Dear Gregg Wagstaff,
Your ink polaroid has cheered me up no end as I sit here immersed in the
lo-fi sound of Bristol city centre. Teleworking is the way forward for
ear-minded folk.
Looking forward to the extraordinary sound event of Bristol Balloon Fiesta
this weekend.
matt rose @ the quiet club
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From: Gregg Wagstaff [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 07 August 2000 21:09
To: WFAElist; soundscapeuk
Subject: just sitting...
How privileged I felt this evening just sitting in wonderment - listening
and watching the world go by, witnessing the unfolding of events: I was
having dinner, around 8.30pm, sat in my garden (I rent a farm cottage). The
evening is warm, very little wind, and the sun is setting most
spectacularly; orange, greys, golds, silvers and blues - changing every
minute. The farmers are working late, flat out, harvesting the Rape seed and
Barley whilst it is still dry. They drive around in a large, green, dusty
and noisey 'combine' - earlier today I watched through the window as they
cropped the Rape from infront of the cottage here. Now they are on a further
Barley field, I can still hear the threshing and engine noise in the
distance. The harvesting in the fields, the warmth and the stillness of wind
has caused insects to rise high into the sky. Swarms of swallows are chasing
and feeding on the insects, diving and turning at heights up to 70 meters or
so. The sky is sounding - full of their pin-point calls. Small field mice
flee the path of the combine and garden becomes a small island of salvation.
I see one run from hedge to hedge under my window. I hear at least another
two from another hedge also. A small bird of prey (a kestrel, I think in
this half-light) drops into the stripped Rape field. Presumeably it has seen
the mice too, preying on those which can't make it to the grassy verges, or
into this garden. A bat leaves the eaves of my roof and heads for the woods.
Then another two, through the sounding, setting sky.
Gregg Wagstaff
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