The Wetland Project - Earth Day 2020

Slow Radio for Earth Day 2020

For Earth Day 2020 I'm pleased once again to host sound from Brady Marks and Mark Timmings, from Saturna Island off the mainland of south west Canada.

The Wetland Project Slow Radio Broadcast takes place for 24 hours on Earth Day (Wednesday, April 22). Besides this podcast, listeners can stream the soundscape in sync with their local time from anywhere in the world at wetlandproject.com/stream. You can also tweet @wetlandproject to add your voice to the interactive online stream.

In this podcast, artists Brady Marks and Mark Timmings re-create the seminal broadcast Soundscapes of Canada (Program 5: Summer Solstice, excerpts from a 24-hour field recording documenting the daily cycles of the natural soundscape), an experimental radio production by the World Soundscape Project that premiered on CBC Radio’s Ideas program in 1974. For Marks and Timmings the inspiration lies in a tiny bit of Earth and the beautiful and complex sounds that emanate from it: the ṮEḴTEḴSEN marsh in the traditional and unceded territory of the W̱SÁNEĆ First Nations on Saturna Island, British Columbia, recorded on Earth Day 2016. The sonic phenomena produced by this little wetland — not unlike other wetlands around the world—tend toward inexhaustibility and infinity, but sadly also toward extinction. The Wetland Project commemorates the 50-year anniversary of the founding of the World Soundscape Project (WSP) by Canadian writer and composer R. Murray Schafer. WSP members initiated the discipline of Acoustic Ecology by studying, through active listening, the relationship between humans and their environment. Created and produced by Brady Marks and Mark Timmings Sound recording engineer: Eric Lamontagne 2017 (58:16 min)

Created and produced by Brady Marks and Mark Timmings

Sound recording engineer: Eric Lamontagne

2017 (58:16 min)

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You can listen to last week's Slow Down on RedShift Radio right here, embedded from MixCloud. 

Tune in at 8pm UK time on Thursday via the TuneIn app or via www.redshiftradio.co.uk.

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My RedShift Radio colleague, Chrisoula Sirigou, invited me on to her Health and Healing show in July. I've now been able to pop the show online for listeners to dip into wherever and whenever they like...

Show playlist:

Tim Prevett - Show Introduction

Renaissance - Northern Lights

Tim Prevett - A little more about Slow TV

Karri Bremnes - Hurtigruta

Chrisoula Sirigou and Tim Prevett- What is Slow TV?

Frederick Rousseau - Serenite

Chrisioula Sirigou and Tim Prevett - Why is Slow TV important?

Tim Prevett sound recording - Cotswold Country Window at Frocester

Neil Diamond - Beautiful Noise

Chrisoula Sirigou and Tim Prevett - Further thoughts on Slow TV

Peter Gabriel - Digging in the Dirt

Slow Television - The Slow TV Blog

Slow TV News and Reviews No. 31 - Interview on BBC Radio Wales

I talk with Peter Johnson and Mai Davies on Good Evening Wales, BBC Radio Wales, 4th May 2016 about Slow TV and Slow Radio.

Slow Television - The Slow TV Blog