Recently WKF cic was asked to collect sounds to make a 5.1 surround sound winter soundscape, meaning I was off into the North Wales landscape with a mic and keen ear.
I would need all kinds of sounds to build this audio tapestry and create a story with no words and no visuals.
The first piece of the puzzle: bird calls of the Carneddau and I knew my new friend Jack from the RSPB would point me in the right direction. Also to make sure that the star of our last film, the Red-billed Chough, would make an appearance "Tick"
Nature sounds leads us to farming sounds: a Landrover drives up the hill, a farmer whistle's for his trusty K9 and then we hear the bleating of sheep followed by the rushed trotting of their hoofs. Rain starts but the sounds continue - cows, carneddau ponies, a babbling brook then tapping. The tapping is the sound of axes being made and then the sounds of the quarry in the distance and at the end...
Well, I won't want to give away the ending.
The Winter Soundscape is currently playing at the Penmaenmawr Museum so why not go along and see, I mean hear all the sounds of the Carneddau.
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