Soundscape
Listen to our vineyard soundscape made in collaboration with Synergy Sound.
For this year’s rosé label, we asked Angela Groves & Paul Fisher from Bristol-based Synergy Sound to help us create a soundscape for the vineyard in Somerset.
The soundscape is an audio representation of the wonderful sounds we hear in our Somerset vineyard across the growing season from winter, spring, summer and autumn. We’ve deliberately chosen this order because for us, harvest signifies the end of the year. Once the grapes are safely picked and in the winery tanks, we feel a great sense of relief and of having a start afresh with a blank slate as we begin prepping for the following years growing season… it’s a great feeling!
Thanks also to RSPB volunteer Pete Allen for his birding advice with this project.
Sounds to listen out for include…
People harvesting the grapes in the vineyard
Marshall Clements the neighbouring farmer calling in the sheep or cattle
Planes taking off from Bristol Airport
Cars
Voles (an sometimes hear a loud squeak on a quiet winter day)
Fly the vineyard dog barking
Hedgecutting
Haymaking tractors
The snip snip of pruning in winter
Bird list:
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0s: Blackbird alarm duetting
1s: Crow and robin Winter song straight after
2s: Black headed gull
4s: Redwing seep contact call
7s: Fieldfare chack chack chacking
8s: Redwings and fieldfares join to make a large flock
10s: Starlings join the flock
13s: Large groups of Corvids roost together for the winter mainly crows rooks and jackdaws
18s: Plane comes into land at Bristol Airport
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22s: Rooks waking up at dawn
22s: Blackbird singing
24s: Dunnock singing in the hedgerow
25s: Great tit singing the teacher teacher song
27s: Green wookpecker yaffle
30s: Blue tit singing
31s: Sheep arrive with the farmer
42s: Blackbird singing
44s: Wren singing
46s: Song thrush singing
51s: Blue tit singing
52s: Song thrush singing
53s: Greenfinch in background
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56s: Bees buzzing in the vineyard
58s: Yellowhammer singing..."A little bit of bread and some cheeeeese"
1m 0s: Swallows chatter as they feed on insects in the vineyard
1m 2s: Plane flys overhead
1m 5s: Yellowhammer singing..."A little bit of bread and some cheeeeese"
1m 6s: Fly barking and then panting
1m 10s: Robin Summer song
1m 11s: Tractor passes by
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1m 14rs: Jacdaws calling
1m 15s: Goldfinches
1m 16s: Crows cawing
1m 17s: Blue tits start to group as it gets colder
1m 22s: Robin singing an Autumn song
1m 23s: Wood pigeon calls..."My toe isss bleeeeding, my toe isss bleeding"
1m 23s: Families arrive to help pick the grapes
1m 26s: ****** drives by on his quad bike
1m 35s: Bottle of wine is opened as the party starts 😉