Ashley Elsdon: Recordings

I was about to get a train home when I heard this pianist who was just playing in the middle of the station. It was very lovely, so I recorded some of it and just paused to enjoy it.

The tram is an excellent way to get from the centre of Edinburgh out to the airport. It's cheap and quick and comfortable. Here's my journey.

I thought I'd record this piper, and kept recording as I walked away.

This was a great exhibition and the sound in the gallery was very peaceful and calm. This is what it sounded like.

I just liked the sound of this engine, so I took a short recording of it.

I was just walking by and heard this guy drumming with old pots and tins. He was great!

This is a landmark in Vancouver, so I had to make a recording of it.

I visited the gallery in July. Apart from being just a beautiful place, it has an amazing collection.

Just a lovely peaceful Sunday morning on our canal trip earlier this year.

I was lucky enough to be at the Schützenfest in Kronach last weekend and watched and recorded the parade which was like nothing else I've seen.

I was recently in Canada and travelled from Toronto to Vancouver by train. When a freight train goes by the passenger train has to stop and wait for it to pass before it can continue. This can take a while as the freight trains can be 2 miles long. This is a recording of the freight train passing by from inside the cabin.

This episode has water sounds from Wales. To be more specific from Llantwit beach. All sounds were recorded using a Zoom H2N recorder in 2016.

Some brief sounds from the East Somerset Railway as I've always liked trains.

Some sounds recorded at a National Trust building in 2016. It had a long gallery at the top of the building and the wind made a really interesting sound there.

These are a couple of field recordings from the Beyond the Border storytelling festival in 2016. The festival itself runs every 2 years, and 2016 was an excellent event. These recordings are from the end of festival procession. The picture was taken on Llantwit beach on the same weekend.