ABSTRACT
The author is particularly interested in the wider scene, the contextualisation: the arrangement and movements of these voices and other, elemental sounds convey a spatialisation of the landscape, a kind of sonic geography although the predominant theme in his sound recording work lies in the voices of other creatures. Set within this modality is the emotional connection it creates in a human listener for whom there is so much cultural history connected with wild sounds, especially from birds here in the cooler latitudes, and the way they bring a landscape to life. The author is interested in Highland ecology and wildlife since childhood, probably stemming from his first bird-book as a kid, and its landscapes-with-birds pictures, through fishing Scottish rivers with his grandfather, to many recording sessions over the last 20 years.
