Sounding Coastal Change - 24 Hour Live Broadcast


Tuesday 17 July, 2018


As part of World Listening Day, Sounding Coastal Change present a 24 hour live broadcast from Blakeney Quay. It includes a dawn chorus recorded at NWT Cley Marshes and at 4pm a round table discussion with NWT head of People and Wildlife, David North and other key conservation figures of the north Norfolk coast.

Sounding Coastal Change is a research project about social and environmental change in North Norfolk, exploring different ways of thinking about coastal change and imagining what kind of coast we might wish to see in the future.

The idea is to use sound, music and different kinds of listening, to explore the ways in which the coast is changing and how people’s lives are changing with it. Using sound to do this enables us all to bring together the many human and non-human voices and sounds that together create the coast as a ‘living landscape’.

The project home is Blakeney village and the research activities focus upon the village, Blakeney National Nature Reserve, and North Norfolk more generally including, for example Cley Marshes, Sheringham, Holt, Salthouse, Cromer, Happisburgh and Wells-next-the sea.


24-hr LIVE BROADCAST World Listening Day 2018

Wednesday 18 July, Blakeney
Listen: from 4am on 18 July onwards at www.soundingcoastalchange.org


Resulting from almost two years of collaborations with local organizations and individuals, the broadcast includes live discussions, a documentary made by the Year 6 pupils of the Pilgrim Federation of Church of England Primary Schools, a new radio ballad featuring interviews with local residents, recordings of live music events, digital sound art, Sound Arks, and environmental sounds including the Dawn Chorus.

The BROADCAST SCHEDULE will be published at www.soundingcoastalchange.org
On the day, be part of the broadcast by making YOUR MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE at the SCC ENGAGEMENT TENT in the Blakeney Parish Council quayside car park , and say ‘Hi’ to the broadcast team in the Seagulls & Samphire Art & Craft Centre at Blakeney Quay.
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