WEDNESDAY 18TH JUNE 2025 | 7PM | £5 ADV

Come join us for Listen Club 25, curated by sound artist, podcaster, ecologist Adrian Newton! We’re living in an unprecedented period of rapid environmental change, including global heating, biodiversity loss and the spread of microplastics and other pollutants. Most of these changes are attributable to human actions. But what does environmental change sound like? If we listen carefully enough, can we hear how ecosystems are being transformed? In this session I’ll present a series of short sound clips recently gathered from different natural environments, using a variety of recording techniques. These include ancient woodlands affected by climate change, beaches polluted by plastic, and the hidden sounds of anthills, bumblebee nests, chalk streams, beaver colonies and sand dunes. As we listen, we’ll explore what these recordings can reveal about the impacts of people on wildlife, and the ecological processes going on around us. We’ll also consider how our responses to these changes might be examined, through the use of field recordings in music and sound art.

Artist bio: Adrian Newton spent several decades researching human impacts on ecosystems, while working as an ecologist for a variety of research institutes and universities, and the United Nations Environment Programme. For the past 15 years he has also been a practicing sound artist, creating work that examines the sounds of environmental change. His sound work has been featured in a number of national and international festivals, and broadcast on national radio. He also produces the monthly internet radio show and podcast Sound mosaics for a broken world