(Image: artstation)

2 May 2021 

Bute Park, Cardiff 3:30 to 5:30 am

Dawn Listening

Celebrate this year’s International Dawn Chorus Day by listening with friends to Bute Park waking up. 

Glenn and Mike invite you to listen to the dawn chorus and to experience a small part of the ecological system on Sunday 2nd May – our contribution to International Dawn Chorus Day.

We hope compensation for such an early start will primarily be about just being there together in situ. Seeing the dawn in, and listening to birds awakening, is always affecting, even profound. We will explore, through sound, this experience of life waking all around us in its natural habitat, a moment of being with which we connect emotionally. Expect us on this auspicious day to engage in a little playfulness and introduce you to a new technique we have been exploring for collective listening electronically. 

If you want to know more about the cultural theory underlying this phase of our work, please see the attached document. For an introduction to International Dawn Chorus Day (in an earlier year), follow this BBC link. For further links to sites on birds and bird song in Britain, try this RSPB page. 

(image: Ed Gold 2021)

Cycle or walking preferable. 

Meeting point: https://goo.gl/maps/q8C5xcTcamXg6CXz9

1.) from North Road car park north on cycle track alongside park, LT to black weir, 100m south to meeting point. Nearest parking North Road adjacent to North Road turn in at the Blackweir Ambulance station: https://goo.gl/maps/ZZRYi7FvWXt6YEqm9

2.) Across Pontcanna fields over Blackweir bridge turn right 100m south to meeting point.  Nearest parking Pontcanna https://goo.gl/maps/5BjuFZWrKtytkTvW7

Essays about various aspects of this experiment can be accessed by clicking buttons below: