SOUNDING WILD
Artist
Collaborations
For artists, performers & studios who need a sound partner
as ambitious as the work
Sound is more than what you hear. It's the dimension that makes a work feel truly alive. We are field recordists, spatial composers, musicians, and sound directors. And we bring that depth to your work from first idea to final form.
Modes of working
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Sonic worldbuilding & narrative design
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Spatial and immersive sound design
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Adaptive live performance systems
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Original field recordings as source material
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Artist consultation, mentorship, & practice development
Singing With Nightingales
How a woodland encounter for 40 became a touring performance for thousands
The challenge
Mercury prize-nominated folk artist and environmental advocate Sam Lee brought Sounding Wild into the development of a touring version of Singing With Nightingales, his celebrated after-dark experience taking audiences into the woods to hear and sing with these remarkable migratory birds. .
The Solution
Sounding Wild adapted the site-specific experience into a touring audio drama engineered for the full dynamic range of live performance, from the immersive sound systems of world-class concert halls to the outdoor stages of international music festivals. All without losing the program’s signature improvisational capacity.
Sam gained the ability to attune his storytelling to any audience or environment with a scored soundscape of folk song, oral history, and the living voice of nightingales we recorded following the migratory flyway from Europe to West Africa.
Above all, we preserved the profound intimacy of hearing the nightingale for the first time in a Sussex woodland, whether performing for 40 people under the stars or 4,000 people at Glastonbury.
The results
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Performed live for over 6,500 people
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150k+ social views
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Performed at Glastonbury, Shambala, EartH Hackney, and Future of Sound
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Covered by The Guardian, BBC Radio, Emergence Magazine, Financial Review