Attenborough at 100: The Wild Life of Sound
On Sir David Attenborough's 100th birthday, Verity Sharp presents a collaborative mixtape celebrating interspecies connection from artist Rebecca Lennon and writer Ella Finer.
On Sir David Attenborough's 100th birthday, Verity Sharp presents a mixtape that celebrates the ways in which recorded sound and acts of listening-imagining can bring us into a close relationship with other species. Assembled as a collaboration between artist and researcher Rebecca Lennon and writer Ella Finer, the mixtape moves through musical and sonic worlds that variously abstract, reimagine and commune with human and more than human presences. Breath, vibration, rhythm, waggle - we meet the heartbeat of a swan, the voice of a whale, the purr of a cheetah, the sonorous lives of bees, foxes and street dogs. Finer鈥檚 concept of 鈥渢he wild life of sound鈥� speaks to something that the sonic and the creaturely realms share in common: a freedom from ownership, a resistance to neat categorisation, a space where connection can happen.
Produced by Alex Yates
A Reduced Listening production for 麻豆社 Radio 3
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Rachel Musson
Rachel Musson Duets With A Nightingale
- Rachel Musson Duets With A Nightingale.
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Hannah Peel & Beibei Wang
Awaken the Insects
- The Endless Dance.
- Real World.
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Himba people of Namibia
Lion Attack, Cattle Massacre
- Himba Hymn: Ghosts Of Namibia's Skeleton Coast.
- Sublime Frequencies.
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Laura Cocks
A Marsh Wren
- FATHM.
- Out Of Your Head Records.
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eRikm & Pierre Bastien
Observation #1
- Observation #1.
- Sub Rosa.
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Blair Coron
Ode to the Cimmerian
- On the Nature of Things.
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Dario Caldarone, Aurelie Nyrabikali, Naomi Sato & Gareth Davis
The Infinite Garden (preview)
- The Infinite Garden.
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Robert Wyatt
Pigs...(in There)
- EPs.
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Chris Watson
Adult Cheetah
- Outside the Circle of Fire.
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Cevdet Erek
Drums Barking
- HOPE.
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Laura Cannell
Composition with birds, Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park
- Composition with birds, Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park.
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Richard Ridgway
Mute Swan Heartbeat
- Mute Swan Heartbeat.
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Annea Lockwood
World Rhythms
- World Rhythms.
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Cevdet Erek
Barking Drums
- Barking Drums.
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Ann McMillan
Whale-Wail, In Peace, En Paix: For Voice and Tape Structures of Whale and Other
- Whale-Wail, In Peace, En Paix: For Voice and Tape Structures of Whale and Other.
- Folkways Records.
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Rebecca Lennon
Face to Face
- Paint your lips while singing your favourite pop song.
- Flaming Pines.
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Kate Carr
A Field Guide to Phantasmic Birds
- A Field Guide to Phantasmic Birds.
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Mira Calix
Nunu
- 3 Commissions.
- Warp Records.
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Jana Winderen
Spring Bloom in the Marginal Ice Zone
- Spring Bloom in the Marginal Ice Zone.
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Rebecca Lennon
Waggledance
- Waggledance.
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Ella Finer & Fiora
I want to know you by touch (mars quakes)
- A voice over for Fireflies.
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Fiora
Men Talking About Birds
- Men Talking About Birds.
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Raven Chacon
Aviary
- Aviary.
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Laura Cannell
Composition with birds, Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park
- Composition with birds, Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park.
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Rebecca Lennon
Fox Heartbeat
- Recorded at Pumpkins Sanctuary.
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Hermeto Pascoal
Papagaio Alegre
- Lagoa da Canoa Munic铆pio de Arapiraca.
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Guests
Common Domestic Bird
- Common Domestic Bird.
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T. Wolf
kristian caves
- there is no english folklore/the winning hat.
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Ann DuHamel
frostbYte: chalk outline (by Daniel Blinkhorn)
- Prayers for a Feverish Planet: New Music about Climate Change Vol 1.
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Karine Polwart
The Lost Words Blessing
- The Lost Words Blessing.
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Yoichi Kamimura
Amazon
- Waterforest.
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Ian Mcdonald & Michael Giles
Flight of the Ibis
- McDonald & Giles.
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