![]() ![]() I set the baffle and its pair of mics to face south, then went to sit on a tree stump about forty yards away. I listened briefly through headphones and swivelled the baffle this way and that before noticing how the flights of ducks and geese seemed to go from east to west. The pre-amp and recorder were switched on. "I set the tripod down on a path running between the wood to the north and the reed-beds of New Fen to the south. Birds hadn't stopped calling all night but now the intensity and variety of cries and songs was growing. I stopped then moved on: the light was obscured. A small wood drew close and there was a brief pinpoint of light among the tree trunks. "At around half past four in the morning I struggled out of my sleeping bag and began to walk east, carrying my bulky wooden mic baffle on its tripod. A distant machine tone came from somewhere to the south-east: perhaps from an agribusiness factory. "A bittern called from time to time, sounding like someone blowing over the wide top of an old milk bottle. The extraordinary sound of massed birdsong, the wind thrumming against an abandoned pumping station, the sound of common seals. They chart the journey of natural sounds from dusk until dawn. ![]() ![]() Like many of Ian’s projects, there was a tight logic to this collection. It roams across the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk to places whose sounds have a precarious existence outside the crowded realities of modern everyday life.īefore his death in 2021, Ian Rawes had been making recordings across East Anglia, notably at Lakenheath Fen, an RSPB reserve on the Norfolk/Suffolk border. ‘From Dusk Till Dawn' is a sound-journey through the dark in East Anglia, UK. Persistence of Sound presents a posthumous album of field recordings from The London Sound Survey. It has the ear, flair and tone of Ian Rawes as a storyteller, and through the salt spray of Winterton beach I can see him beaming." ![]()
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