Collected Peninsula Sounds by Wild Museum

This set of 36 recordings was collected by the Wild Museum artist team for the Peninsula Sounds project. The total running time is approximately 2.5hrs, you can use the arrow buttons to skip through the tracks.

Together, they serve as an extensive project archive. This archive features longer recordings of interviews and field recordings made by the artists across Hamble, Bursledon and Hound between Winter and Summer 2024.

Recording locations include pitchside at Hamble Club Football Club; a ferry boat on the Hamble River; the bell tower at Royal Victoria Country Park chapel; the living room of a retired ferry captain; mudflats at Mercury Marshes; the beer garden of the Victory pub; river banks holding the remains of 600 year old shipwrecks; Priors Hill Copse ancient oak woodland; inside St Edward’s Church in Netley; Hamble Common beach by Southampton Water; Southampton Water riverbed; various archives rooms, kitchens, and cafes.

The duration of the original recordings ranged from a 15 minute interview captured on a park bench, to 4 months of sound collected from a microphone installed in a churchyard.

Recording techniques ranged from the conventional to the experimental. This included:

• Air-pressure microphones to record voices, birdsongs, boats and bells
• Ultrasonic microphones to record bats and insects
• Hydrophones to record underwater sounds including sub-aquatic animals and boat engines
• Contact microphones to listen to the hidden resonances of boats and other materials across the peninsula