Field Recordings: The Sound of 2022
Eleanor McDowall (UK 2022)
57 min
A slow weave of some of the past year’s Field Recordings, from a clock repair shop in January to snow falling in December. As 2022 comes to a close, what do we remember? Let these sounds lull you into the new year away from the noise.
Clock repair shop, London, UK on Saturday 22nd January 2022 at 11am – by Andrew Strangeway
Trumpeter Swans, Sauvie Island Wildlife Area Portland, Oregon, USA on 28th January 2022 – by Jason Hovatter
Transmission Tower, Portland, Oregon, USA on 8th February 2022 – by Jason Hovatter
The bells at St Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery, Kyiv, Ukraine on Sunday 13th February 2022 at 4.43pm – by Barny Smith
Ironbark Gorge, Victoria, Australia in the early morning on Sunday 20th February 2022 – by Anouk and Camilla Hannan
Woodpeckers by the water, Buckinghamshire, England, in March 2022 – by Paul Ridout
Night train, Vedia, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina in April 2022 – by Joaquín Conde
In the gloaming, Eskdalemuir, Scotland on 19th April 2022 – by Geoff McQueen
Creaky trees at Rannoch Moor, Scottish Highlands, Scotland on 23rd April 2022 – by Steve Urquhart
Stream in a forest glade, Ambleside, Cumbria, UK in April 2022 – by Geoff Marsh
Rain on the sea, Camber Sands, East Sussex, UK on 23rd May 2022 – by Sam Clements and Louise Owen
Parsley frogs at night, Lérouville, Lorraine, France on 5th June 2022 – by Colin Hunter
Lake swim at sunrise, the morning after midsummer, Groß Köris, Germany in June 2022 – by Eleanor McDowall
Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn, NY, USA in June 2022 – by James T. Green
Bells on sheep, east of Rome around 7pm on 26th June – by Cosmin Sandu
Pondweed bubbles, Raglan Castle moat, Wales, UK in the afternoon on 16th July 2022 – by Paul Ridout
Sitting in the dark, by the fan, reading and writing emails, London, UK on 19th July 2022 – by Siddharth Khajuria
8pm, rural village garden, Suffolk, UK on 19th July 2022 – by Melissa Harrison
Takapou Bay, South Island, New Zealand in August 2022 – by Martin Zaltz Austwick
Katydids in the moonlight, Bearsville, New York, USA on 20th August 2022 – by Joe Dobkin
Cow chorus in the middle of the road, near Te Kao, New Zealand on 30th August 2022 – by Helen Zaltzman
Thunderstorm through skylight, London, UK at 11.20pm on 5th September 2022 – by Eleanor McDowall
Muffled Bells, Cuddington, Buckinghamshire, UK on 19th September 2022 – by Paul Ridout
Binaural bells, St Pauls Cathedral, London, UK on 19th September 2022 – by Joe Harvey-Whyte
Enough is Enough National Day of Action, Outside Kings Cross Station, London, UK on 1st October 2022
Dusk chorus, Ewingar, New South Wales, Australia on 16th October 2022 – by Jaye Kranz
Heavy rain, North West London, UK in October 2022 – by Alex Micu
Winter Bees, Flitwick, Bedfordshire, UK in November 2022 – by Julian Higgs
Westminster Bridge, London, UK on 5th November 2022
Woman, life, freedom, Iran solidarity protest in Trafalgar Square, London, UK on 26th November 2022
Inside the bell tower, All Hallows, Twickenham on the morning of 16th November 2022 – by Alan Hall
Koliada singers rehearsing for the Christmas season, Le Plateau-Mont-Royal, Montreal, Québec, Canada on 30th November 2022 – by Mira Burt-Wintonick
Bells (church and cow) in the hills of Flüeli-Ranft, Switzerland in the evening of 6th December 2022 – by Charlie Shackleton
Crackling fire and chimes, London, UK on 9th December 2022 – by Eleanor McDowall
Snow falling on the canal, London, UK, near midnight on Sunday 11th December 2022 – by Eleanor McDowall