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George's Pond (clear) 03:12
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Overnight Rain 03:40
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George's Pond (duckweed and algae) 04:04
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Sonification 1 00:44
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The Way Water Falls Pt.1 04:33
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Sonification 2 01:08
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The Way Water Falls Pt.2 04:45
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Sonification 3 03:08
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This collection of audio pieces were collected and composed during the turning months, from winter to spring 2024. They illustrate various audible phenomena that’s found along the Midford Brook, and its various connecting blue spaces. The pieces consist of field recordings and synthesised sonifications, sometimes mixed and sometimes separate.

The field recordings capture life and movement, from perspectives not usually available to human hearing (with underwater microphones and sound processing techniques), whilst the sonifications use environmental data about water pollution to control and modulate synthesisers.

Some of the pieces are presented alongside interpretive texts which attempt to capture my thoughts at the time of recording, and also go some way to explaining the natural processes which inspired those
particular recordings.




George’s Pond Thursday 21st March 2024

I stood by one of George’s ponds for over an hour.
The day before, I had listened to the clearer pond
and noticed palmate newts and the throttle of a frog
with no known origin.

Today though, in the other pond
I listened to the immediate surface layer of duckweed and algae.
Gas released by photosynthesis,
Creaks, bursts, fizzed release, new life heard as natural decompression.

The sound behaved according to sunlight
and built in abundance with unobscured heat.
With this in mind,
I realised I could now hear the clouds passing over me.




Overnight Rain Tuesday 2nd April 2024

These used to excite me,
Waterfalls formed overnight in place of tiny inland cliffs.
I’d take it as a sign that I’d slept well
and missed the overnight rain.

Using the slope of the land to find larger masses,
the cascading water is a link between nature and mindfulness,
White noise.

The noise is swallowed by the Midford Brook,
Swallowed with no consideration for what may be within the liquid sound.
What may have washed off the land,
By the overnight rain.




The Way Water Falls Pt. 1 No Date

The way water falls,
touches the land differently at each point.
Different formations of mud and stone
make this tributary sing in multiple textured resonances.
Whilst the water falls.




The Way Water Falls Pt. 2 No Date

The way water falls,
makes a small pool that slows the flow.
The lower frequencies are lost
and the water falls more like rain.
High in pitch and thick with noise,
before it journeys to an underground pipe
where its energy resonates a low drone.
A polluted chord.

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released April 12, 2024

Recording and Composing- Harry Ovington

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Harry Ovington is a Manchester Based Composer and Sound Artist focussing on connecting the natural environment to sound and raising ecological awareness.

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