Wem Sound Trail of the Mosses

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Location: Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom

Andrew Howe
Andrew Howe
A collection of soundscapes linking with the Mosses and Marshes project led by artists Andrew Howe (UK) and Kim V.Goldsmith (AUS). These include recordings at Fenn's and Whixall Moss with children from Wem Youth Club, former peat cutters Barbara Clorley and Bill Allmark, poetry by Ted Eames and Gertie Bielstein, and soundscapes from field recordings in the Mosses and Marshes edited by Andrew Howe and Kim V.Goldsmith

Lost on the Moss

"Lost on the Moss" poem written and performed by Gertie Bielstein

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Words of the Mosses

Barbara Clorley, Bill Allmark, children from Wem Youth Club and Andrew Howe speak about some of the words and place-names associated with the Mosses

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The Mosses

A poem written and performed by Ted Eames

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Peat Cutting

The sounds of cutting peat returns as Barbara Clorley and Bill Allmark talk about their working life. Commercial peat cutting ended at Fenn's and Whixall Moss in 1989, and the National Nature Reserve was established soon after to protect and restore the area as peatbog. The Marches Mosses BogLIFE project aims to transform the degraded peatbog from being a net carbon emitter to being a vital carbon store once again, and to help the biodiversity of this landscape thrive.

No peat was harmed in the recording of this soundscape

One recording of digging courtesy of https://freesound.org/people/lollosound/sounds/124916/

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Birds of the Mosses

A soundscape from dawn to night including recordings by Andrew Howe and Stephen Barlow. Listen out for blackbirds, robin, song thrush, cuckoo, chaffinch, nuthatch, chiff chaff, woodpecker, wood pigeon, willow warbler, reed bunting, grasshopper warbler, sedge warbler, common snipe and nightjar and various others in the background.

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I am Walking

Artists Andrew Howe and Kim V.Goldsmith invite you to join them and share the experience of walking across their respective landscapes of the Fenn's and Whixall Mosses and Macquarie Marshes in New South Wales, Australia.

Soundscape created and edited by Andrew Howe and Kim V. Goldsmith with library recordings courtesy of: https://freesound.org/people/jaegrover/sounds/240549/

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