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A musical love letter to the dawn chorus ft. Mya-Rose Craig

Ultimate CalmErland Cooper: Series 8
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Orkney’s Erland Cooper dedicates an hour to his favourite sound, with music that celebrates the beauty of birdsong. Plus a safe haven from ornithologist Mya-Rose Craig.

A composer from Orkney, Erland Cooper has spent his life listening to birdsong and weaving it into his own musical creations. This episode, he celebrates the beauty of the dawn chorus, with songs that foreground our feathered friends. There’s music from the likes of Jon Hopkins, Alice Boyd and Nailah Hunter, and Erland shares a recording of a recent visit he had to the gannet colony at Bass Rock in Scotland.

And we’re transported to the sonic safe haven of fellow fan Dr Mya-Rose Craig, aka ‘birdgirl’. An ornithologist, environmentalist and presenter of the Get Birding podcast, Mya-Rose shares memories of childhoods spent in the Lake District and the song of woodwarblers that soundtracked them.

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Music Played

  • Erland Cooper

    Luminosa

    • Adoro Te Devote.
    • Mercury Classics.

  • Rachel Kitchlew & Alice Boyd

    Tape session

    • Tape Session (Live at Shuta Shinoda's Studio) (Live).
    • Self Released.

  • hellllhound

    here in the valley

    • here in the valley.
    • Constellation Tatsu.

  • Erland Cooper & BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

    Dawn Chorus movement III

    • Dawn Chorus movement III.

  • Mary Lattimore & Hannah Frances

    Beholden to the Birds Murmuring Above

    • Nestled in Tangles (Deluxe).
    • Fire Talk.

  • Carlos Niño & Duval Timothy

    birds, shells, rivets, keys

    • rain music.
    • Carrying Colour.

  • Jon Hopkins

    Dawn chorus

    • Piano Versions.
    • Domino.

  • Lara Somogyi

    mirabel

    • a [time] patterned.
    • Mercury.

  • Greg Foat

    Blob #1

    • Blobs.
    • Blue Crystal Records.

  • Patricia Wolf

    Woodland encounter

    • See-Through.
    • Balmat.

  • wildSong

    wood warbler under spruce 6-00 am

    • Białowieża II ~ riverine scenes.

  • David Cordero & Tomotsugu Nakamura

    Wabi

    • Aware 哀れ.
    • Home Normal.

  • Anna McLuckie

    Winterlude

    • The Little Winters.
    • Hudson Records.

  • Blu Miles & Alaskan Tapes

    Rosewood

    • Views From Sixteen Stories.
    • Self-Released.

  • Six Missing & weareforests

    transient phenomena

    • highest form (roygbiv).
    • We All Speak In Poems.

  • Brannan Lane

    Simple Pleasures

    • Simple Pleasures.

  • Emile Mosseri & Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

    Brush

    • I Could Be Your Dog / I Could Be Your Moon.
    • Ghostly International.

  • Cosmo Sheldrake

    Evening Chorus (Live in the Bluebell Woods)

    • For the Birds: The birdsong Project, Vol II.
    • Downtown Records.

Broadcast

  • Yesterday21:00
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind