tried to capture something of the sounds of the working life of the park. We also introduced the group to bio-sonification, a tool for translating the electrical currents created by organisms, in this case Rhodedendron, into sound. Everyone was wondering what the plants were going to say...

Welcome home everybody!

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Symbiotic (Bio-sonification device)
Sheringham Park
MINT Project

Image Credit: National Trust

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Sheringham Park - Rhodie-bashing and Bio-sonification

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Welcome to episode 8 of The HomeSounds Show! The HomeSounds project began working with the National Trust in the autumn of 2022 through its Riverlands project and has installed two live-streaming microphones at their Felbrigg and Blickling Estates. Running Alongside these installations are a series…

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A collection of extracts from an interview with artist, sound designer and musican Oliver Payne.

Recorded for the 'Lessons From Listening' series this collection is drawn from a discussion held in November 2019 in the garden of the Octagon Chapel, Norwich, between Oliver and Martin Scaiff, Director of Recast Music Education.

The intention of the discussion, from the HomeSounds point of view, was to gather together many disparate strands of thought around environmental listening and its potential benefits for human beings, and in turn understand how these thoughts might be translated into activities, projects and experiences offered by both the HomeSounds project and the music and disabilities charity Musical Keys, for which Oliver is programme manager. In addition the aim was to share this with anyone interested in how listening can benefit human creativity, education, health and well-being.

The 'Lessons From Listening' series aims to provide context, connections, and inspiration to, and from, the HomeSounds project as it evolves.

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A collection of extracts from an interview with artist, sound designer and musican Oliver Payne.

Recorded for the 'Lessons From Listening' series this collection is drawn from a discussion held in November 2019 in the garden of the Octagon Chapel, Norwich, between Oliver and Martin Scaiff, Director of Recast Music Education.

The intention of the discussion, from the HomeSounds point of view, was to gather together many disparate strands of thought around environmental listening and its potential benefits for human beings, and in turn understand how these thoughts might be translated into activities, projects and experiences offered by both the HomeSounds project and the music and disabilities charity Musical Keys, for which Oliver is programme manager. In addition the aim was to share this with anyone interested in how listening can benefit human creativity, education, health and well-being.

The 'Lessons From Listening' series aims to provide context, connections, and inspiration to, and from, the HomeSounds project as it evolves.

All proceeds go towards the continuation of the HomeSounds project.

released October 15, 2020

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Lessons From Listening - Oliver Payne, by HomeSounds

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Lessons From Listening - Oliver Payne by HomeSounds, released 15 October 2020 1. Environmental Listening Feels Good But I Don't Know Why 2. Environmental Listening And Dementia 3. Instinct - Tangible And Untangible 4. The Future Of Environmental Listening Projects 5. The Responsibility Of Listening 6.

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A collection of Binaural recordings made in September 2019 by HomeSounds aboard the Excelsior, a traditional fishing smack operating out of Lowestoft, Suffolk. The Excelsior Trust is a charitable organisation that provides life-changing sialing experiences for young and disadvantaged young people, and others, whilst preserving and maintaing one of the UK's most historic ships.

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about

A collection of Binaural recordings made in September 2019 aboard the Excelsior, a traditional fishing smack operating out of Lowestoft, Suffolk. The Excelsior Trust is a charitable organisation that provides life-changing sialing experiences for young and disadvantaged young people, and others, whilst preserving and maintaing one of the UK's most historic ships.

Listen with headphones.

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HomeSounds:Excelsior - Binaural Ship Tour, by HomeSounds

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HomeSounds:Excelsior - Binaural Ship Tour by HomeSounds, released 01 October 2020 1. Aft Quarters 2. Bow Sprit 3. Midship 4. Fore Bunks 5. Forepeak 6. The Galley A collection of Binaural recordings made in September 2019 aboard the Excelsior, a traditional fishing smack operating out of Lowestoft, Suffolk.

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HomeSounds director Martin Scaiff soundwalks with naturalist and outdoor educator Rob Coleman along the beach, among the rockpools and upon the dunes of the tiny North Norfolk village of Salthouse in the UK.

On a cold autumn night they listen to the North Sea as it washes the heavy shingle into its myriad unrepeatable shapes, tune into bats feeding on insects, in turn feeding on a line of stranded starfish, and drop hydrophones into the small rock pools whose water the retreating tide has forgotten to take with it.

Everything you hear was recorded on the night by Martin and Rob.

Welcome home everybody.

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HomeSounds director Martin Scaiff soundwalks with naturalist and outdoor educator Rob Coleman along the beach, among the rockpools and upon the dunes of the tiny North Norfolk village of Salthouse in the UK.

On a cold autumn night they listen to the North Sea as it washes the heavy shingle into its myriad unrepeatable shapes, tune into bats feeding on insects, in turn feeding on a line of stranded starfish, and drop hydrophones into the small rock pools whose water the retreating tide has forgotten to take with it.

Everything you hear was recorded on the night by Martin and Rob.

Welcome home everybody.

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Salthouse - 3rd October, 2020, by HomeSounds

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Salthouse - 3rd October, 2020 by HomeSounds, released 20 July 2022

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in 2019 HomeSounds installed a live-streaming microphone at the beautiful Wheatfen Nature Reserve in the Norfolk Broads. This shared the rich and diverse acoustic habitat of the reserve for over a year, and was accompanied by in-person and online soundwalks and other active environmental listening activities.

It was a sad day when it had to be switched off!

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Grimes Graves - Live-Streaming Microphone

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Grimes Graves - Live-Streaming Microphone

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Through its collaboration with Norwich Science Festival and English Heritage, HomeSounds installed a live-streaming microphone at the unique and fascinating Grimes Graves.

This microphone broadcast the acoustic habitat of this ancient area of breckland for over a year and was accompanied by a series of online and in-persons soundwalks.

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Pigneys Wood - Live-Streaming Microphone

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Pigneys Wood - Live-Streaming Microphone

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Through its collaboration with Norwich Science Festival and Norfolk Wildlife Trust HomeSounds installed a live-streaming microphone in the popular community space of Pigneys Wood, just outside North Walsham in Norfolk.

The microphone broadcast its acoustic habitat for over a year and was accompanied by a series of in-person and online soundwalks to encourage active environmental listening.

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Norwich - Norwich International Youth Project

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Norwich - Norwich International Youth Project

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HomeSounds delivered an active environmental listening workshop for NIYP that engaged participants in field-recording and the sounds of sloughbottom park in Norwich.

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HomeSounds delivered a number of active environmental listening workshops for Nurture UK at Wensum Junior School in Norwich.

These workshops included soundwalks around the school grounds, listening games and creative listening activities.

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Norwich - HomeSounds at City Academy Norwich

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Norwich - HomeSounds at City Academy Norwich

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In collaboration with Mancroft Advice Project and City Academy Norwich HomeSounds delivered an after-school environmental listening club which ran for over a year.

Activities included creative listening sessions, sound-walks on school grounds and at nature reserves and other locations around Norfolk. The project also supported the creation and running of the live-streaming microphones at Wheatfen and Sheringham Park.

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Dark Skies Festival - Sheringham Park - Oliver Payne

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These long-form compositions were built around two recordings of pipistrelle bats captured by the HomeSounds project.

The raw recordings were processed in a series of patches designed to modulate the sound in a number of ways, focusing on small changes in dynamic and tonal variety. Additional synthesised instruments were added on Fledermaus and Sunset.

These tracks were created for a live-stream sound-walk, produced by HomeSounds, for the 2020 North Norfolk Dark Skies Festival. They were accurately mixed with live environmental sound, captured and broadcast by a live-streaming microphone installed by HomeSounds at Sheringham Park, for an extended period of time.

To reflect the intention of the listening context the music has been mixed with field recordings made by Oliver. Fledermaus with Sunset features a recording documenting the edge of a woodland at sunset in Dulwich. Natbakka and Rooks features recordings of an early winter roosting of rooks at Buckenham marshes.

The original live-stream sound-walk can be taken again here: bit.ly/DSF20SP

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These long-form compositions were built around two recordings of pipistrelle bats captured by the HomeSounds project.

The raw recordings were processed in a series of patches designed to modulate the sound in a number of ways, focusing on small changes in dynamic and tonal variety. Additional synthesised instruments were added on Fledermaus and Sunset.

These tracks were created for a live-stream sound-walk, produced by HomeSounds, for the 2020 North Norfolk Dark Skies Festival. They were accurately mixed with live environmental sound, captured and broadcast by a live-streaming microphone installed by HomeSounds at Sheringham Park, for an extended period of time.

To reflect the intention of the listening context the music has been mixed with field recordings made by Oliver. Fledermaus with Sunset features a recording documenting the edge of a woodland at sunset in Dulwich. Natbakka and Rooks features recordings of an early winter roosting of rooks at Buckenham marshes.

The original live-stream sound-walk can be taken again here: bit.ly/DSF20SP

released October 29, 2020

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Dark Skies Festival - Sheringham Park, by Oliver Payne

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Dark Skies Festival - Sheringham Park by Oliver Payne, released 29 October 2020 1. Fledermaus and Suffolk Sunset 2. Natbakka and Rooks These long-form compositions were built around two recordings of pipistrelle bats captured by the HomeSounds project.

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Titchwell Marsh - Live-streaming Microphone

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Titchwell Marsh - Live-streaming Microphone

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Through its partnership with Norwich Science Festival and the RSPB HomeSounds installed a live-streaming microphone at Titchwell Marsh, a thriving, vibrant and historic nature reserve in North Norfolk.

The microphone broadcast for over a year sharing the sounds of this special place and engaging audiences through in-person and online soundwalks.

The microphone moved locations across the year, with this site being used for Spring/Summer.

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Titchwell Marsh - Live-streaming Microphone 

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The Autumn/Winter site for the live-streaming microphone at Titchwell Marsh.

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Framlingham Library, Bridge Street, Framlingham, Woodbridge

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Seconds.Of.Sound England, UK

Seconds.Of.Sound (S.O.S) urges you to dedicate moments to listening. series of walks between every library in Suffolk, the recordings here are moments from these places.

Accompanying a

S.O.S was created by Martin Scaiff as Environmentalist in Residence for Suffolk Libraries. The residency is generously supported by Arts Council England.

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Framlingham to Stradbroke - 19800s, by Seconds.Of.Sound

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Stradbroke Library, Queen Street, Stradbroke, Eye

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Stradbroke to Eye

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Stradbroke to Eye - 15720s, by Seconds.Of.Sound

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Eye to Needham Market - 24000s, by Seconds.Of.Sound

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Needham Market Library, School Street, Needham Market, Ipswich

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Needham Market to Stowmarket to Elmswell

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Needham Market to Stowmarket to Elmswell

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Needham Market to Stowmarket to Elmswell - 17520s, by Seconds.Of.Sound

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Elmswell Library, Cooks Road, Bury St Edmunds, Bury Saint Edmunds

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Elmswell to Thurston to Ixworth to Moreton Hall to Bury St Edmunds

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Elmswell to Thurston to Ixworth to Moreton Hall to Bury St Edmunds

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Elmswell to Thurston to Ixworth to Moreton Hall to Bury St Edmunds - 28200s, by Seconds.Of.Sound

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Bury St Edmunds Library, Saint Andrew's Street North, Bury Saint Edmunds

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Bury St Edmunds to Brandon - 27840s, by Seconds.Of.Sound

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Brandon to Lakenheath to Mildenhall - 20460s, by Seconds.Of.Sound

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Mildenhall Library, Mildenhall Hub, Sheldrick Way, Mildenhall, Bury Saint Edmunds

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Mildenhall to Newmarket - 16980s, by Seconds.Of.Sound

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Newmarket Library, The Guineas, Newmarket

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Newmarket to Haverhill - 23160s, by Seconds.Of.Sound

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Haverhill Library, Camps Road, Haverhill

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Haverhill to Kedington to Clare to Glemsford

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Haverhill to Kedington to Clare to Glemsford

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Haverhill to Kedington to Clare to Glemsford - 26100s, by Seconds.Of.Sound

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Glemsford to Long Milford to Sudbury to Lavenham

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Glemsford to Long Milford to Sudbury to Lavenham

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Glemsford to Long Melford to Sudbury to Lavenham - 18960s, by Seconds.Of.Sound

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Introduction Welcome home everybody, and welcome to The HomeSounds Show. In this episode, recorded in the late summer of 2020, Rob and I visit a section of We

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Welcome to The HomeSounds Show! In this episode, the first of two parts, Martin interviews acoustician and naturalist Michael Stocker. Drawing inspiration from

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Welcome to The HomeSounds Show!

In this episode, the second of two parts, Martin continues his interview with acoustician and naturalist Michael Stocker. Drawing inspiration from Michael's wonderfully free-ranging and rich book, Hear Where We Are, the conversation, and accompanying audio extracts, explore the myriad themes within Michaels book and relate these to the experiences of the HomeSounds project. The book examines how humans and other hearing animals use sound to establish relationships with their surroundings. It does this by examining sound in incredible scientific detail and mixing this with stories of everyday human experience and emotion. As well as enriching our understanding of sound, the book is inspired by a desire to shed light on seemingly illogical and self-destructive human behaviour, so often unconsciously and profoundly influenced by sound.

With an extensive background advising on and designing sound environments for clients including the National Holocaust museum in Washington D.C., George Lucas's 'Skywalker Ranch', the Monterrey Bay Aquarium, Mexico City's children's musuem 'El Museo Papalote', and numerous Hollywood sound and film studios, Michael is now the director of Ocean Conservation Research, an organisation seeking to understand the impacts of human generated noise on marine life, a theme touched on in both our conversation, and the sound extracts selected by Michael and I.

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Arctic - Michael Stocker (Part 2) - The HomeSounds Show

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Welcome to The HomeSounds Show! In this episode, the second of two parts, Martin continues his interview with acoustician and naturalist Michael Stocker. Drawing inspiration from Michael's wonderfully free-ranging and rich book, Hear Where We Are, the conversation, and accompanying audio extracts, explore the myriad themes within Michaels book and relate these to the experiences of the HomeSounds project.

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National Trust - Felbrigg Hall, Gardens & Estate, Felbrigg, Norwich

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Welcome home everybody, and welcome to The HomeSounds Show! In this episode, Rob and I are looking for mushrooms, not only because of their incredible variety

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Welcome home everybody!

In this episode Rob and I lead our Sidestrand School group on a walk along the shingle and sand dunes of Blakeney Point, a spit of land on the North Norfolk Coast that is incrementally lost to the sea as it rolls out for 4 miles.

The point is a national nature reserve currently managed by the National Trust, and it gives protection for Blakeney Harbour and the surrounding salt marshes, which in turn provide habitats for a vast array of resident and migratory wildlife. The point is known internationally for spectacular displays of summer breeding Terns and also for its winter breeding colony of grey seals, which make up roughly 30% of the world's total population, and giving birth this season to almost 5000 pups.

After a mile or so of labouring along the shingle we came across a small group of 8 to 10 adult seals. we didn't want to get too close and instead decided to watch them through scopes and binoculars, and listen using parabolic and shotgun microphones.

In the end we weren't able to make good audio recordings of the seals, partly because their calling can be infrequent and muffled by the roaring sea, but also because the thrill of seeing them spawned an almost constant excited chatter amongst our human troop. This didn't mean the trip wasn't worthwhile though. The effort of walking on shingle, the fun and challenge of being in a wild environment, and the positivity garnered from getting out of school, hanging out with your friends and experiencing something totally new gave the trip its meaning.

LINKS

NT Blakeney Point - https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/norfolk/blakeney-national-nature-reserve
Where to see Seals in Norfolk - https://www.visitnorfolk.co.uk/post/where-to-see-the-seals-in-norfolk

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Blakeney Point - Experience - The HomeSounds Show

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Welcome home everybody! In this episode Rob and I lead our Sidestrand School group on a walk along the shingle and sand dunes of Blakeney Point, a spit of land on the North Norfolk Coast that is incrementally lost to the sea as it rolls out for 4 miles.

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Sheringham Park - Birds Round The Feeder

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Sheringham Park - Birds Round The Feeder

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Welcome Home Everybody!

In this episode Rob and I have invited our group of young people from Sidestrand School to Sheringham Park. A regular venue for us, we make the education centre at the park our base for today's adventures.

On this trip we're hoping to be able to watch, listen to and learn more about the bird life of the park, particularly those that visit the feeders at the education centre. We also hoped to take a walk through the park's extensive pine woodland and do some communal listening activities....at least as long as the taps of this wet spring remain off!

Sheringham Park

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Sheringham Park - Birds Round The Feeder - The HomeSounds Show

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Welcome Home Everybody! In this episode Rob and I have invited our group of young people from Sidestrand School to Sheringham Park. A regular venue for us, we make the education centre at the park our base for today's adventures.

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Across A Distance - Ximena Alarcon (Part 1)

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Welcome Home Everybody! In this episode, the first of two which have been created as part of HomeSounds ‘Lessons from Listening’ series, Martin talks with

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Across A Distance - Ximena Alarcon (Part 2)

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Welcome Home Everybody! In this episode, the second of two which have been created as part of HomeSounds ‘Lessons from Listening’ series, Martin talks with

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Welcome home everybody!

In this episode, Rob led our Sidestrand school group on a hunt for Hares across the North Norfolk Countryside. Using the school minibus as a mobile hide, we scampered down country lanes, and pitched in opportune parking spots when we either came across suitable hare habitats, or spotted one sitting on, or sprinting across, a farmers field.

To aid our hunt, we made use of a Hare Call to try to draw them closer, or peak their interest. A classic anthropogenic sound of the countryside, the Hare Call peaked out attention about as much as it did the hares.

LINKS

www.homesounds.org

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Fields of North Norfolk - March Hares - The HomeSounds Show

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Welcome home everybody! In this episode, Rob led our Sidestrand school group on a hunt for Hares across the North Norfolk Countryside. Using the school minibus as a mobile hide, we scampered down country lanes, and pitched in opportune parking spots when we either came across suitable hare habitats, or spotted one sitting on, or sprinting across, a farmers field.

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