Musician and producer Martyn Ware today released an 82-minute ’coastal soundscape’ inspired by the hundreds of sounds submitted as part of the National Trust ‘Sounds of our Shores’ project, which ran throughout the summer of 2015.
Called ’Sea Inside Us All’ this ‘cinema for the mind’ takes listeners on a sonic journey into a world of rich, diverse and beautiful sounds from the stunning UK coastline.
The crowd-sourced project was a collaboration between the National Trust, British Library and National Trust for Scotland that ran between June and September 2015 – part of a celebration of the National Trust’s 50th anniversary of the Neptune Coastline Campaign.
Martyn Ware, a founding member of The Human League and Heaven 17, said: ’This project has been a delight to work on – it has been a genuine pleasure to create this unique composition featuring the amazing sounds that people have recorded around our magnificent and characterful coastline.’
Some of the sounds that made it on to the soundscape include the classic ghost train ride in an amusement arcade, the singing of a Cornish folk song and people walking along a shingle beach.
All of the sounds submitted as part of the Sounds of our Shores project, via audioBoom, appear on a unique sound map and will be added to the British Library Sound Archive.
More than 680 sounds were uploaded by hundreds of people from across the UK on to the sound map from around the 10,800 miles of coastline including the intensity of the Fog Horn on the Lizard in Cornwall to the drama of heavy waves on Orkney.
You can listen to the full soundscape for free via audioBoom by visiting: https://audioboom.com/channel/soundsofourshores and share your thoughts on twitter using #shoresounds

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