This page contains some of the audio files recorded by composer
and sound recordist Mike Challis (new window) as part of the
Ebb and Flow project.
You can download the audio files (right-click to download)
if you want to play them on an MP3 player or computer
off-line, or you can listen to them online (depending on the
speed of your Internet connection) by clicking on the links.
Soundscape
Using a special
surround sound microphone, Mike Challis recorded the sounds of
the River Alde and Ore and edited and arranged them into a 23
minute soundscape to give an experience of the sounds of the
river.
You can listen to the dawn chorus on the
Sailors Path, between Snape and
Aldeburgh, the birds on the marshes, the sounds of human
activity such as sailing, farming, bell ringing, the wind in
the reeds and waves at Shingle Street.
Recording timings:
- 0:00 - Woodland birds on the Sailors
Path.
- 4:10 - Sounds from the boardwalk, mainly sedge
warbler.
- 5:35 - Sounds around the Hoskins Hide,
Hazelwood Marshes.
- 7:00 - Rowing and sailing on the Alde.
- 9:00 - Sounds on the river below Orford.
- 12:50 - Chiff-chaff on the Sailors Path.
- 14:10 - Orford church bells.
- 15:10 - Crickets, irrigation, crows, cars and
tractors at Iken.
- 16:50 - Orford Quay.
- 18:40 - Snape Marshes - mainly curlews and
oystercatchers.
- 20:50 - Waves lapping the shore at Shingle
Street.
Podcast Walk
This piece documents a walk from
Snape Maltings along the Sailors Path early one morning in
May. Photographer Nick Sinclair, artist Jonathan Keep, local
historian Richard Newman and project co-ordinator Theo Clarke
talk about the landscape and its history and the art work
happening as part of the project.
Right-click to download the audio file.
Listening post sound recordings
These are some of the sounds you can hear at the listening posts
installed on the Sailors Path and at Orford Quay - some of the
oral history recordings can also be heard at the
listening posts.