Animal Stories
Overview: Three museum soundscapes for forest, meadow and undersea worlds.
- Format
- Installation
- Duration
- 1. 29′30″ · 2. 22′ · 3. 26′55″
- For
- Multiple speakers around the space
- First shown
- New Walk Museum, Leicester, 2011
Notes
Animal Stories comprises three soundscapes that played as loops during themed exhibitions at New Walk Museum, Leicester. The music combines a selection of processed samples (sources listed below) with original musical material by Andrew Hugill, performed by a student ensemble at De Montfort University.
1. In the Forest
Sound samples (in order of appearance):
- Morning in the Forest (a forest in Perthshire, early April, featuring robins, song thrushes and other woodland birds; recorded by “inchadney” and made available under a Creative Commons licence via Freesound)
- Grey Squirrel (from the British Library Sound Archive; used with permission)
- Rabbit (from the British Library Sound Archive; used with permission)
- Red Fox (from the British Library Sound Archive; used with permission)
- Wild Boar (from the British Library Sound Archive; used with permission)
- Pine Marten (from the British Library Sound Archive; used with permission)
- Red Deer (from the British Library Sound Archive; used with permission)
- Sika Deer (from the British Library Sound Archive; used with permission)
- Deer (recorded by “justkiddink” and made available under a Creative Commons licence via Freesound)
- Noctule Bat (from the British Library Sound Archive; used with permission)
- Pipistrelle Bat (from the British Library Sound Archive; used with permission)
- Evening in the Forest (recorded by “reinsamba” and made available under a Creative Commons licence via Freesound)
2. In the Meadow
Sound samples (in order of appearance):
- Summer evening in my garden (featuring various birds, dogs barking, etc.; recorded by “acclivity” and made available under a Creative Commons licence via Freesound)
- Hoverflies (recorded by “dobroide” and made available under a Creative Commons licence via Freesound)
- Dog panting (recorded by “dobroide” and made available under a Creative Commons licence via Freesound)
- Dog barking (recorded by “laurent” and made available under a Creative Commons licence via Freesound)
- Cat purring (recorded by “nikki” and made available under a Creative Commons licence via Freesound)
- Creepy backgrounds (recorded by “alextundra” and made available under a Creative Commons licence via Freesound)
- Evening in the Forest (recorded by “reinsamba” and made available under a Creative Commons licence via Freesound)
3. Under the Sea
Sound samples (in order of appearance):
- Water (recorded by “pushtobreak” and made available under a Creative Commons licence via Freesound)
- Gentle Seawash on shore (from the BBC Sound Effects Library)
- Bottlenose Dolphin (from the British Library Sound Archive; used with permission)
- Sperm Whale (from the British Library Sound Archive; used with permission)
- Heavy Surf and waves on seashore (from the BBC Sound Effects Library)
- Weddell Seal (recorded by Dr Ian Stirling; permission awaited at the time of compilation)
- Leopard Seal (recorded by Dr Ian Stirling; permission awaited at the time of compilation)
- Pilot Whale (recorded by Dr Anna Moscrop; permission awaited at the time of compilation)
- Humpback Whale (recorded by Dr Anna Moscrop; permission awaited at the time of compilation)