UKH

Fascinating & beautiful sounds, with nicely paced commentaries, from Antarctica, Skellig Michael, the Finnish taiga, Northumberland & Iceland (5x15mins)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001146b

The Great White Silence - Episode 1 of 5

For many of us, isolation is disconcerting and challenging, but for wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson, it is something he actively seeks, so he can fully immerse himself in a place and capture its unique sounds in his recordings.

In the first of five illustrated essays, Chris recalls a trip to Antarctica, to a landscape which has been described as ‘The Great White Silence’ to record one of the greatest transitional events on the planet; the sounds of a glacier being transformed over the Antarctic summer from a solid mountain of freshwater ice into the salt water of the Ross Sea.
 

Oh nice, will look that up. Chris Watson has done some fascinating stuff, I did a bit of a catch-up recently prompted by the death of his old Cabaret Voltaire band mate Richard Kirk. You might like this  youtube.com/watch?v=fDQZTXz2-7o&

Thanks very much for that – really enjoyed it. Good to see that it got so many positive reviews, too. I didn't realise that he’d released so much or created sound installations in natural settings - brilliant! Sad to learn about Richard Kirk (relatively young, too)