Hugh Huddy
Radio Lento
Not specifically for children, but each episode features a lovely landscape sound postcards in 3D immersive sound. Best with earphones. Listen while reading, resting or being mindful.
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Episode One: Episode 1 – Suffolk wood at 6am
This is an Episodic show. You can listen to it in any order, but episode one is always a great place to start.
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Created by: Hugh Huddy
Started: March 29th, 2020
Status: Active, 278 episodes
Kind: Episodic
Language: English
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Episodes
Summer sunrise over a lake in the Lee Valley – raucous birds start the day
43:34 | Episode: 22 | July 26th, 2020
The Lee Valley reservoir chain comprises thirteen lakes that separate the London Boroughs of Haringey and Enfield to the west from Waltham Forest and Essex in the east. The area is made up of marshes and parkland, rich in wildlife, including woodland and water birds. This recording is of the dawn chorus around 5am when nobody is around. It was captured by a pair of microphones looking out over the lake from a tree that overhangs the water’s edge in the Fishers Green Nature Reserve. It starts gently, water birds dabbling around for food, and builds up over 40 minutes to swirling raucous gulls and flapping flocks of geese taking off and landing, against a backdrop of woodland birds from the surrounding area, and the sound of distant traffic on the A10. It’s a surcluded spot on the soily bank, almost close enough to dip your feet in, hidden under trees, an ideal position to listen to life on the lake.
Murmurs of the Kerry Ridgeway (part 2) – what rush hour sounds like in the hills of mid-Wales
01:03:21 | Episode: 21 | July 20th, 2020
Over the hills above the sun is going down. It’s been a warm dry April day along the Kerry Ridgeway. High pressure, light breezes. It’s late afternoon and cars, tractors, farm vehicles and the odd lorry rattle past. Hidden behind hedgerows down a steep bank a timeless stream flows under trees. It is alive with birds. The ground is ankle deep with dry leaves. Occasionally a roving bee comes along, to look at the microphones. This is a secluded spot in a wide open landscape of steep fields and woodland.
Arable farmland in the Essex countryside
37:09 | Episode: 20 | July 12th, 2020
Along a narrow footpath that threaded through wide open farmland we came across a lonely outcrop of young and exposed oak trees. Their dry leaves hushed and rustled and hissed in response to the changing strength of the wind. It blew quite strong at times. We set up the microphones to record. The occasional lilting bird calls are from a buzzard, a broad-winged hawk that was circling the area. About five minutes into the recording a tractor began mowing a neighbouring field. These are the sounds of nature, the wind and of a worked landscape. At the end the buzzard flew right over us as we came to collect the microphones.
Suffolk Wood (part 4) – 11pm
58:53 | Episode: 19 | July 5th, 2020
Inside the wood the ambience is changing from evening to night. Now it is owned by the crickets, hidden in carpets of leaves. Muntjac deer move about softly. Twigs and dead branches drop surprisingly often into the soft ground with a thud. Aircraft of indeterminate origin over-fly the wood at high altitude. Owls call. The parish church strikes midnight near the end. Deep listening with headphones helps to uncover the qualities within this recording.
A summer walk in rural Hertfordshire – sunshine and showers
22:24 | Episode: 18 | June 29th, 2020
Yesterday on an ancient bridleway that runs through open farmland, just before the rain clouds caught us up, we stopped for a picnic on the edge of a wheat field. As the clouds approached we recorded the sounds of the strong breezes playing in the dry wheat and through an outcrop of trees. The wind dropped and we carried on walking along the bridleway as the rain fell, scattered through the leaves of the trees that line the path either side. The sun came out, the air became heavy and humid. Crickets signalled to each other, hidden in the thick grass,
Cathedral of trees – the Forest of Dean (part 1)
43:17 | Episode: 17 | June 21st, 2020
About a kilometre into the forest we left the microphones strapped to the trunk of a huge ancient tree. The spot was well off the beaten path and opened onto a natural clearing with a cathedral like acoustic sound. This recording starts just after 9pm to capture the sound of twilight turning to dark. At 33m there’s an owl. More at 40m. Then the strange call of a woodcock.
Early summer breezes
43:24 | Episode: 16 | June 14th, 2020
On a warm breezy walk in the Essex countryside, we left the microphones in a tree at the top of a rarely used bridleway to record the sound of the wind. The tree was one of an outcrop that lines fields of barley and home to a robin. High above the fields are skylarks, not a common sound these days. In the distance there’s the odd ice cream van too in the Lea Valley Park. It’s a lovely spot to get away from everything and soak up the warm sun grassy freshness and summery sounds. Recorded in June as London’s first lockdown started to ease.
Sound-scenes of ocean waves
22:19 | Episode: 15 | June 8th, 2020
On-shore wind cuffing at the ears, breakers hauling at pebble banks, walking over shingle ridges to greet the incoming tide. Soft sands, waves retreating leave fizzing foam to dissolve over seaweed at the strandline. Wading ankle deep in warm lazy seawater rippled into dizzying motion by the breeze. Heavy waves lug at the quayside wall clicking with barnacles. Five scenes: 1. Rye Harbour England. 2. Brighton Beach England. 3. St Just, Cornwall and then 4. a sandy beach on the Adriatic coast Italy. 5. Fowey Harbour England.
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Created by: Hugh Huddy
Started:
March 29th, 2020
Status: Active, 278 episodes
Kind: Episodic
Language: English
This is just so relaxing to listen to.