Sounds from dangerous places

Book with audio CDs

By Peter Cusack

Audio CDs and accompanying hardback book bringing together extensive field recordings, original colour photographs and writing from the work in Chernobyl, Caspian oil, and UK sites. A rich document providing background information, interviews and detailed documentation of the recordings, their collection, the history of the environments recorded and the curious and inadvertent inverse relation between human hazard and broader environmental recovery.

CD1: Chernobyl (37 trks 74:18)

  1. Radiometer, Kopachi (3:29)
  2. Ferris wheel, Pripyat (2:47)
  3. Power cable crackle (2:02)
  4. Pripyat wind and chiffchaff (1:49)
  5. Kindergarten footsteps, Pripyat (1:05)
  6. Cuckoo and radiometer, Pripyat (1:48)
  7. Walking on glass bottles—Kindergarten, Pripyat (0:23)
  8. “Where should I look for you people?”, poem by Tsalko Svetlana (1:03)
  9. Music room, Kindergarten, Pripyat (1:08)
  10. Walking on books 1/radiometer, Kindergarten, Pri
  11. Hissy machine, Laundry, Pripyat (2:06)
  12. Bar, Friday night, Chernobyl town (1:19)
  13. Chernobyl nightingales (4:21)
  14. Dawn chorus, Chernobyl town (4:43)
  15. Woodfire, hens, early morning, Chernobyl town (1:47)
  16. Horse and cart greeting, Lubianka village (1:09)
  17. Turkey, Lubianka village (1:03)
  18. Chernobyl evacuee’s lament, Stovpyagi village (3:40)
  19. “Oh My Beloved Village”, Stovpyagi village (3:08)
  20. Sarcophagus work (3:45)
  21. Power cable crackle (1:33)
  22. Summer grasshoppers, summer wind, Duminskoye village (1:19)
  23. “Three Cossacks”, Duminskoye village (2:01)
  24. “How Can My Sweet
  25. White stork chicks screeching in the nest, Lychmany village (0:28)
  26. White stork chicks, bill tapping, a distant song, Lychmany village (1:01)
  27. “Copper Tubes”, Lychmany village (1:24)
  28. “When You Are a Widow”, Lychmany village (1:25)
  29. Golden Oriole beside radioactive trucks/helicopters (2:56)
  30. “Quiet Conversation”, poem by Tsalko Svetlana (1:03)
  31. Squeaky hinge, Opachichi village (1:27)
  32. “Black Wave”, poem by Tsalko Svetlana (0:26)
  33. “Ukraine’s Politicians”>, poem by Tsalko Svetlana (0:35)
  34. Chernobyl frogs (7:05)

CD2: Caspian oil and UK sites (39 trks 76:24)

  1. Oilfield atmosphere (1:59)
  2. Oil work tune 1 (0:39)
  3. Oil work tune 2 (0:37)
  4. Oilfield soundwalk 1 (7:09)
  5. Oil work tune 3 (0:53)
  6. Caspian Sea wash (1:38)
  7. Drilling (2:07)
  8. Nodding donkey extreme close-up (1:15)
  9. Oilfield soundwalk 2 (8:00)
  10. Accordion, kids and a dog (1:47)
  11. Nard from the window (0:58)
  12. Narrow street atmosphere (1:02)
  13. Reluctant piano (1:32)
  14. Call to prayer/building work (5:44)
  15. Plane deer (5:52)
  16. Snowdonia Sheep (0:54)
  17. River flow, Aled Isaf Reservoir (1:04)
  18. Dragonfly wings (1:08)
  19. Kids on holiday (2:22)
  20. Radiometer sheep 1 (2:39)
  21. ‘Certainly by September 1986’ (1:56)
  22. Radiometer, sheep 2 (3:01)
  23. Official secrets (1:05)
  24. Snowdonia woodland—Aled Isaf Reservoir (1:21)
  25. Bell practice, Easyjet, SUV (2:41)
  26. Picturesque Thaxted (1:38)
  27. Walking on landfill (0:44)
  28. Methane flow 7 (0:25)
  29. Methane flow 1 (0:15)
  30. Methane flow 31 (0:15)
  31. Methane flow 10 (0:24)
  32. Landfill atmosphere, distant (1:35)
  33. Glistening mud surface (1:22)
  34. Sea slosh in mud channels (1:20)
  35. Swallow trapped in ancient church (1:51)
  36. Bradwell beach (1:13)
  37. Bradwell nuclear power station (1:28)
  38. Dungeness nuclear power station (1:30)
  39. Sellafield winter atmosphere (1:59)