Enquiring Ear

Field recording and found sounds

Month: November 2010

  • Snape Snippet

    Snape Snippet

    As the pied wagtails swoop over the concert hall that backs onto the reedbeds sighing in the wind, a middle-aged couple climb the steps, the guy sounding knowledgeable, to impress the lady maybe? Or perhaps a couple that have been together for years. The accents are just as you’d expect, middle-class, ever so slightly affected.

    The hysterical horse is a bronze sculpture in the distance, looking out over the reeds

  • Swans taking off, Grundisburgh

    It’s not that easy to catch the beginning of swans taking off, but these took off while I was recording near a reservoir at Grundisburgh, with the ungainly splashing and creaking of wings.