Rebecca Chesney

Sound:
As part of my research I make field recordings to capture the acoustic identity of a landscape and I gather sounds related to particular subjects.
I am particularly interested in the sounds of nature that are dominated and influenced by human noise.
My sound works and soundscapes have been included in a number of exhibitions, events and festivals:

Ba (collaboration with Bejan Matur) Literaturhaus NÖ, Krems an der Donau, Austria
Hear the Unheard at Salisbury Cathedral, UK
Cause and Effect at HOME Manchester, UK
The Storm TONSPUR Kunstverein Wien in the Museum Quarter in Vienna, Austria
The Storm (Chapter 2) Broadcast on Lithuanian National Radio during the 'Radijo menas' programme
The Storm Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, UK
The Storm Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall, UK
Listen Up! a city wide sound exhibition in New Delhi, India
Full of Noises Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, UK
Listening Landscapes / Landschaften Horen at Springhornhof, Germany
Someday You'll be Sorry at The Pavilion in Preston, UK
Changing Climate, Changing World at the Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, Canada
Indefinable Cities at AirSpace Gallery Stoke on Trent and Atelier Sangatsu, Osaka Japan


Above left: recording cuckoos in Dartmoor National Park 2025; above right: recording my bee hives at Yorkshire Sculpture Park 2010

I have put a small selection of short field recordings on SoundCloud
Recordings include the underwater sound of a melting glacier, approaching thunder, bees, birds, jackal and natterjack toads.