Live stream: mobile_open_lab.mp3
Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes
Open University
Latitude: +52.023702550391°
Longitude: -0.7137787342071533°
The Open University's Walton Hall Campus is located in Milton Keynes, a 'new city' 50 miles north of London, UK. The site of recording is on the edge of the western boundary of the campus, running along the Ouzel River. OU academic involvement in this project includes Emma Dewberry (design ecologies) and Phil Wheeler (ecology and conservation). Sound artist, Caroline Devine, has acted as consultant and advisor to this OU sound stream project and the inaugral streaming of the Weston OpenLiving Lab.
At this site the planting is a mixture of established trees and newly planted saplings as part of the Open University's Weston OpenLiving Lab project.
The sounds you might hear include a range of common woodland birds: robin, wren, tits, thrushes and warblers and occasional water birds including little egret, grey heron and kingfisher.
You may also hear the river Ouzel, the wind through the trees and background road noise.