Field recording by Mendel Kaelen
None of our senses ever operate in isolation. Each helps the other to build a picture of the moment we find ourselves in. And so to listen is an interaction not only between sound and our hearing but a dialogue in which sound feeds the imagination of our sense of touch, smell and spatial perception. As you listen, a whole sensory scene unfolds.
This recording captures the call of a chorus of frogs in the forest, the backing vocals of the many insects that populate the air. And in amongst those sounds….unheard but yet still sensed; the temperature of the air, the scents of the leaves, the mulch, the water, the flowers, the colour of the evening sky, the softness of the light….
In listening what do you feel, taste and see?
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