Just before Christmas, a bitter wind blew in. Ice and snow descended, first in Scotland and then, on Boxing Day, across the rest of the UK. Before it could melt or the new year arrive, a second blizza

For many years the musician and ecologist Bernie Krause has lived in the Sonoma Valley in California, a base from which he travelled the globe to record natural soundscapes, creating the largest priva

Unlike the shelter of a studio -where the light is steady, the wind absent, and the kettle within reach - there is no such control outdoors. Instead, it offers participation: you don’t simply observe

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In 1900, aged fourteen, Jacques Rivière founded a little journal called L’Avenir (“The Future”) which lasted three years, its print run extending to just five mimeographed copies circulated within his

Unlike the shelter of a studio -where the light is steady, the wind absent, and the kettle within reach - there is no such control outdoors. Instead, it offers participation: you don’t simply observe