Nant Cerdin in the Irfon Forest
I have not explored much of the Irfon Forest plantation before, but could see on an outdated aerial photograph that this section had been clear felled between 5-10 years ago. I'd hoped that, in line with current policy, NRW had replanted the streamside with native hardwoods; and my visit was able to confirm this.
So this was another occasion on which I hadn't ventured out specifically in search of soundscapes. There was a stiff breeze when I set out & the season is too early for much birdsong; but I'd taken along some sound recording equipment just in case.
This tiny stream, Nant Cerdin, a tributary of Afon Irfon, is barely a metre wide at this point, but I became captivated by the variety of sounds it produced as it cut through the shallow soil and tumbled over rocks. I made 5 recordings at various points over a 200m length of the stream, with the aim of creating a slowly evolving soundscape as the individual sections are slowly crossfaded into each other.
In the resulting montage presented here, apart from the first minute and the last two, there is no stasis. The result (I hope) is a continually morphing soundscape, onto which one can focus attention and be drawn away, if only for a moment, from the troubles of humankind.
Recorded: 2020-03-16 @1430-1530
Location: 52.1518 -3.6531
Download full recording:
16min, 42MB, .ogg format
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