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Sound Matters provides a truly unique communications service for businesses and organisations who are trying to help make the world a better place. We create immersive sound experiences which are designed to help you, your clients and teams connect more effectively to the world and the processes shaping it. Through this connection, you will be better placed to address those issues that impact you, your team, your business and the planet as a whole.

04/06/2026

Soundscapes of Life is a project that began before the pandemic in the AlVelAl territory of southern Spain. Its aim was to explore the region’s soundscape and discover what these sounds can reveal about the health, resilience, and vulnerabilities of the landscape and the communities—human and more-than-human—that inhabit it.

A key part of the project involved recording local musicians and inviting them to reflect on their relationship with place through sound. We were privileged to work with some exceptional artists, capturing performances that have become part of an album to be released later this year.

We are thankful to our many partners and collaborators who made this work possible including:
.i4a

.marin.irigaray .

Thank you to all the other
musicians who have been involved in the project - you are acknowledged in our book:
‘Soundscapes of Life’ published by

Link to full video in bio.

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04/06/2026

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03/06/2026

To celebrate our soundscape regeneration work in Spain, we have created a short documentary - here we present the first instalment.

Our work in Spain has shown the importance of listening and soundscaping in projects that are geared towards finding systemic solutions to environmental, social, and economic challenges.

We are thankful to our many partners and collaborators who made this work possible including: .i4a .marin.irigaray .

Thank you to all the other musicians who have been involved in the project - you are acknowledged in our book: ‘Soundscapes of Life’ published by

Link to full video in bio.

20/05/2026

Our work on soundscape restoration in Spain led to the book ‘Soundscapes of Life!’

With our partners we developed a novel way of regenerating landscape - through sound.

We have a documentary teaser coming soon!

Link to book in bio...

17/05/2026

Today we began our ‘Listening and the Soundscape in Garden Design’ project in earnest!

Thank you Charlotte Sanderson for supporting this initiative from its inception. The first garden designer to work with us to install acoustic monitors on a design project!

We hope that through this initiative the soundscape will become a mainstream garden design parameter.

We believe improving the soundscape of gardens will have a huge beneficial impact on more-than-human, and human, wellbeing!

If you want to join us on this journey, we have a ‘Listening and the Soundscape in Garden Design’ workshop on the 25th September in Stroud. Link in bio.

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15/05/2026

Complementing the visual beauty of Hillside is a rich tapestry of soundscapes which weave together in ways that add another layer to the overall aesthetic of this wonderful setting. Hillside creates spheres of resonance which are key to understanding how we find new ways of engaging with, and solving, some of the grand challenges of our times. There is a lot to learn from this hillside…

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Soundscaping at Hillside with my new helper’Wilf’! Enjoying the visual and sonic beauty of this special garden. Thank yo...
14/05/2026

Soundscaping at Hillside with my new helper’Wilf’!

Enjoying the visual and sonic beauty of this special garden.

Thank you

01/05/2026

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A wonderful evening spent listening to this beautiful bird - the

05/04/2026

We’ve been deploying monitoring tools at a number of sites over the past couple of years.

This recording is from 7.30am this morning (5th April) - it wasn’t a particularly lovely morning but the birds thought differently!

This woodland is located about 15 miles from Gatwick Airport - not far from Forest Row in the southeast of England. We’ve put the audio from the monitor onto a video to show the type of woodland where the recording was made.

Acoustic monitoring is a wonderful tool for understanding the ‘health’ of different environments and for gauging the impact of different interventions in landscape management.

We’re looking forward to working with and as we explore soundscaping in garden design. Workshop announcement coming soon!

08/03/2026

We’re starting to develop our Soundscaping for Garden Design Project. Part of this requires experimenting with different recording protocols - in different
environments - to make sure we can apply the monitors appropriately in a garden context. We have begun a series of trials - this one near Forest Row in East Sussex.

Thanks to and for your support - and collaboration - in developing this project.
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