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Saturday Feb 18, 2023
155 Out on Cooden Beach at night - part 1 (sleep safe)
Saturday Feb 18, 2023
Saturday Feb 18, 2023
A mid-February night and you're out on an empty beach, for the cold sea air, and that feeling of wild emptiness. There's nobody about.
Past the silent hulk of a huge parked digger on caterpillar tracks, you reach a shoulder high timber groyne (a long, narrow structure built out into the water from a beach in order to prevent erosion.)
You pull yourself up and peer over, down into the gloom. The drop onto the beach beyond is too deep. But you don't turn back. Instead, you get yourself up onto the top timber beam, and sit, in a balanced position, and look out to sea.
With this bit of extra height you can really hear the width of the beach. The sea, and all the detail of its rolling waves. Their muffled thuds. their frothing crashes. The parnoramic rushing breakers that travel spatially, all the way from the far right to the far left of scene. Aural evidence of longshore drift.
Ten minutes later. Settled into the moment. Sense of time regulated not from within, but by the external passage of panoramic sound, you are still as a heron. Listening. Level and straight. Tuned deep, into the dynamic foaming of the intertidal zone.
*We captured this sound landscape photograph a few days ago whilst visiting Cooden Beach between Hastings and Eastbourne on the south coast of England. Only one aeroplane and one car are audible throughout this whole section of time, so we might be able to add Cooden Beach to Lento places with genuinely quiet horizons.
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Thank you for your lovely message. We’re so glad that Lento has been a comfort to you and you have been able to hear familiar places. We were at Cooden this week on one sunny then one drizzly day. Both beautiful! What a special place to live. Wishing you and your husband well.
Sunday Feb 19, 2023
Having ‘discovered’ your podcast last year I cannot express how helpful it’s been to me especially in long night hours whilst caring for a sick husband. Even better several episodes have been made close to my home. Today’s especially. I can see the sea at Cooden Beach across the fields from my windows. To put on headphones and hear the sea when I need to switch off and try to sleep is such a gift. Thank you so much for giving me both pleasure and peace on difficult days.
Saturday Feb 18, 2023
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