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Hurricane Milton came across Florida to Melbourne Beach at around 1:30 am on the 6th of October 2024

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The early hours in Melbourne beach of hurricane Milton that ravaged Florida from the west cost.

Incredible thunderstorm and heavy rain. take a look at the listening planet on Spotify or your favourite media player. Find us at www.thelisteningplanet.com

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Featuring:

Chorus Frog, Winter Wren, Nightingale Wren, Humans, Yellow Rumped Warbler, Trumpeter Swan, Woodpecker Drumming, Sandhill Crane, Sharpbil, Cane Toad, Striped Breasted Wren

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LOVED & LOST is a heartfelt tribute to the beauty of our natural world and a poignant reflection on its fragility and potential degradation. Each track is a narrative, echoing the intricate connections within ecosystems, the delicate balance that sustains them plus a subtle, yet powerful commentary on the looming threats of environmental degradation and climate change.

This album is ultimately a love letter, but one that also expresses profound grief. Nature is our greatest healer, and she urgently needs our love to be restored to health.

We released this album in August featuring Peter Hall.

Peter explains what nature means to him.

“‘As an artist deeply inspired by the natural world, I felt compelled to create something that not only celebrates its splendor but also underscores the pressing issues it faces.

My goal was to create a sound that highlighted the profound connection between humanity and nature, and a reminder of our collective responsibility to safeguard it for future generations.

The project is also about love, loss and grief. I’ve experienced a lot of that in my life, so has everyone. It’s a very human experience. But, it’s also how I feel about what’s going on in the natural world. We’ve spent hundreds and hundreds of years ‘othering it’, making it so disconnected from ourselves that we can abuse it, because if we truly understood how nature is actually also ‘us’ and how interconnected we are, we wouldn’t be able to abuse it in the way that we do. By linking nature with the very ‘human’ experience of grief and loss. I’m attempting to bridge that gap between ourselves and the natural world. We are one.

I feel a deep sadness… something I love is hurting and grief is just the other side of that love. I understand that denial is a brilliant coping mechanism for us all, but I don’t want to ignore what is happening in front of me.

Nature was always there. We didn’t have to do anything. We just had to respect it. In putting together this project, I wanted to reignite our connection with nature through the universal experience of love and loss.’

The album is released through our “Biophonica label and can be found here.

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Sound is the barometer of the health of the planet.”

This Sunday on BBC Radio 4, musician and sound artist Alice Boyd retraces the steps of legendary field recordist Martyn Stewart, capturing the changing sounds of our environments. (The Listening Planet) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0020xm2

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In the dense Costa Rican rainforest, where the air is thick with humidity and the foliage rustles with life, there exists a symphony unlike any other. It is the song of the emerald cicada, a boisterous melody that dominates the auditory landscape with its sheer intensity.

Imagine standing amidst the towering trees, surrounded by a chorus of chirps and clicks. But amidst this cacophony, there emerges a sound so loud, so piercing, that it drowns out all else. It is the call of the emerald cicada, resonating at a deafening 100 decibels, powerful enough to silence even the most raucous of jungle sounds.

Close your eyes and listen. The sound begins as a faint hum, barely audible amidst the rustling leaves and distant calls of other creatures. But as it crescendos, it swells into a thunderous roar, reverberating through the forest with unyielding force.

The males are the architects of this symphony, their bodies vibrating with the effort of producing such a deafening sound. With each pulse, they emit a series of rapid clicks, each one building upon the last until it forms a continuous, pulsating rhythm.

And yet, amidst the chaos of their song, there exists a strange beauty. Picture the emerald cicada, its wings shimmering in the dappled sunlight, a mesmerizing display of iridescence against the lush greenery of the forest.

But beware, for the power of their song is not to be underestimated. To stand too close is to risk permanent hearing damage, the relentless barrage of sound threatening to overwhelm even the most resilient of eardrums.

And so, amidst the verdant expanse of Costa Rica's rainforest, the emerald cicada reigns supreme, its song echoing through the trees like a thunderous symphony of nature's own creation.

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This series aims to take listeners on an epic and intimate journey through the natural world, all through the medium of sound and at the same time we want to enable a rare glimpse into the life of a man who recorded everything you’re about to hear, one sound at a time.

Martyn Stewart has spent his lifetime on a mission: to record the natural sounds of our planet. It’s a story that will take us from a council estate in Birmingham England and ultimately take him to every corner of the planet. From Belize to the Arctic Wildlife Refuge, from Denali to the Galapagos, to some of the most inhospitable locations geographically and politically. He will be attacked by lions and crocodiles, arrested in Japan for filming the annual dolphin slaughter and then find himself in long periods of isolation, in remote corners of the world waiting for 30 seconds of a that perfect sound. This is ultimately a love story – dedicated to our natural world and to the people who spend their lives aiming to give it a voice.

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In nature's dance, a timeless rhyme,

No wars conceived, no famine's grime.

Mother Nature weaves a gentle song,

Where harmony reigns, and peace belongs.

Animals roam in instinct's grace,

No destructive footprints to erase.

They coexist, a balanced chore,

Unlike the chaos mankind may implore.

A symphony of life in every tree,

No battles fought for territory.

The rivers flow with a tranquil ease,

A stark contrast to man's unease.

Man, with the power to create,

Yet often wields it with darker fate.

In nature's arms, a lesson found,

To nurture, not destroy, on sacred ground.

So let us learn from nature's lore,

Embrace the love that life implores.

In the tapestry of Earth's grand art,

Find the peace that lies in every heart

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What language can we learn to better understand?

French, Italian, Spanish? What about German?…..

Well certainly, it is beneficial to communicate in these languages while in these countries but what language can we learn to benefit everybody?

I’ll give you a clue!

The Language of the planet.

Imagine…if you could lay bare the whole acoustical spectrum of the natural world…

in all its wonder…

To hear the simple flow of water babbling down a stream and the song of the skylark as it takes flight. To witness the oceans dawn chorus and the song of a humpback whale as it begins its dance or the hiss of cicadas drifting on waves of heat-humid air.

To feel the world come alive, to relearn a language critical to our understanding of the world around us.. and to see that our acoustic planet is not simply a random and orderless cacophony, but a palpable ecological dimension of life on earth.

The sounds of nature have long been associated with mental wellbeing, allowing our imagination to linger on what we hear, transporting us… but they also reveal the densities and intricacies of life – its health and fragility.  Sound can also echo a disappearing world, a sonic landscape undergoing an extinction event of its own – one that is, with painful irony, happening silently.

We want to bring NATURE’S VOICE to the world in a way that it has never been felt or experienced before. ..to connect hearts with minds, knowledge with action and to ignite a passion to safeguard its future.

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