Lockdown-2 has ended, and this stage of the work is complete.
You can find the work together here as a playlist or at https://martinpeccles.com/other-sound-works/a-walk-round-contencion-island/
A video of the maps is here – https://youtu.be/wQyWSlwLn-s
Wednesday December 2nd, 09:28 – 09:31
308.6o to 321.4o
Wind SW 3 (gusting 5), T 7C (feels like 4C), 75% cloud cover
Crows and pigeons stand watch sentinels in the tree tops postman nods hello “that’ll be int’restin” blares the man at his phone as he wheels his bike
Tuesday December 1st, 10:53 – 10:56
192.9o to 250.7o
Wind W 2 (gusting 4), T 3C (feels like 0C), 37% cloud cover
Walking through rank grass I’m wet from mid-calf down morning dew still heavy One lark’s rise is joined by two two more a quintet they circle away
Monday November 30th, 07:49 – 07:52
244.3o to 257.1o
Wind WSW 4 (gusting 6), T 8C (feels like 5C), 62% cloud cover
The wren materialises only when it is still in the emerging dawn The morning commute at the bus stop two masked schoolboys study their phones
Sunday November 29th, 08:56 – 08:59
25.7o to 38.6o
Wind W 1 (gusting 3), T 6C (feels like 6C), 100% cloud cover
Five blackbirds flow into through up and over hedge porch roof ridge gone Front gardens used as carparks or vegetable plots a dunnock sings Grey-cowled and white-eyed the jackdaws strut the pavement the mist is lifting
Saturday November 28th, 10:03 – 10:09
77.1o to 90.0o
Wind NW 1 (gusting 2), T 1C (feels like 0C), 50% cloud cover
Two mallards scoot out from the laurel stop and preen looking over a bridge Water frozen in the butt frost crisps the grass and whitens winter stalks Synchronized clatter of sticks sword dancers or perhaps a martial art
Friday November 27th, 07:25 – 07:41
51.4o to 62.3o
Wind SW 1 (gusting 2), T 2C (feels like 2C), 75% cloud cover
The blackbird watches as I approach then flies lost into the dawn The jackdaw mob hangs at the dark end of the street crotchet dots on ariels Crossing the dene where blackcap sang to chiffchaff’s call memories of May
Thursday November 26th, 09:40 – 09:52
295.7o to 308.6o
Wind W 2 (gusting 3), T 6C (feels like 6C), 62% cloud cover
White-barred wings flash as finches flick bounce pause fly along the alleyway A blackbird trilogy chacked claims each to their own crab apple larder
Wednesday November 25th, 09:24 – 09:36
38.6o to 51.4o
Wind W 2 (gusting 4), T 7C (feels like 7C), 37% cloud cover
Pressed by hard and loud on churchyard grass my pace slows I breath more slowly I follow a desire path round the churchyard edge metros trundle past Blackbirds abound foraging in the ivy the back of the churchyard Two war graves I hadn’t noticed before sandstone rather than marble
Tuesday November 24th, 09:36 – 09:40
000.0o to 12.9o
Wind SSW 4 (gusting 6), T 11C (feels like 11C), 62% cloud cover
The shivering rustle of the beech hedge a garden-edge copper wall Sparrows chirp in the holly games field shrieks scatter below calls of gulls
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