'Sylvan Sounds' is an audio performance of seven soundscapes recorded in woodlands in the UK. The soundscapes are:

Rainstorm Inside Forest Earth; Rainstorm Inside a Forest Puddle; Transpiration; Creaking Pines; Decaying Birch Log; Fallen Pine Needles; and Burning Logs.

'Sylvan Sounds' was erformed on a coastal cliff top in Bude, Cornwall on 12th July 2019 for the 'Listening to Field, Body and Voice Summer School'. The event lasted 45 minutes, in which time the dusk descended, providing a sense of the passage of time. The field recordings played alongside sound events occurring in real time at the location: the distant crashing and pulsing of waves, seagulls squawking overhead, and passers-by walking their dogs up the coastal path. The new sounds mingled and merged with the pre-recorded soundscapes, creating moments of uncertainty as to whether a sound had come from the speakers or the surrounding environment.

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