Podcasts about coppice

Coppice is a noun that refers to a thick growth of shrubbery, small trees or underbrush.  The Latin word colpus (COLE poos) means ‘a blow.' From there our word of the day shifted its meaning and by the Late Middle English period, it came to refer to a shrubbery. Here's an example: The coppice out back was lovely. It's nice to see some greenery this far into the desert. 

Join us in a discussion with Vermont based permaculturalist Mark Krawczyk as we talk about: How to Establish a Coppice System Agroforestry and It's Potential  Working Across the Political Divide Scaling Up Permaculture to the Broadacre  Website: www.keylinevermont.com, www.valleyclayplain.com, www.coppiceagroforestry.com

Pete Gibson talks about the Liverpool arts scene, working in the Black Coppice cult UK horror movies, and what it takes to appear on stage in theatrical productions.

Exerpts from Mark Krawczyk's presentation at the 2022 Perennial Farm Gathering, drawing from Mark's new book, "Coppice Agroforestry". Mark provides an overview of techniques and tree crops for coppicing, or "the ancient practice of resprout silviculture" - cutting off trees to make them resprout and regrow in useful ways. More at https://www.savannainstitute.org/perennialaf/.

Tonight, we'll read the opening section to “Flowers of the Farm” written by Arthur O. Cooke and published in 1900. Coppicing is a traditional method of woodland management which exploits the capacity of many species of trees to put out new shoots from their stump or roots if cut down. In a coppiced wood, which is called a copse, young tree stems are repeatedly cut down to near ground level, resulting in a stool. New growth emerges, and after a number of years, the coppiced tree is harvested, and the cycle begins anew. Pollarding is a similar process carried out at a higher level on the tree in order to prevent grazing animals from eating new shoots. — read by N — Support us: Listen ad-free on Patreon Get Snoozecast merch like cozy sweatshirts and accessories

In this episode we hear from Kath Morgan who is the coordinator and administrator for the Bill Hogarth Memorial Apprenticeship Trust and Mike Carswell, a coppice worker and former BHMAT apprentice. At the end of August 2022 I attended the BHMAT Woodland Pioneers event in the Lake district. Woodland Pioneers is an introduction to coppicing and coppice crafts run by the Bill Hogarth Memorial Apprenticeship Trust. The annual event was fantastic week of learning and hanging out with lovely, likeminded woody folks. It was an absolute joy and I'd recommend it to all listeners!This episode is the first of 3  recorded at the woodland pioneers event, look out for the next episodes with The Coppice Coop talking about charcoal making and Lorna Singleton an oak swill basket maker. *** BHMAT are now inviting applications for our next placement and hope to interview and start the placement soon (by the end of the year/beginning of 23 hopefully). Links from episode BS086 BHMAT Website - http://www.coppiceapprentice.org.uk/index.phpWoodland Pioneers - https://vimeo.com/184839079Jack Hargreaves talks about coppicing -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egVfxSkjWaETree Station - http://treestation.co.uk/Coppice conversations - https://soundcloud.com/user-787605853Coppice Association North West - https://coppicenorthwest.org.uk/wp/National Coppice Federation - https://ncfed.org.uk/Celebrate The Holiday's Alcohol FreeLearn why this time of year is the best and easiest time to quit drinking .Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show

Lorna Singleton is a coppice worker, basket maker and green woodworker. Specialising in Spelk Basketry - About Lorna - "I am one of the UK's last remaining ‘swillers', a specialist in weaving baskets using coppiced oak. From a workshop tucked away in the Cumbrian woods I weave traditional baskets known as spelk baskets, or swills. I cut and prepare the wood by hand, seeing the whole process through from the tree to the finished product, coppicing the woodland to create a truly renewable resource and improving biodiversity. I'm one of the last people still practising this ancient skill and keeping this important knowledge alive."https://www.lornasingleton.co.uk/https://www.instagram.com/lornaweavesoakThis episode is part of a trio focusing on the technique of coppicing.  THey were made possible by the Bill Hogarth Memorial Apprenticeship Trust (BHMAT).*** BHMAT are now inviting applications for our next placement and hope to interview and start the placement soon (by the end of the year/beginning of 23 hopefully). ***Episode linksWoodlanders Video - https://vimeo.com/223835984Sebastian Cox - https://www.sebastiancox.co.uk/Wood Water Weave - https://www.lornasingleton.co.uk/wood-water-weaveOwen Jones - http://www.oakswills.co.uk/Dick Preonneke - One mans wilderness - film pt1 -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG3fUIoXQ5A & pt2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3NRdZ8J24QDick Proenneke - One man's wilderness book - https://www.waterstones.com/book/one-mans-wilderness-50th-anniversary-edition/richard-louis-proenneke/sam-keith/9781513261805BHMAT - http://www.coppiceapprentice.org.uk/Celebrate The Holiday's Alcohol FreeLearn why this time of year is the best and easiest time to quit drinking .Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show

The 3rd and final coppice focussed episode is with Duncan and Sam from The Coppice Co-op. We are predominantly talking about Charcoal in this episode, its history, its uses and the ways to make it.This episode is part of a trio focusing on the technique of coppicing.  They were made possible by the Bill Hogarth Memorial Apprenticeship Trust (BHMAT).*** BHMAT are now inviting applications for our next placement and hope to interview and start the placement soon (by the end of the year/beginning of 23 hopefully). *** Episode LinksThe Coppice Co-op - http://coppicecoop.co.uk/wp/ Book - Rebecca Oaks - Making Charcoal and Biochar - https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Rebecca-Oaks/Making-Charcoal-and-Biochar--A-comprehensive-guide/21833770Local coppice charcoal supplier - https://ncfed.org.uk/public/products/charcoal/suppliers/BHMAT (Bill Hogarth Memorial Apprenticeship Trust) - http://www.coppiceapprentice.org.uk/Hookway Retort - https://hookwayretort.co.uk/Exeter Retort - https://www.exetercharcoal.co.uk/Celebrate The Holiday's Alcohol FreeLearn why this time of year is the best and easiest time to quit drinking .Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show

"Leeds Coppice Workers is a workers co-operative commited to restoring and managing neglected and underused woodlands in the Leeds area.We aim to create jobs in Leeds woodlands for our members and to promote the use of locally sourced woodland products within the Leeds area. We also aim to reintegrate local people to their woodlands, show how woodland can be managed in sustainable and ecologically sound ways and to train and share skills in woodland related activities."I had a great chat with Joshua about Leeds Coppice Workers, the history of coppicing, how he got involved and how you can.The featured track is the enchanting "Schiehallion" by Iona Lane. https://leedscoppiceworkers.co.uk/https://www.instagram.com/leedscoppiceworkers/https://twitter.com/LeedsCoppicehttps://ionalane.bandcamp.com/album/hallivalhttps://twitter.com/IonaLaneMusichttps://www.instagram.com/ionalanemusic/?hl=enhttps://www.facebook.com/ionalanemusic

Welcome back to another episode in this ongoing series on tree planting and agroforestry. Today we're going to pick up where we left off last week in our conversation with Mark Krawczyk about the practice of coppicing woody perennial plants and woodland management as a whole.  For a quick recap, Mark Krawczyk is the author of the new book Coppice Agroforestry: Tending trees for product, profit, & woodland ecology. Mark is an applied ecologist, educator, and grower incorporating the practices of permaculture design, agroforestry, natural building, traditional woodworking, and small-scale forestry. He owns and operates Keyline Vermont LLC, providing farmers, homeowners, and homesteaders with education, design, and consulting services. He and his wife also manage Valley Clayplain Forest Farm, 52 acres of field and forest in New Haven, Vermont. Despite the focus on coppice agroforestry systems that this conversation continues to revolve around, Mark and I also go into a wide array of other topics including the long history of forestry management in indigenous cultures around the world, understanding invasive species, woodland products and small craft economies, fire mitigation strategies, and a whole lot more.  This is the second of the two part episode, and if you missed the fist portion, I highly recommend you go back and have a listen because it's really worthwhile and it'll help put more of what we're talking about today into context. Another bonus that comes along with this episode is that thanks to New Society, the publishers of this book, I'll be offering a free volume of Coppice Agroforestry to listeners of this show. And yes, even though I first announced this last week, there's still a chance to win. Be sure to stay tuned until the end of the episode where I'll let you know how you can win your own copy.  Join the discord discussion channel to win a copy of Coppice Agroforestry and learn new skills with the whole community Links: https://www.keylinevermont.com/ http://www.coppiceagroforestry.com/  https://www.valleyclayplain.com/ Book recommendations Sproutlands Tending the wild

Welcome back to another episode in this ongoing series on tree planting and agroforestry. So far we've taken a broad look at many types of reforestation and how to integrate trees and woody species into farming systems, but there's another side of the coin in this conversation. Today we're going to start another two part session focusing on the management of woody perennials, specifically the practice of coppicing.  In order to get a better understanding of this ancient woodland management system I reached out to Mark Krawczyk, the author of the new book Coppice Agroforestry: Tending trees for product, profit, & woodland ecology. Mark is an applied ecologist, educator, and grower incorporating the practices of permaculture design, agroforestry, natural building, traditional woodworking, and small-scale forestry. He owns and operates Keyline Vermont LLC, providing farmers, homeowners, and homesteaders with education, design, and consulting services. He and his wife also manage Valley Clayplain Forest Farm, 52 acres of field and forest in New Haven, Vermont. Despite the focus on coppice agroforestry systems that this conversation will revolve around, Mark and I also go into a wide array of other topics including the long history of forestry management in indigenous cultures around the world, understanding invasive species, woodland products and small craft economies, fire mitigation strategies, and a whole lot more.  Since the conversation spanned an hour and a half, I split it into two parts so it's not too much of a marathon to get through in one go.  Join the discord discussion channel to win a copy of Coppice Agroforestry and learn new skills with the whole community Links: https://www.keylinevermont.com/ http://www.coppiceagroforestry.com/  https://www.valleyclayplain.com/ Book recommendations Sproutlands Tending the wild

I read from coppice to copulative.     The word of the episode is "coprolalia".     "The Dictionary - Letter A" on YouTube   "The Dictionary - Letter B" on YouTube   "The Dictionary - Letter C" on YouTube     Featured in a Top 10 Dictionary Podcasts list! https://blog.feedspot.com/dictionary_podcasts/     Backwards Talking on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmIujMwEDbgZUexyR90jaTEEVmAYcCzuq     dictionarypod@gmail.com https://www.facebook.com/thedictionarypod/ https://twitter.com/dictionarypod https://www.instagram.com/dictionarypod/ https://www.patreon.com/spejampar 917-727-5757

Disrupted by enclosure of the commons and colonialism, people have had a relationship with trees via coppice and pollard for eons. This is the show where we discuss the role moditional “modern” + “traditional” methods play in ecological restoration. The methods we talk about on this episode are known as live staking, coppicing and pollarding. My guest on this episode is Alex Slakie who is a restoration ecologist, botanist, and herbalist. He currently resides on the shared lands of the Cascades, Clackamas, Wasco, Multnomah, and Chinook peoples in Corbett, Oregon. Alex is the head of Flora Northwest LLC, a business that supplies willow live stakes and seeds for salmon habitat projects, sustainably harvested wild medicinal plants for herbal companies, and interesting nursery plants for home gardeners.  He grows and wild-tends willow coppices and stands of medicinal plants in the western Columbia River Gorge. Find Flora NW online at www.floranw.com and on Instagram @floranorthwest Alex studied ecology and sustainable agriculture at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA.  He became deeply interested in botany and restoration ecology while doing a work-study program at the Sound Native Plants nursery and has been following that pathway ever since. 15 years later, Alex is still wild-tending willow coppices for live stake production and is passionate about this almost lost art of forest management.  On a book recommendation from Alex, I picked up William Bryant Logan's Sproutlands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees. Logan explains it by saying “From ten millennia to about two hundred years ago, every person in every forested part of the world would have known exactly what we mean by “coppice and pollard.” The idea is simple: when you break, burn or cut low the trunks of almost any leafy tree or shrub, it will sprout again. New branches will emerge from behind the bases, either from buds that were dormant, waiting for their cue to grow, or from twigs newly formed by the cambium.” Enclosure has a role to play in this story too. Over the course of several centuries, much of Europe's land was privatized. That is to say taken out of some form of collective ownership and management known as the “commons” and handed over to individuals = turned into capital. Grippingly, William Bryant Logan holds space for this in his Sproutlands book. He depicts how much of the English commons was in coppice and pollard when the crown and wealthy landowners began to enclose lands as early as the 14th century. Of course, this system was exported around the world in a variety of forms of colonialism. With it, we have lost some of art, culture and political ecology of coppice and pollard as well as the relationship we had with the land. A Short History of Enclosure in Britain in The Land: An Occasional Magazine about Land Rights. Summer 2009 The Tragedy of the Tragedy of the Commons by Matto Mildenberger in Scientific American April 23, 2019 Editing for this episode provided by the wonderful Katie Dunn It takes a community to keep a podcast going. Donate to the show via Paypal www.paypal.com/paypalme/myadrick Music on the show was from DJ Freedem Tell a few friends about the show and follow the podcast on Instagram and Twitter @treehuggerpod Review treehugger podcast on iTunes

Volume 66 is sponsored by the Scared To Death podcast. Find out more at https://scaredtodeathpodcast.com/This is a story about a Cadbury egg that is anything but sweet. Written by Shannon Scott Narrated by Jasmine Arch (https://jasminearch.com/)Edited by Karl Hughes (https://twitter.com/karlhughes)With music by Daniel Birch (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Daniel_Birch)and Thom Robson (https://www.thomrobsonmusic.com/)And sound effects provided by Freesound.org The episode illustration was provided by Luke Spooner of Carrion House (https://carrionhouse.com/)Shannon Scott is an adjunct professor of English at several universities in the Twin Cities. She has contributed essays on wolves and werewolves to She-Wolf: A Cultural History of Female Werewolves (Manchester UP, 2015) and The Company of Wolves Collection (Manchester UP, 2020). She was also co-editor of Terrifying Transformations: An Anthology of Victorian Werewolf Fiction, 1838-1896 (Valancourt, 2012). More recently, her short story, “American House Spider,” came out in in Nightscript in 2019. Her novelette, “Swing a Dead Cat,” was published in Coppice and Brake: A Dark Fiction Anthology, in March 2020. Her short story, “The Bump,” will be coming out in Vastarien: A Literary Journal and her story “Dead Bread Head” was published in Oculus Sinister in November 2020. Her novella, Joyride, will be coming out in 2021 with Crone Girls Press. She can be reached at sfscott10@gmail.com Writer, poet, narrator, podcaster and all round chaos-for-brains Jasmine Arch lives in a nook of Belgian countryside with two horses, four dogs, and a husband who knows better than to distract her when she's writing. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Other Stories, NewMyths.com and Hybrid Fiction, among others. Find out more about her or her work at JasmineArch.com.You can help support the show over at Patreon.com/HawkandCleaverYou can join our Bookclub, Movieclub, and writing exercises over at Facebook.com/groups/hawkandcleaverT-shirts, mugs, posters, and comic books are available at www.gumroad.com/hawkandcleaverGet help with your short stories and your podcasts by heading to TheOtherStories.Net/services The Other Stories is a production the story studio, Hawk & Cleaver, and is brought to you with a Creative Commons – Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. Don't change it. Don't sell it. But by all means… share the hell out of it. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode, we're chatting about a forgotten history of Norwegian indigenous farming practices and their abundant relationship with an unforgiving environment.   Works Cited: A study of practical pollarding techniques in northern Europe- Helen Read https://www.ancienttreeforum.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/A-study-of-practical-pollarding-techniques-in-northern.pdf   The old Norwegian peasant community: Investigations undertaken by the institute for comparative research in human culture, Oslo- Andreas Holmsen  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03585522.1956.10411481   Human-influenced vegetation types and landscape elements in the cultural landscapes of inner Sogn, western Norway- I. Austad, L. Hauge, T. Helle, A. Skogen, A. Timberlid https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Human-influenced-vegetation-types-and-landscape-in-Austad-Hauge/cf6b9a4a32544fd6f4de8c84785217e937d1c83c     Traditional land use of the boreal forest landscape: Examples from Lierne, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway- 1 Altmetric Land use and biodiversity Traditional land use of the boreal forest landscape: Examples from Lierne, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway Bolette Bele https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00291951.2012.760002     Regeneration of Ostrya carpinifolia scop. forest after coppicing: Modelling of changes in species diversity and composition- Andrea Catorci https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrea-Catorci/publication/287750973_Regeneration_of_Ostrya_carpinifolia_scop_forest_after_coppicing_Modelling_of_changes_in_species_diversity_and_composition/links/572a50e008ae057b0a078f36/Regeneration-of-Ostrya-carpinifolia-scop-forest-after-coppicing-Modelling-of-changes-in-species-diversity-and-composition.pdf     Towards a refined understanding of the use of coastal zones in the Mesolithic: New investigations on human–environment interactions in Telemark, southeastern Norway- teinar Solheim https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322222762_Towards_a_refined_understanding_of_the_use_of_coastal_zones_in_the_Mesolithic_New_investigations_on_human-environment_interactions_in_Telemark_southeastern_Norway   Remodelling the neolithic in Southern Norway: Another attack on a traditional problem- Lisa G. Bostwick Bjerck https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00293652.1988.9965464    

A discussion of why the ancient techniques of coppicing, pollarding, and hedgelaying can be an excellent addition to the Rural American independent farmstead.

Today I'm talking with Alice and Gavin Munro from Full Grown about their exceptional work growing complete chairs from trees. So the normal procedure is to wait 50 years for a tree to grow, chop it down and begin cutting it into smaller and smaller parts. At some point the parts are small enough and you can now join them back together with glue to make a chair. Depending on the competency of the joinery and strength of the glue, your chair might last 50-100 years? Alice and Gavin Munro have a different idea. Grow one tree that you train into the right shape to be a complete chair. Grafting the branches together to make solid joins that will last forever! "Taking a radical stance on the way we produce our objects, Alice & Gavin Munro are at the cutting edge of an emerging art form, an art form that highlights an interesting way to be closer to art and nature and to create symbiotic abundance for both.Challenging the way we create products as well as how we see the items with which we surround ourselves, the Grown Furniture has an immediate tactile, visceral and organic appeal."Full Grown Building Sustainability LinksAsh DiebackFerdinand Ludwig - Buildings made from treesFerdinand Ludwig - VideoBiophilia is an innate affinity of life or living systems. The term was first used by Erich Fromm to describe a psychological orientation of being attracted to all that is alive and vital.Horatio's GardensDavid Nash (Artist)Kew GardensCradle to CradleDr Chris Cattle ( Grown Stools)Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/buildingsustainability)

Woodman Alan Brown, pictured here at Thorncombe Woods in 2006 was the sixth generation of his family to make wattle hurdles out of split rods from a hazel coppice. The family tradition now continues with his son Steve. In this podcast, Alastair Nisbet discusses the ancient craft whose roots go back to the days of the flint axe. Next: When you have an illness that's going to affect your life it makes you appreciate the beauty around you…

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Two brothers are never the same after encountering a terrible man on their shortcut home. Written by David J ThirteenNarrated by Justin FifeEdited by Duncan MuggletonWith music by Umcorps and Thom RobsonAnd sound effects provided by Freesound.orgThe episode illustration was provided by Luke Spooner of Carrion HouseDavid J. Thirteen is a writer of horror and dark fiction with stories in various anthologies, including his latest in the collection, Coppice and Brake, available now from Crone Girls Press. Find out more about David's writing at DavidJThirteen.com. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Interviews with Robert Nairne, Tanya Kirk, Malik Ibheis and James Carney. Also features Coppice the Living Puppet Girl by Molly Beth Morossa and The Whisperers by Algernon Blackwood, read by Omar El Okdah. Produced and presented by Tom Crowley, Jenny Redmond and Eleanor Rushton. The supervising editor is Odinn Orn Hilmarsson, who also composed the music. Full episode notes can be found at storyetcpod.com

  Rare Frequency Podcast 60 1 Goh Lee Kwang, "untitled 1" __, and Vice Versa (Herbal International) 2011 CD Time: 00:00-01:44 2 Jon Mueller, "A" A Magnetic Center (Rhythmplex) 2015 cassette/mp3 Time: 01:45-20:18 3 Coppice, "Flut (Tighter)" Preamble to Newly Cemented Dedication to Freedom (Aposiepese) 2016 CDr/EP/mp3 Time: 20:18-24:48 4 Olivia Block, "Dissolution BDissolution (Glistening Examples) 2016 LP/mp3 Time: 24:47-38:18 5 W. Zabarkas, "Autumn Invades the House" The Origin of Dreams (Glistening Examples) 2016 LP/mp3 Time: 38:18-46:40 6 Kassel Jaeger / Jim O’Rourke, "Side A" Wakes on Cerulean (Editions Mego) 2016 LP Time: 46:23-56:18 7 Linda Catlin Smith, "Part 14" Dirt Road (Another Timbre) 2016 CD Time: 56:25-1:05:59 8 Morgan Evans-Weiler, "Ensemble 3" Endless Overtones in Relational Space (Suppedaneum) 2016 CD Time: 1:00:59-1:13:20 9 Conrad Schnitzler & Pole, "Drachenbäume sind friedliche Wesen" Con-Struct (Bureau B) 2017 CD Time: 1:15:38-end

The ancient tradition of coppicing, the periodic cutting of trees and allowing the stumps to regrow, was once common throughout lowland Britain but has been on the wane since the late 1800's. The mosaic habitat of coppiced woodland provides opportunities for a wide variety of wildlife to thrive. With more light reaching the forest floor, recently cut areas are awash with springtime flowers. As the trees regrow they provide habitat for the sleepy and secretive dormouse and many woodland butterflies. Presenter Chris Sperring visits a traditionally managed hazel coppice in Dorset and is joined by coppicer David Partridge and botanist Andy Byfield.

  Rare Frequency Podcast 53: Many Happy Returns 1 Raymond Scott, "Ohio Plus" Manhattan Research Inc. (Basta) 2000 Time: 00:00-00:17 2 Raymond Scott, "The Wild Piece" Manhattan Research Inc. (Basta) 2000 Time: 00:17-04:16 3 Ekoplekz, "Sleng Zen" Unfidelity (Planet Mu) 2LP 2014 Time: 4:17-9:08 4 Nils Quak, "Octagonal Journey" Modular Anxiety (Umor Rex) LP 2013 Time: 9:07-15:54 5 Jean-Claude Risset, "Mutations" Music for Computer (Editions Mego) LP Time: 15:54-26:17 6 Sculpture, "Lingual Junk" Membrane Pop (Software) LP 2014 Time: 26:13-29:55 7 The Jist, "The Jist of Being In Between Jobs" The just (Va Fangool) CD 2014 Time: 29:50-37:20 8 Felix Kubin, "Piscine Ressonenz!" Zemsta Plutona (Gagarin/ZickZack) CD 2013Time: 37:20-42:23 9 Boris Hauf, "Dust" Soft Left at Westland (Mosz) CD 2005 Time: 42:23-46:05 10 C Spencer Yeh/Okkyung Lee/Lasse Marhaug, "Serious Cat’s Milk" Wake Up Awesome (Software) LP 2013 Time: 45:57-50:13 11 Coppice, "Hoist Spell " Big Wad Excisions (Quakebasket) 2014 Time: 50:12-57:20 12 Ursula Bogner, "Shepard Monde " Sonne=Black Box (Faitiche) CD 2011 Time: 57:20-1:00:02 13 Laurie Spiegel, "Appalachian Grove I " The Expanding Universe (Unseen Worlds) 2CD 2012 Time: 1:00:02-1:05:20 14 Ø, "Takaisin" Konstelaatio (Sähkö) CD 2014 Time: 1:05:20-1:12:18 15 Pete Um, "Norwegian Blues" The Old Album (Grist) CD 2008 Time: 1:14:28-end

Transcript -- Professor David Streeter takes us on a guided tour of an English oak wood.

Professor David Streeter takes us on a guided tour of an English oak wood.

Transcript -- Professor David Streeter takes us on a guided tour of an English oak wood.

Professor David Streeter takes us on a guided tour of an English oak wood.

This mix includes dense aural fogs and deep soundscapes of clarity from the likes of Mika Vainio, Deathprod, CoH, field recordist Chris Watson, and the majestic Delia Derbyshire. Coldfall is inspired by the now-fragmented ancient woodland of London and its perseverance throughout the centuries. It also owes much to erratic weather patterns deluging London with downpours during the time of its conception.   Originally broadcast on Ill FM, August 2009.   Tracklisting: Mark Pritchard - ? Burial - Untitled Arovane - Blacksoil Mercof - Ulysses (Deathprod mix) Monolake - Layer 02 Aphex Twin - Gwely Mernans Monolake - Wasteland Mika Vainio - Unien Holvit Nine Inch Nails - 2 Ghosts I Sunn O))) and Boris - N.L.T. Radian - Vertigo Whirling Hall of Knives - 2-Bar Heater and Smoke Thomas Fehlmann - Scheben Chris Watson - Cima Verde Deathprod - Cloudchamber Chris Watson - Soffi di Vento Coil - The Gimp (Sometimes) Oren Ambarchi - Gene Dopplereffekt - Holomorphic N-0 Form Svarte Greiner - The Black Dress Asher - Landscape Studies 1 Stars of the Lid - Porch (Version #28) Ø - Mojave CoH - Part III - Euphrates (III-II Devoto Maestoso Al Fine) Vex'd - Destruction Rory Storm - 3' 06" Fennesz - Onsra William Basinski - Melancholia VIII Aphex Twin - Domino CoH - Between Heaven and Earth Aphex Twin - Grey Stripe Fripp & Eno - Meissa Delia Derbyshire - Blue Veils and Golden Sands William Basinski - Melancholia V Tangerine Dream - Sequent C' Stars of the Lid - Requiem String Melody ^ Listen to Vale of Heath by Coppice

This is a welcoming mix, as satisfying as a warm mug of deep bass and crystalline sounds after a long day lolloping over the fields and through the trees of North London. It opens and ends with classic Brian Eno tracks, extending over a broad sweep of ambience that takes in its path the breathy holds of Stars of the Lid and Coil's dense chemically inspired transcription. Room is made for the inclusion of classic synth sounds from Vangelis, as well as the very modern artistry of Burial and attenuated swoops of COH. So get out and enjoy some fresh air, then get cosy and listen to this one.   Coppice enjoys trees, air, and wild places, when not spending time in front of screens or speakers.   Tracklisting: Brian Eno - A Clearing Stars of the Lid - Apreludes (In C Sharp Major) 1 COH - I Ascend Bright With Oxygen Mask Tangerine Dream - Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares Vangelis - 100 Metres Bohren & Der Club of Gore - Midnight Black Earth Brian Eno - Aragon Ghislain Poirier - Complementaire De Bleu Radian - Tiefenscharfe Stars of the Lid - Articulate Silences Part 1:1 Coil - Mexthoxy-N, N-Dimethyl (5-MeO-DMT) Autechre - Paralel Suns Abfahrt Hinwill - The Light Aphex Twin - Lichen Fennesz - Onsay Julee Cruise - Mysteries of Love Burial - Night Bus Christian Fennesz and Ryuichi Sakamoto - Aware Aphex Twin - Parallel Stripes Dick Mills - Adagio Brian Eno - An Ending (Ascent)

With over 20% of it’s area covered in woodland the South Downs was a vital source for building materials, fuel, food and shelter, as well as an essential habitat for wildlife.