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The HomeSounds Show

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The HomeSounds Show invites everyone to become active environmental listeners for the benefit of their creativity, education, health and well-being. HomeSounds creator Martin Scaiff and naturalist and educator Rob Coleman soundwalk together sharing sounds they discover, their experiences, those of participants of the HomeSounds project, and the ideas of sound-recordists, scientists, artists, young people and anyone else interested in how our acoustic habitats shape us, and our world. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-homesounds-show--5490625/support.

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Episodes

  1. East Norfolk Coast - LIttle Terns

    Welcome Home Everybody! In this episode, Rob, myself and our Sidestrand School group head to the East Norfolk Coast. Keeping the exact location secret for conservation reasons, and in spite of the car park pay machine doing its level best to prevent anyone from spending anytime there, we gathered...

  2. Sheringham Park and Beeston Common - Frogs, Toads and Newts

    Welcome Home Everybody! In this episode, Rob leads us on a hunt for Frogs and their copper-eyed cousins Toads. We started with a careful walk through the woods at Sheringham Park, dodging the toads crossing our path that were making safe passage to the ponds where they lay their spawn. Rob tells…

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  3. Ipswich - Seconds of Sound at Suffolk Libraries

    Welcome Home Everybody! In 2024 I was privileged and delighted to be appointed ‘Environmentalist in Residence’ for Suffolk Libraries, an independent charity running the public library service for the county of Suffolk in the UK. For this residency I created a project titled ‘Seconds of Sound’...

  4. Sheringham and Felbrigg - Soils and Plants

    Welcome Home Everybody! A few weeks ago I managed to get my hands on a new microphone developed by the field recordist and sound artist Jez Riley French. The ecoutic is an adapted version of Jez’s popular c-series contact microphone. Short or long metal probes attach to the original c-series...

  5. West Runton and Happisburgh - Sounds of Coastal Erosion

    Welcome Home Everybody! In this episode I, along with Sue Grime from North Norfolk District Council’s Coastwise project, take our Sidestrand school group on a trip to West Runton beach. West Runton forms part of the Deep History Coast, a 22 mile section of North Norfolk shoreline famously home,...

  6. Fields of North Norfolk - March Hares

    Welcome home everybody! In this episode, Rob led our Sidestrand school group on a hunt for Hares across the North Norfolk Countryside. Using the school minibus as a mobile hide, we scampered down country lanes, and pitched in opportune parking spots when we either came across suitable hare...

  7. Across A Distance - Ximena Alarcon (Part 2)

    Welcome Home Everybody! In this episode, the second of two which have been created as part of HomeSounds ‘Lessons from Listening’ series, Martin talks with Ximena Alarcon, a sound artist-researcher interested in listening and sounding human sonic migrations, and experiencing the resonances left…

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  8. Across A Distance - Ximena Alarcon (Part 1)

    Welcome Home Everybody! In this episode, the first of two which have been created as part of HomeSounds ‘Lessons from Listening’ series, Martin talks with Ximena Alarcon, a sound artist-researcher interested in listening and sounding human sonic migrations, and experiencing the resonances left in...

  9. Sheringham Park - Birds Round The Feeder

    Welcome Home Everybody! In this episode Rob and I have invited our group of young people from Sidestrand School to Sheringham Park. A regular venue for us, we make the education centre at the park our base for today’s adventures. On this trip we’re hoping to be able to watch, listen to and learn...

  10. Blakeney Point - Experience

    Welcome home everybody! In this episode Rob and I lead our Sidestrand School group on a walk along the shingle and sand dunes of Blakeney Point, a spit of land on the North Norfolk Coast that is incrementally lost to the sea as it rolls out for 4 miles. The point is a national nature reserve...

  11. Felbrigg - Mushroom Bio-Sonification

    Welcome home everybody, and welcome to The HomeSounds Show! In this episode, Rob and I are looking for mushrooms, not only because of their incredible variety and fascinating history as possibly the first life forms on planet earth, but also because of the potential, made possible by...

  12. Arctic - Michael Stocker (Part 2)

    Welcome Home Everybody! In this episode, the second of two parts, Martin continues his interview with acoustician and naturalist Michael Stocker. Drawing inspiration from Michael's wonderfully free-ranging and rich book, Hear Where We Are, the conversation, and accompanying audio extracts…

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  13. Arctic - Michael Stocker (Part 1)

    Welcome Home Everybody! In this episode, the first of two parts, Martin interviews acoustician and naturalist Michael Stocker. Drawing inspiration from Michael's wonderfully free-ranging and rich book, Hear Where We Are, the conversation, and accompanying audio extracts, explore the myriad themes...

  14. Weybourne Heath - Nightjar

    Welcome Home Everybody! In this episode, recorded in the late summer of 2020, Rob and I visit a section of Weybourne Heath on the North Norfolk Coast here in the UK, in search of a bird the song of which is matched only by its appearance and character in exciting the imagination. An African...

  15. Sheringham Park - Rhodie-bashing and Bio-sonification

    Welcome Home Everybody! The HomeSounds project began working with the National Trust in the autumn of 2022 through its Riverlands project and has installed two live-streaming microphones at their Felbrigg and Blickling Estates. Running Alongside these installations are a series of educational...

  16. Incleborough Hill - Gorse Hatchers and Devils Guts

    Welcome Home Everybody! The HomeSounds project began working with the National Trust in the autumn of 2022 through its Riverlands project and has installed two live-streaming microphones at their Felbrigg and Blickling Estates. Running Alongside these installations are a series of educational...

  17. Felbrigg - Scarrowbeck Stream

    Welcome Home Everybody! The HomeSounds project began working with the National Trust in the autumn of 2022 through its Riverlands project and has installed two live-streaming microphones at their Felbrigg and Blickling Estates. Running Alongside these installations are a series of educational...

  18. Felbrigg - Chiff Chaff and Blackcap

    Welcome Home Everybody! The HomeSounds project began working with the National Trust in the autumn of 2022 through its Riverlands project and has installed two live-streaming microphones at their Felbrigg and Blickling Estates. Running Alongside these installations are a series of educational...

  19. Wheatfen - Jesse Barrett

    Welcome Home Everybody! HomeSounds creator Martin Scaiff is joined by exquisite musician and friend Jesse Barrett. Together they attempt to discuss and demonstrate something of the role acoustic habitats play in shaping our creativity. They also fall in a big hole, try to start a rumour about a...

  20. Morston Marsh - Curlew, Red Shank and Oyster Catcher

    Welcome Home Everybody! The HomeSounds project began working with the National Trust in the autumn of 2022 through its Riverlands project and has installed two live-streaming microphones at their Felbrigg and Blickling Estates. Running Alongside these installations are a series of educational...

  21. Sheringham Park - Woodpeckers

    Welcome Home Everybody! The HomeSounds project began working with the National Trust in the autumn of 2022 through its Riverlands project and has installed two live-streaming microphones at their Felbrigg and Blickling Estates. Running Alongside these installations are a series of educational...

  22. Horsey - Seals

    Welcome Home Everybody! The HomeSounds project began working with the National Trust in the autumn of 2022 through its Riverlands project and has installed two live-streaming microphones at their Felbrigg and Blickling Estates. Running Alongside these installations are a series of educational...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

The HomeSounds Show invites everyone to become active environmental listeners for the benefit of their creativity, education, health and well-being.

HomeSounds creator Martin Scaiff and naturalist and educator Rob Coleman soundwalk together sharing sounds they discover, their experiences, those of participants of the HomeSounds project, and the ideas of sound-recordists, scientists, artists, young people and anyone else interested in how our acoustic habitats shape us, and our world.

Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-homesounds-show--5490625/support.

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The HomeSounds Show invites everyone to become active environmental listeners for the benefit of their creativity, education, health and well-being. HomeSounds creator Martin Scaiff and naturalist and educator Rob Coleman soundwalk together sharing sounds they discover, their experiences, those of...

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