Flight Paths, by Mark David Hadley

Flight Paths

by Mark David Hadley

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1.	Reeds Near the Sea 05:45		buy track
2.	Linnets and Railings 06:30		buy track
3.	The Bird Hide 05:06		buy track
4.	House Martins 11:18		buy track
5.	A Field Close to the Sea 04:40		buy track
6.	Reeds by a Fence 08:13	info	buy track
7.	The Sea at Freshwater West 05:10		buy track

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Flight Paths: Field Recordings From Gupton Farm, Pembrokeshire, Summer 2022

In the summer of 2022 I stayed at Gupton Farm, a National Trust site in Pembrokeshire, Wales, next to the coast at Freshwater West. It is a beautiful place with a fantastic beach, sand dunes, reed beds, wetlands and farmland that are managed to provide a diverse range of wildlife habitats.

It is also nestled between an active Ministry of Defence firing range and a large industrial refinery at Milford Haven which are also very present in the landscape.

While I was there I made a number of sound recordings. There are certain sounds that are very prevalent at Gupton Farm and Freshwater West, perhaps most obviously the sound of the sea, you are never far from the sea so it is present in most of the recordings. Also there are a lot of birds here - linnets, house martins and many others that I never managed to identify. But more surprising was the large amount of aeroplane noise. The site seems to be on a lot of flight paths and so there is rarely long between aircraft.

Initially, I was quite dismayed by the amount of aeroplane noise but this is the reality of most places, particularly in a small, densely populated country like the UK, even somewhere slightly less populated and remote like Gupton Farm, so I have left the aeroplanes in as they are a part of the honest soundscape here.

There are many wire, metal and electric fences throughout the site - handy for attaching recording gear to! The sounds of these fences also feature in the recordings.

As I listen and record more I have begun to appreciate the combinations of sounds that I find in the moment whatever they are rather than trying to find something very particular or "natural". I learnt a lot about field recording in this beautiful and interesting place.

This collection is primarily meant as a holistic listening experience, a single piece of work for interest or relaxation, rather like music.

All of these recordings were made with a stereo pair of omni “Clippy” microphones from Micbooster.com and a Roland R07 portable recorder.

www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/wales/freshwater-west-and-gupton-farm

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released April 30, 2023

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