The artist Marcus Coates recorded the dawn chorus in English woodlands; he then slowed down the recordings, and filmed human singers perform the newly approachable songs in everyday English settings. Then, he speeded the footage back up again. The sound is extraordianary – and in this case, so is the video.
Audio Documentary Europe
Playtime: 5 minutes 40 seconds
Frequencies is a four part series that celebrates the power of sound, as represented by radio, in the arts.
Audio Documentary Europe.
A girl of Mexican origin in New Zealand is less than impressed with BPs public relations efforts, and phones up Mikey Havoc on Auckland radio station 95 bFM to find out more.
Audio Documentary Europe
Playtime: 7 minutes 11 seconds
Date: August, 2010
Power Tools and Guitar Amps! from Mike Niederquell on Vimeo.
A little insight into creating the sounds of transformers – those trucks and planes and whatnot that become robots. Close your eyes and it's like they're changing in front of you.
Playtime: 1 minute 30 seconds
The book Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives gets a radio reprieve with a new story specially commissioned for the BBC's One Planet programme about ageing. But this episode is most noteworthy as the one where the host makes an old lady cry.
Audio Documentary Europe
Playtime: 26 minutes 29 seconds