Puddles is a 20 minute composition of sounds from beneath, above and around ponds, puddles, tide pools, streams, flushes and potholes. All of which are below 50 hectares, the smallest size a body of water can be to be legally protected by the Water Framework Directive in Europe. These little bodies of water are incredibly important as habitats for plants, amphibians and insects, cultivating even more biodiversity than larger bodies of water.
All of the sounds have been compiled from the past few years of field recording. Included are cave ponds on the Isle of Eigg, tide pools on Troon beach and kids wellies as they splash in London’s street puddles. Some are only with us at certain times of the year and some come and go in only a few hours, giving us little time to marvel at their strange celebration of uneven ground and shifting topographies.
