Listening to the stream in the Glen of The Downs

I revisited the site of a road protest - the Glen of the Downs - in 2002. I had lived there in 1997. I wanted to document this nature reserve with a major road running through it in sound, because my main memory of the place was of being awoken at 4am each morning by the crystal tones of the stream ringing out in the forest. Each day all day the traffic would drown out this sound, but it would rise in the middle of the night. I was not experienced enough as a recordist to realise when I made this recording that really I should have gone at night to recreate that sense, but for now you can get a little bit of the stream's sonic texture, even with the din of the midday traffic in the background. recorded with unknown microphone and minidisc.