Sounds of our Shores

Produced by Martyn Ware (founder member of Human League and Heaven 17) this is an edited version of the full 'Sea Inside Us All' soundscape (which includes Gabriel Ware’s beautiful orchestral compositions). Martyn used some of the 'sounds of our shores' (a collaboration between the National Trust, British Library and National Trust for Scotland) uploaded by members of the public during the summer of 2015 to create this cinema for the mind. You can download the full version of the soundscape for free via: https://soundcloud.com/martynware/sea-inside-us-all-020316 You can visit the sound map via http://www.bl.uk/sounds-of-our-shores #shoresounds

This coastal soundscape by Martyn Ware is cinema for the mind. Using sounds submitted as part of the 'sounds of our shore' project in 2015 (a partnership between the National Trust, British Library and National Trust for Scotland - http://www.bl.uk/sounds-of-our-shores) Martyn has created a rich sonic journey around the 10,800 miles of the UK coastline #shoresounds. The soundscape includes Gabriel Ware’s beautiful orchestral compositions. You can download the soundscape for free via: https://soundcloud.com/martynware/sea-inside-us-all-020316 The full running order of sounds that feature is: 0.01 introduction 0.15 clifftop and waves 2.41 music/ punch and judy 4.09 music /description of childhood sounds 5.11 beach fun/music/blackpool 7.38 amusements 7.59 fishing village 10.47 equipment clunking 11.43 rain starts/wind/bells/ sirens/thunder/ghost train/ 17.44 boat engines/gulls 20.18 waves/shingle/gulls/wind 23.21 seaside steam train 25.11 fishermen singing in wind 27.11 crickets/on board creaking moored boat/sploshing 28.33 caledonian ferry 29.35 music/heavy waves at sea 30.45 music/ kids screaming 31.43 airshow 32.21 walk on shingle beach 32.51 distant waves/bird watcher 33.52 fisherman describes fish types 35.19 birds and rockpools 39.14 lifeguard 40.11 birds/waves/shingle beach/rain 42.34 walking on shingle/seaside competition 44.32 waves/fiddle palying 45.29 cornish folk singing on boat 46.26 pebble beach/throwing pebbles/quiet time 47.54 distant waves/birds/rockpool 50.04 cream tea/café 51.52 music/describing seaweeds 53.43 music/dramatic waves 54.14 dramatic seascape/music 54.4 weather forecast for sailors fastpoint 56.38 clunking ghost train 57.47 amusements 1.00.01 boat trip bird watching 1.01.40 calm sea at night shingle beach 1.05.35 family at seaside/steam train passing 1.09.11 morris dancers 1.10.20 heavy waves at night 1.12.30 …with music 1.14.38 flyby at seaside - airshow 1.15.38 music/close waves 1.20.06 2nd music piece/baby singing/family on beach 1.21.10 outro/ coda

Messing around on a 1950s Eddystone radio in the Lizard Wireless Station, where Marconi received the first ship-to-shore SOS radio signal in 1901. Enjoying the synth-like bleeps, whirrs and sweeps, burbling rhythms, gritty static, and robotic-sounding snippets of German radio. #shoresounds

Walking down the last bit of the hill to the shoreline at Church Cove. Recorded in surround sound - big waterfalls on the left and right hand side, with the crashing sea directly ahead (envelops you when listening on headphones) #shoresounds.

Wind and waves on the small rocky beach at Housel Bay Cove, near high tide in the evening. #shoresounds

Serpentine rock - found exclusively here in all of England - is turned on a lathe by PL Casley & Son, who work the dark green mottled rock (that possibly gave Lizard its name) into a variety of ornaments. You can hear the rhythm morph as a rough block of rock gets gradually smoother, and then the cycle starts again when he moves on to the next section of the rock. #shoresounds

A brief clip of Keith Matthew of the Marconi Centre, Poldhu, Cornwall, scanning the airwaves using a mast on the same spot as the one Guglielmo Marconi used to transmit the first radio signal across the Atlantic in 1912. Nice towards the end as a slow morse signal merges with an Italian radio voice. #shoresounds

Ducking behind a stone wall to escape the wind, and stumbling across this grasshopper at the edge of a field near Caerthillian Cove - recorded from a few inches away. The distant seabird's rhythm syncopates nicely. #shoresounds

The wind before the storm, whistling through the grass outside the Lizard Wireless Station, Cornwall, at 2am. #shoresounds

A heavy storm rattles Marconi's radio huts - recorded from inside with the windows shut, unable to sleep through it in the middle of the night. #shoresounds

Three blasts (bleeps) at 30-second intervals, of the new electronic fog horn at Lizard Lighthouse, Cornwall - recorded from outside the Lizard Wireless Station half a mile away, in the evening rain. Nice reverberation of the tone around the coastline. #shoresounds

A tinkling stream, a little inland from Caerthillian Cove on the Lizard Peninsula. #shoresounds

National Coastwatch Institution volunteer Tony Pickett broadcasts the weather forecast from Bass Point NCI watchpoint in a force 5 wind. #shoresounds

A close-up recording of a wave coming crashing up through the rocks at Housel Bay Cove, and slowly trickling away again. #shoresounds

Lizard Wireless Station volunteer John Davies taps out morse code in Marconi's old radio hut (with the spark-gap system turned off). #shoresounds

Recorded Aug 2015 by ChangingViews ltd. Beagle's Point, Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall

Recorded Aug 2015 by ChangingViews ltd. Bream Cove, Mawnan Smith, Cornwall.

Recorded Aug 2015 by ChangingViews ltd. Burnock's Cove, Lizard Peninsula Cornwall

Recorded Aug 2015 by ChangingViews ltd. Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall. #shoresounds

Recorded Aug 2015 by ChangingViews ltd. nr Kuggar village, Lizard peninsula, Cornwall. #shoresounds