Sunday, 31 May 2026

Rebecca Lennon & Ella Finer - Late Junction Attenborough At 100: The Wild Life Of Sound Mixtape


REBECCA LENNON & ELLA FINER - LATE JUNCTION ATTENBOROUGH AT 100: THE WILD LIFE OF SOUND MIXTAPE 08.05.26 (320kbs-m4a/63mb/27mins)

BBC Radio 3 broadcast: 8th May 2026

On Sir David Attenborough's 100th birthday, Verity Sharp presents a mixtape that celebrates the ways in which recorded sound and acts of listening-imagining can bring us into a close relationship with other species. Assembled as a collaboration between artist and researcher Rebecca Lennon and writer Ella Finer, the mixtape moves through musical and sonic worlds that variously abstract, reimagine and commune with human and more than human presences. Breath, vibration, rhythm, waggle - we meet the heartbeat of a swan, the voice of a whale, the purr of a cheetah, the sonorous lives of bees, foxes and street dogs. Finer’s concept of "the wild life of sound" speaks to something that the sonic and the creaturely realms share in common: a freedom from ownership, a resistance to neat categorisation, a space where connection can happen.

Produced by Alex Yates
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3

Richard Ridgway - Mute Swan Heartbeat
Annea Lockwood - World Rhythms
Cevdet Erek - Barking Drums
Ann McMillan - Whale-Wail, In Peace, En Paix: For Voice And Tape Structures Of Whale And Other [Folkways]
Rebecca Lennon - Face To Face [Flaming Pines]
Kate Carr - A Field Guide To Phantasmic Birds
Mira Calix - Nunu [Warp]
Jana Winderen - Spring Bloom In The Marginal Ice Zone
Rebecca Lennon - Waggledance
Ella Finer & Fiora - I want to know you by touch (mars quakes)
Fiora - Men Talking About Birds
Raven Chacon - Aviary
Laura Cannell - Composition With Birds, Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park
Rebecca Lennon - Fox Heartbeat

Intro (320kbs-m4a/14mb/6mins)
Outro (320kbs-m4a/4mb/1min)

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