As the Season Turns
As The Season Turns est produit en collaboration avec Lia Leendertz, autrice de The Almanac: A Seasonal Guide. Le podcast en est aujourd’hui à sa cinquième édition.
Chaque épisode paraît le premier du mois et suit le paysage changeant des saisons - de la lune et des étoiles aux marées et aux arbres.
Found Sounds paraissent le vendredi du milieu de chaque mois - ces brefs et doux fragments d’un lieu sauvage du Royaume-Uni sont composés par l’artiste sonore Alice Boyd à partir d’enregistrements de terrain, de musique et d’entretiens.
October
For October we’re amid grass-spiked sand dunes, where small birds scrap over autumn berries. Late bees search for nectar ahead of winter, a rare toad crouches amid the roses and sea buckthorn, and the wind whistles, carrying songs of mermaids in from the sea. In the water, flounders flip and shimmy through the shallows, while in the sky above we see the trail of a great comet.
Found Sound for September: Charlotte Church
For September, Alice visits iconic Welsh singer Charlotte Church at The Dreaming, the retreat she has created in the Welsh countryside. Alice and Charlotte explore the ancient Welsh rainforest as their conversation moves through nature, music, ritual and creativity - and our relationship with the land.
September
For September, we’re on a shingle beach, where the shifting pebbles reveal unexpected life. Tall stalks of wild fennel have long memories to share, while above us black-headed gulls call insistently in the fading sky. At sea, tiger-striped mackerel slip and shimmer through the waves, displacing the water as our feet dislodge small lichens on shore, where we listen out for story and song. This is an edgeland, where nothing stays the same for long...
Found Sound for August: Jackie Morris
Jackie Morris has the word ‘entrance’ on her studio floor - to remind her that’s her job, she says. For August, Alice visited Jackie at home on the wild Pembrokeshire coast, to be entranced by Jackie’s reflections on her extraordinary career as one of Britain’s most celebrated illustrators, revealing an artistic practice rooted in her deep belief that we are not separate from nature, but part of it.
August
In this August episode, it’s an unsettled day on the estuary. As the tide retreats the mud gives up its treasures - molluscs, aromatic wild herbs and the calls of wetland birds. In the water, small sharks scull through the shallows, while back on shore we hear tales of transformation, and a gentle song of the harvest.
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