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The bread and butter of Active Environmental Listening, soundwalks offer a unique, profound and inspiring opportunity to tune into your acoustic habitats.

Suitable for any age, soundwalks offer;

• Physical activity

• Nature Connection

• Educational Opportunities

• Creative Inspiration

• Therapeutic Potential

• Team Building

• Social Contact

• Health and Wellbeing Benefits

• Much More!

Soundwalks can be for;

• Individuals

• Groups and Clubs

• Schools and other Education provideres

• General Public or Private Events

• Anyone!

Soundwalks can take place at

• Nature Reserves

• School Campuses

• Villages/Towns/Cities

• Footpaths

• Beaches

• Anywhere!

Soundwalks can be;

• 10 minutes

• 1/2hr

• 1, 2, 3hrs

• 1/2 day

• 1 day

• Any Length!

HomeSounds offers in-person lessons, talks and workshops for a wide variety of groups, education provders and organisations. 

Deliverd by experienced, qualified and Enhanced DBS checked tutors, these sessions offer the chance to delve more deeply into the world of environmental sound. 

Topics often covered in these sessions include;

• Acoustic Ecology

• Listening for Health and Wellbeing

• Local Soundscapes and Wildlife

• Sound Technology

• Many More!

These sessions are tailored to suit the ages, backgrounds, needs and interests of your group. If you would like to bring HomeSounds to where you are, please get in touch.

Originally created during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns to provide access to nature and in support positive heatlh and wellbeing, online soundwalks are designed to offer connection to the infintely rich and fascinating acoustic habitats of the world to those who may not otherwise be able to access them. 

Drawing on the format and experience of our in-person soundwalks, online soundwalks offer the opportunity for individuals and groups to listen to live and pre-recorded sound when access to a place is limited or impossible. 

Online soundwalks are ideal for;

• Any age

• Any group size (many more than an in-person soundwalk)

• People cared-for at home, unable to leave their homes or with limited mobility.

• Excluded or isolated people or groups

• Remote learning

To learn and experience more, why not re-take one of our previous online soundwalks here, or to enquire click a button below. 

HomeSounds creates dedicated online learning spaces where students can follow a structured program of education in environmental sound and Active Environmental Listening. 

Employing the Google Classrooms platform (Google account required), these classrooms provide;

• A space to hold and gather resources and materials

• A secure chat forum

• Facility for deadlines to be set and sessions to be timetabled through a dedicated calendar

• Video-conferencing

• Tools for creating quizzes, setting assignments, marking work and send announcemens and notices

• Knowledgeable subject, technical and leadership support from HomeSounds. 

Each classroom is created on a bespoke basis, as such pricing is individual and relative to the size of the class, length of program, number of teachers and scale of input from HomeSounds.  

To learn more click an enquiry button below.

HomeSounds installs temporary or permanent, fixed or mobile, live streaming microphones. Each microphone broadcasts 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to the Locus Sonus Soundmap. They enable remote listening to acoustic habitats, not only allowing us to hear what is happening at these places when humans are not there, but also offering a unique experience of the soundscapes of these places, their changing nature across the seasons, the variety (or not) of wildlife they contain, and an opportunity to build a deeper and richer relationship with that particular place.  

If you would be interested in learning more about temporary or permanent, mobile or fixed, live streaming of acoustic habitats, or would like to discuss installing a microphone, please get in touch or explore this website for more information on the potential for creative inspiration, learning, and imrpoving health and wellbeing offered by active environmental listening. 

For information on our previous installations please visit www.homesounds.org 

Created through Martin Scaiff's tenure as Environmentalist in Residence at Suffolk Libraries, the HomeSounds Nature Silent Disco is a party like no other!

Incorporating pre-recorded and live environmental sound (often gathered from local acoustic habitats surrounding the disco venue),  reading, writing, painting, doodling, conversation, bio-sonification, plant interaction, thinking, listening and a million other potential activities, the disco celebrates the influence, diversity, joy and magic of environmental sound.

Click here to listen to an extract of an HomeSounds Nature Silent Disco at Mildenhall Library in Suffolk, UK.

The disco is for;

• Any age/background

• Max 50 people (potentially many more - the largest silent disco ever was for 20,000!)

• Almost any Indoor or outdoor venue

The disco can also be tailored to specific themes (e.g. wildlife/wellbeing/local/weather), groups (e.g. nature clubs, patients, students) events (e.g weddings/parties) or  purpose (e.g. dawn chorus/summer equinox).

To learn more or to enquire about bringing the disco to wherever you are click a button below.