Sound mosaics for a broken world

By Adrian Newton

Our world is breaking. Ecosystems are collapsing, our house is burning. But we can fix it like a mosaic, sticking it back together piece by piece. Here's a soundtrack for the recovery process, incorpo... more

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February 22, 2026 Blanc Sceol
An interview with the environmental sound artists Blanc Sceol (Stephen Shiell and Hannah White), who work on the boundaries between sound, listening and performance, while fostering a reciprocal relationship with ecological communities. Their compositions, interventions and performances are strongly grounded in their sense of place, an an awareness of how human impacts are shaping environments. Much of their recent work has focused on rivers, especially the Channelsea river in central London. Further details at https://www.blancsceol.co.uk/

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January 20, 2026 Ecopoetry 2: learning to become ecopoets
Ecopoetry offers the possibility of writing creatively about the environment, and strengthening our connection with it. But what is ecopoetry? And more importantly, how might one create it? This show documents the beginning of our journey to learn how to become ecopoets, and the obstacles we encountered along the way - as well as the fun we had. Many thanks to Helen Moore of Wild Ways to Writing for so patiently guiding us while we took our first steps.
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December 03, 2025 Ecopoetry 1: Waterdrop and river / run
Field recordings of a launch event for Waterdrop and river / run, two collaborative ecopoetry books focusing on rivers. With readings from poets Clare Whistler, Kay Syrad and Helen Moore, hosted at The Watershed, Dorset, UK. This is a an ecologically designed experimental station for climate-focused residencies, and the HQ of Cape Farewell. The Watershed lies on the Sydling Water, which can be heard in these recordings.
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November 10, 2025 Kankyō ongaku
“Kankyō ongaku” is Japanese for “environmental music,” but also refers to a genre of electronic ambient music that developed in Japan in the 1980s. Field recordings were typically blended with minimalist melodies performed with synthesizers of the time. The music has its roots in the ambient music of Brian Eno, and the furniture music of Erik Satie, but has its own distinctive Japanese sensibility and aesthetic. This sound mosaic was produced as a tribute to this form of music, and was composed using similar approaches, blending field recordings collected in Japan with generative sequences performed on 1980s synthesizers, which were subjected to a number of randomisation procedures. With thanks to Spencer Doran, who has helped spread the word about this form of music, and how it is produced.
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September 24, 2025 Medway tales: entangled human and other-than-human voices
‘Medway tales: entangled human and other-than-human voices’ was co-created by sound artist Adrian Newton in collaboration with More-Than-Human researchers Valerie Nelson and Victoria Leslie, together with the River Medway and its pilgrims. Many thanks also to Toby Edwards for Medway recordings.
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August 25, 2025 The museum of failure
'The museum of failure' is a term that has been used to describe the accumulation of old vinyl records in charity shops. Strangely, wherever you are in the world, these abandoned records seem to be the same ones. This phenomenon raises questions about the cultural value of physical media, whether vinyl, cassettes or CDs. Further questions relate to the environmental impact of the dissemination of music, either as physical media or via the internet. Answers to these questions are explored through a visit to the museum of failure.
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August 09, 2025 Pyrenean soundscape
A mosaic of sounds recorded in the French Pyrenees, focusing on the species that live in the beech forests, rivers and meadows of this beautiful landscape. Can you hear the sounds of environmental change?
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June 30, 2025 Listening through waste
Featuring the work of environmental sound artist Chris Sciacca, who has recently been exploring the issue of e-waste using some innovative listening approaches. These include listening to waste processing facilities using microphones made from scrap materials, which have provided new insights into how these processes are affecting ecosystems.
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June 09, 2025 And the birds cry out
Around 1400 of the world's bird species are now threatened with extinction, mostly because of human activities. This show features a recording of a sound installation created in 2024, incorporating calls and songs of some of the world's threatened birds. The installation was designed such that the bird sounds were modulated by the presence of people, providing a metaphor for human impacts on the environment. The original sounds were obtained from Xeno-Canto.org, whose contributions are gratefully acknowledged.
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June 03, 2025 Into the Archive
A radio play, profiling the archive of previous works produced by Wimborne Community Theatre.
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