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Ancient wetland wood in a gale; inside and outside a creaky tree

East Suffolk, Suffolk, East of England, England, United Kingdom

A 13-minute field recording by Peter Cusack made in Lowestoft, United Kingdom on 5 July 2020, in the afternoon. Soundscape: wind, forests and contact-mic recordings.

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Ancient wetland wood in a gale; inside and outside a creaky tree
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Recordist's notes

A snippet from several days of gales. Fen covert is a very atmospheric old wetland wood, left untouched for decades. The birches and alders have fallen, slanted, grown and died into fantastic mossy shapes and sculptures. A dead tree, cracked but still upright leans on another. They move together in the wind. The creak is faintly audible to the ear amongst the hiss and swell of leaves and branches, but very loud and close to the contact mic placed in the trunk. This track is a mix of the outer and inner sounds in sync.

Written by Peter Cusack on radio aporee ::: maps.

About the place

Lowestoft is a town of about 71,327 people in England, United Kingdom. OttoAnna lists 143 field recordings from here.

Equipment mentioned: Contact microphones. Piezo pickups that record vibrations in solid materials instead of airborne sound.

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