September 20, 2023 • 30 mins
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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 fish-man-creature of the broads and spot a heron.
After walking and recording at Wheatfen they retire to Jesse’s self-built studio-come-motorcycle workshop to improvise a piece of sound inspired by the morning.
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Wheatfen Nature Reserve
Vibhaas
Homesounds
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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 fish-man-creature of the broads and spot a heron.
After walking and recording at Wheatfen they retire to Jesse’s self-built studio-come-motorcycle workshop to improvise a piece of sound inspired by the morning.
LINKS
Wheatfen Nature Reserve
Vibhaas
Homesounds
HomeSounds Show Supporters Club
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Episode Transcript
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(00:39):
Welcome home, everybody, and welcometo the fourth episode of the Home Sounds
Show. My name is Martin andI'm a field recordistant teacher. I'm the
creator of the Homesounds Project and yourco host for the show along with Rob.
Hello everybody. My name is Roband I'm an educator and naturalist.
I work for the National Trust atSheringham Park in Norfolk as part of their
(01:00):
Children and Young People Hub. Thismonth we are offering you something different.
In March twenty twenty one, Iwent on a sound walk at whak Fend
Nature Reserve with the musician Jesse Barrett. Our aim was to tune into the
acoustic habitat of this unique nature reservein the heart of the Norfolk Broads,
and from this inspiration creates an improvisedpiece of music that blends environmental sound,
(01:26):
live instruments and electronically created sound.During our walk, we took time to
chat and discuss the fascinating relationship betweenenvironmental sound and creativity. We hope you
enjoy our walk and the piece ofmusic inspired by the movement and sounds of
the broads in spring. Are weon? We're on? Hello? Yeah,
(01:53):
okay, Welcome home. Everybody that'sthem sort of wet, well wet,
water wise, water level wise.Morning at Wheatfen. It's the seventeenth
of March, Wednesday, the seventeenth, about six thirty probably now. I'm
(02:15):
at wheat Fed with Jesse Barrick.Good morning, Jesse, good morning,
good morning. And we've just comeout for a bit of playtime, haven't
we. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think so boggy, lovely boggy
playtime. Yeah. So we havecome out to make some recordings, but
(02:37):
we don't know what we're going todo yet, which is kind of exploring
and seeing what's going on. Butit's very well, it's very boggy.
We've sort of avoided some falling intothe bogs on a couple of occasions.
But so that's our plan. It'snot much of a plan. But maybe
(03:01):
Jesse, you could sort of sayhi, introduce yourself a little bit,
and we because we know each other. I've known each other for a long
time and Jesse as a drummer anda musician, and we have done have
we done this sort of thing before? I'm sure we have done this sort
(03:21):
of thing before. Yeah, wehave, but we did like sort of
and actually I was our mutual friend, Steven myor musician is based in Nostoft.
I was talking to him the otherday remembering that, and he was
saying that he was listening to goingback listening to the recordings and there was
(03:43):
one of you reading poetry with Ithink I was playing a gong or something
out like, yeah, that's right, but that was extremely That was different
because it was very windy, similartime, similar idea, but it was
(04:08):
yeah, that was interesting. Thisis more of a standard like tranquil morning
with a bit of a breeze.Yeah, yeah, it is. You
can probably hear the river. We'reright by the year. If you've ever
come to weekend, you can getdown to the river. And we walked
down to a viewing spot just bythe year, which is quite high.
(04:34):
It feels fast, it's fast,and yeah, yeah, absolutely so.
Yeah. So we've known each otherfor a long time and we have been
in musicians together and played together,and we are from a hometowns point of
(04:56):
view. One of the aims oftoday was just a try to demonstrate a
little bit of how you might away one way of using environmental sound in
for creating music, for creating soundart, for creating using those sounds and
(05:19):
then playing with them a little bit. So we're hoping to do that later
on, go back to Jesse's studioand mess around with some of the recordings
that we make today and see whatcomes out. Generate some chart topping tunes,
that's absolutely right, some banging,some banging tunes. So that's what
(05:39):
we're hoping to do. Here's aquestion for the listenership, Sure to I
don't know write in that I don'tspend their thoughts. If if there were
little men out here on the broads, what would they look like? Would
they look like? What kind ofskin would they have? The sort of
fish men that might live amongst thereeds and come out soliot. Yeah,
(06:04):
we discussed the idea of propagating amyth, So write in with any creative
sess we're starting it now. Wedid. We saw definitely. I saw
him for sure, but he didn'tmake any noise, so we won't hear
him. He was very good athiding amongst the habitat, very acclimatized to
(06:30):
his habitat. Yeah. Something justoccurred to me that some people might find
useful. But I mean, Imight be teaching my grandma's suck eggs.
If you come out here and you'resort of hoping to hear a bit law
(06:54):
experience something, don't listen too hard. Some times I find myself listening too
hard, and I don't. Actually, your brain is very well adapted to
noticing things, and I think thebiggest thing is like put the phone away,
(07:16):
leave it in the car at homeeven and don't listen too hard and
don't look too hard. Just bein it. Yeah, absolutely, if
you come on. If you comeon, well, a home sounds in
personal sound, which we're going tostart doing whenever we can. Again,
(07:40):
generally, for the try to encouragepeople for the first at least half an
hour forty minutes of the walk tojust listen without any gear, to walk
in silence with everybody else not talking, and just acclimatizing themselves to the acoustic
habitat that they're in and into thatof listening, listening, or just being
(08:05):
a receiver of sound and allowing yourselfto handle all that kind of sound information
that's coming to you. Makes itsound like it's some sort of computerized exchange,
but it's not. It's just it'show you're responding to it, how
you react to your environment has suchan amazing influence over over us and our
(08:30):
responses and how we interact in somany ways. And we've seen that so
many times on soundwalks that we've doneso many times on soundwalks that in the
first five ten minutes to chat tochatter, people can't get uncomfortable, not
used to the thing of being quiet. And then it slowly dies down,
and then everyone starts to get reallyhappy in it with it. And then
at the end that it takes agood while to come out of that state.
(08:54):
You've kind of got yourself into ainto a place of listen, of
deeper listening. And then and thenthe idea is the more you do it,
the more you can foster that sensein your day to day the day
to day life, that sense ofawareness and calm that comes from having to
(09:20):
everything that's going on around you andprocessing and really processing it and understanding how
it's shaping you. Yeah, sowe're going to go back to Jesse's studio
and we're going to play around withsome of the sound that we've captured this
morning. If you've got an ideaabout what we might be doing, Jesse,
(09:45):
well, well, we've just talkedabout some different sounds. We've just
talked about the reds and birds andcarp and things like that, And what
we're looking at now is a sortof small panorama of different things. We've
got thickets of trees, small treesto the left, thorns and things like
(10:09):
that, mm hmm, thorns andnuts and things like that. And then
on the right we've got the reeds, and straight in front of us we've
got the next sort of nice littleI don't know, yeah, kind of
body of water. So I don'tknow, maybe we could try and recreate
(10:31):
a space, try to try toinvent our own space out of the different
sounds that we've got and see ifwe can make it. Oh, we
just heard some sort of come invicker. Yeah, yeah, maybe we
(10:54):
could. Maybe we could create ourown space. I think that'd be quite
interesting. Yeah, yeah, Ilike that that mum no man, m
(12:58):
no, and the the m fIFread foo may me me me n y.
(18:03):
Maybe she scream scream you mean meanboom M Let me play m M
(19:03):
m M cool and burn and burnsh what's cool? M m M m
(20:48):
ye seaman man the two sister th H. You've been listening to the
(28:42):
Home Sound Show. Thanks go toweek Fund, Nature Reserve and to Jesse
Barrett. You can hear more ofJesse's music, both live and recorded,
by visiting the webpage of his mainmusical project, Mammalhands dot com. You
can also learn more about week thenat Weekfen dot org. You'll find an
(29:04):
extended version of our soundwalk on theHome Sounds website homesounds dot org, where
you will also find links to furthersoundwalks, field recordings, interviews, performances,
live streaming, microphones, and muchmore information about the Home Sounds project.
We'll be back next month. Welcomehome, everybody,
Welcome home, everybody, and welcometo the fourth episode of the Home Sounds
Show. My name is Martin andI'm a field recordistant teacher. I'm the
creator of the Homesounds Project and yourco host for the show along with Rob.
Hello everybody. My name is Roband I'm an educator and naturalist.
I work for the National Trust atSheringham Park in Norfolk as part of their
(01:00):
Children and Young People Hub. Thismonth we are offering you something different.
In March twenty twenty one, Iwent on a sound walk at whak Fend
Nature Reserve with the musician Jesse Barrett. Our aim was to tune into the
acoustic habitat of this unique nature reservein the heart of the Norfolk Broads,
and from this inspiration creates an improvisedpiece of music that blends environmental sound,
(01:26):
live instruments and electronically created sound.During our walk, we took time to
chat and discuss the fascinating relationship betweenenvironmental sound and creativity. We hope you
enjoy our walk and the piece ofmusic inspired by the movement and sounds of
the broads in spring. Are weon? We're on? Hello? Yeah,
(01:53):
okay, Welcome home. Everybody that'sthem sort of wet, well wet,
water wise, water level wise.Morning at Wheatfen. It's the seventeenth
of March, Wednesday, the seventeenth, about six thirty probably now. I'm
(02:15):
at wheat Fed with Jesse Barrick.Good morning, Jesse, good morning,
good morning. And we've just comeout for a bit of playtime, haven't
we. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think so boggy, lovely boggy
playtime. Yeah. So we havecome out to make some recordings, but
(02:37):
we don't know what we're going todo yet, which is kind of exploring
and seeing what's going on. Butit's very well, it's very boggy.
We've sort of avoided some falling intothe bogs on a couple of occasions.
But so that's our plan. It'snot much of a plan. But maybe
(03:01):
Jesse, you could sort of sayhi, introduce yourself a little bit,
and we because we know each other. I've known each other for a long
time and Jesse as a drummer anda musician, and we have done have
we done this sort of thing before? I'm sure we have done this sort
(03:21):
of thing before. Yeah, wehave, but we did like sort of
and actually I was our mutual friend, Steven myor musician is based in Nostoft.
I was talking to him the otherday remembering that, and he was
saying that he was listening to goingback listening to the recordings and there was
(03:43):
one of you reading poetry with Ithink I was playing a gong or something
out like, yeah, that's right, but that was extremely That was different
because it was very windy, similartime, similar idea, but it was
(04:08):
yeah, that was interesting. Thisis more of a standard like tranquil morning
with a bit of a breeze.Yeah, yeah, it is. You
can probably hear the river. We'reright by the year. If you've ever
come to weekend, you can getdown to the river. And we walked
down to a viewing spot just bythe year, which is quite high.
(04:34):
It feels fast, it's fast,and yeah, yeah, absolutely so.
Yeah. So we've known each otherfor a long time and we have been
in musicians together and played together,and we are from a hometowns point of
(04:56):
view. One of the aims oftoday was just a try to demonstrate a
little bit of how you might away one way of using environmental sound in
for creating music, for creating soundart, for creating using those sounds and
(05:19):
then playing with them a little bit. So we're hoping to do that later
on, go back to Jesse's studioand mess around with some of the recordings
that we make today and see whatcomes out. Generate some chart topping tunes,
that's absolutely right, some banging,some banging tunes. So that's what
(05:39):
we're hoping to do. Here's aquestion for the listenership, Sure to I
don't know write in that I don'tspend their thoughts. If if there were
little men out here on the broads, what would they look like? Would
they look like? What kind ofskin would they have? The sort of
fish men that might live amongst thereeds and come out soliot. Yeah,
(06:04):
we discussed the idea of propagating amyth, So write in with any creative
sess we're starting it now. Wedid. We saw definitely. I saw
him for sure, but he didn'tmake any noise, so we won't hear
him. He was very good athiding amongst the habitat, very acclimatized to
(06:30):
his habitat. Yeah. Something justoccurred to me that some people might find
useful. But I mean, Imight be teaching my grandma's suck eggs.
If you come out here and you'resort of hoping to hear a bit law
(06:54):
experience something, don't listen too hard. Some times I find myself listening too
hard, and I don't. Actually, your brain is very well adapted to
noticing things, and I think thebiggest thing is like put the phone away,
(07:16):
leave it in the car at homeeven and don't listen too hard and
don't look too hard. Just bein it. Yeah, absolutely, if
you come on. If you comeon, well, a home sounds in
personal sound, which we're going tostart doing whenever we can. Again,
(07:40):
generally, for the try to encouragepeople for the first at least half an
hour forty minutes of the walk tojust listen without any gear, to walk
in silence with everybody else not talking, and just acclimatizing themselves to the acoustic
habitat that they're in and into thatof listening, listening, or just being
(08:05):
a receiver of sound and allowing yourselfto handle all that kind of sound information
that's coming to you. Makes itsound like it's some sort of computerized exchange,
but it's not. It's just it'show you're responding to it, how
you react to your environment has suchan amazing influence over over us and our
(08:30):
responses and how we interact in somany ways. And we've seen that so
many times on soundwalks that we've doneso many times on soundwalks that in the
first five ten minutes to chat tochatter, people can't get uncomfortable, not
used to the thing of being quiet. And then it slowly dies down,
and then everyone starts to get reallyhappy in it with it. And then
at the end that it takes agood while to come out of that state.
(08:54):
You've kind of got yourself into ainto a place of listen, of
deeper listening. And then and thenthe idea is the more you do it,
the more you can foster that sensein your day to day the day
to day life, that sense ofawareness and calm that comes from having to
(09:20):
everything that's going on around you andprocessing and really processing it and understanding how
it's shaping you. Yeah, sowe're going to go back to Jesse's studio
and we're going to play around withsome of the sound that we've captured this
morning. If you've got an ideaabout what we might be doing, Jesse,
(09:45):
well, well, we've just talkedabout some different sounds. We've just
talked about the reds and birds andcarp and things like that, And what
we're looking at now is a sortof small panorama of different things. We've
got thickets of trees, small treesto the left, thorns and things like
(10:09):
that, mm hmm, thorns andnuts and things like that. And then
on the right we've got the reeds, and straight in front of us we've
got the next sort of nice littleI don't know, yeah, kind of
body of water. So I don'tknow, maybe we could try and recreate
(10:31):
a space, try to try toinvent our own space out of the different
sounds that we've got and see ifwe can make it. Oh, we
just heard some sort of come invicker. Yeah, yeah, maybe we
(10:54):
could. Maybe we could create ourown space. I think that'd be quite
interesting. Yeah, yeah, Ilike that that mum no man, m
(12:58):
no, and the the m fIFread foo may me me me n y.
(18:03):
Maybe she scream scream you mean meanboom M Let me play m M
(19:03):
m M cool and burn and burnsh what's cool? M m M m
(20:48):
ye seaman man the two sister th H. You've been listening to the
(28:42):
Home Sound Show. Thanks go toweek Fund, Nature Reserve and to Jesse
Barrett. You can hear more ofJesse's music, both live and recorded,
by visiting the webpage of his mainmusical project, Mammalhands dot com. You
can also learn more about week thenat Weekfen dot org. You'll find an
(29:04):
extended version of our soundwalk on theHome Sounds website homesounds dot org, where
you will also find links to furthersoundwalks, field recordings, interviews, performances,
live streaming, microphones, and muchmore information about the Home Sounds project.
We'll be back next month. Welcomehome, everybody,
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