What is kept here
The library holds about 40 terabytes of master audio, recorded across three collections over six winters. Every master is a complete session, not a cut-down take, so a studio that needs one gust at twenty seconds can find it inside a file that runs for four hours. Working copies are made for editing, but the masters themselves are never trimmed, normalised or processed.
Most of the material was recorded by two people who still work the sessions themselves. They plan each one against a written list of textures, set levels before the first sound, and write the log the same day. The logs are plain text kept beside the audio, so a file can still be read long after the software that made it has changed.
How the catalogue is arranged
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KA-W Wind and ridge
- Open ground, saddles and crests, mostly in autumn
- Full entries are listed on the wind and ridge page
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KA-H Harbour textures
- Slipways, bollards, chains and swell on shingle
- Full entries are listed on the harbour textures page
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KA-R Rain on tin
- Corrugated roofs, gutters and sheet metal in light and heavy rain
- Full entries are listed on the rain on tin page
Where to begin
The catalogue lists every entry with its reference, format and size. If you need to know what a file contains before reading its entry, the recording method page explains how levels, positions and timings were set. The formats page gives sizes per hour for each delivered format, which is usually the first thing a production schedule needs.
Listen, watch and scan
Three long wind, rain and harbour beds can be played in the browser on the listen page. A short abstract moving image with its sound is on the watch page. The scans page holds one large sheet scan and a twelve-page document, each with a plain download link.