Pent Sounds is a sound map composed of field recordings made by the artist and participants documenting the ‘acoustic ecology’ of the Pent stream and its environs.
51.08704, 1.17000 Date: 29/05/21 Time: 10:00 Notes: Stream at rear of Royal Victoria Hospital. Birds, lawn mower, motorbike, kids, adults, Spitfire, footbridge Equipment: Zoom H4N Pro Recorder Recorded by Craig Gell
51.09983, 1.17212 Date: 06/03/21 Notes: Natural stream diversion running beneath tree root near Holy Well / St.Thomas' Well. Equipment: iPhone 7 Recorded by Craig Gell
51.08775, 1.16824 Date: 30/06/21 Time: 13.00 Notes: Recorder mounted on fence post overlooking culvert at Folkestone Sports Centre. Light spots of rain, workmen nearby Equipment: Zoom H4N Pro Recorder Recorded by Craig Gell
51.09931, 1.14050 Date: 17/03/21 Notes: Stream near spring below Cheriton Hill. Audio extracted from video. Equipment: iPhone 7 Recorded by Craig Gell
51.08801, 1.16597 Date: 30/06/21 Time: 12.30 Notes: Footbridge crossing stream at Folkestone Sports Centre Footgolf course. Groundworks in operation nearby. Equipment: Zoom H4N Pro Recorder Recorded by Craig Gell
51.09081, 1.14616 Date: 11/07/21 Notes: Footbridge across stream at rear of properties between Postling Road and Darlinghurst Road. Equipment: Zoom H4N Pro Recorder Recorded by Craig Gell
51.10038, 1.17141 Date: 10/07/21 Notes: Recorder mounted on log in stream of central spring at Holywell Coombe. Cows heard. Bank vole seen. Equipment: Zoom H4N Pro Recorder Recorded by Craig Gell
51.09955, 1.16467 Date: 17/07/21 Notes: Spring and pond near A20 flyover at Hollywell Coombe. Equipment: iPhone 7 Recorded by Craig Gell
51.09044, 1.16105 Date: 25/07/21 Time: 11:26 Notes: Couple of cars and a man went past, ought breeze, cloudy, a lot of emergent vegetation, some midges around Equipment: iPhone voice notes Recorded by Charlie Phillips
51.09961, 1.16512 Date: 25/07/21 Time: 12:23 Notes: Noise from a20, wood pigeon in background, a lot of vegetation covering what’s usually a busy pond Equipment: iPhone voice notes Recorded by Charlie Phillips
51.09953, 1.16480 Date: 25/07/21 Time: 12:27 Notes: By a20, gull sounds, trickle of stream Equipment: iPhone voice notes Recorded by Charlie Phillips
Participants are invited to contribute their own recordings to the project, made using any portable recording device or smartphone with a recording app. Markers will be added to the map above enabling playback of recordings made at each specific location.
Send your audio files (.mp3, .m4a or .mp4 format) and recording details (location, date and time of recording, equipment used and other observations) along with your name to info@craiggellmusic.com, or by using the form below. Please note: Maximum file size 12MB.
* Should you need or wish to trim, edit or convert your audio files, you can use any audio editing software such as Quicktime Player or Audacity. Audacity is free, open source and cross-platform, and includes useful tools such as spectrogram view for visual analysis of the frequencies heard within your sounds.