EPISODE · Dec 8, 2025 · 10 MIN
Holbrook Garden, Christmas Day Morning 2024
from Listening to the Landscape: Holbrook · host Matthew Shenton
This recording was made on the morning of Christmas Day 2024 in a residential village garden at around 11am. I had wondered if the soundscape would be different on Christmas Day; quieter perhaps? The usual songbirds are captured in full flow, but background traffic can still be heard and planes are still travelling across the sky, so perhaps this recording is not much different to any other made at the same time on any other day of the year. What, if anything, does this say anything about modern village life in the 21st century?
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This recording was made on the morning of Christmas Day 2024 in a residential village garden at around 11am. I had wondered if the soundscape would be different on Christmas Day; quieter perhaps? The usual songbirds are captured in full flow, but background traffic can still be heard and planes are still travelling across the sky, so perhaps this recording is not much different to any other made at the same time on any other day of the year. What, if anything, does this say anything about modern village life in the 21st century?
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