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Hark! - the acoustic world of Elizabethan England

From Battery Radio | 52:24

Four centuries ago... did people listen
in a different way than we do now?
How different were the sounds they heard?
And can we tune into their auditory world?

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Winner of the 2009 Prix Marulic for best documentary and winner of the Grand Award and a Gold Medal for Best Sound at the 2009 New York Festivals Awards for Radio Programming.

HARK!
investigates the acoustic world of Early Modern England. 
Tracking down some ancient sounds that still exist, and evoking others which have become extinct, the documentary is an acoustic film building a soundtrack to imagine the noises of Elizabethan society through the ears of those who listened four centuries ago.

The Prix Marulic judges said:
"Sound is used not just to illustrate but to bring new dimensions, to tell new stories to the listener. The programme does not create a realistic soundscape of Elizabethan time, but it gives hints about that in a clever and amusing way. You can even smell the sounds of the pigs! The listener is encouraged, forced even, to think of the soundtrack of today, the noise pollution which surrounds us every moment."


The 52-minute feature was recorded and produced by Chris Brookes, Paolo Pietropaolo, and Alan Hall, with additional recording by Katie Birningham, and was inspired by
Bruce Smith's book The Acoustic World of Early Modern England.