Sam Lee’s ‘Singing with Nightingales’ installation
LOCATION: Top Floor, Therapy Room
TIME: every 30 mins from 10:30 (last showing begins at 16:00)
Let folk singer and naturalist Sam Lee and Axel Wild, nature-sound-recordist and spatial audio maestro, take you on a narrated journey into the many worlds of the rarest of birds.
For millennia, the Nightingale has been a cultural, folkloric, poetic and mythic icon whose nightsong has enchanted bards and artists alike. Discover the extraordinary lifecycle and character of this most forgotten of singers through exquisite surround sound field and ethnographic recordings coupled with tales of our human relationship to the land as channelled through this now critically endangered species.
The in-forest version of Singing With Nightingales runs from April to June in woods in Sussex and Bedfordshire.
Biog
Mercury Prize–nominated folk singer, conservationist, song collector, and activist Sam Lee is a passionate environmental advocate and storyteller. His debut book The Nightingale: Notes on a Songbird (2021) traces the deep cultural and ecological significance of one of Britain’s most beloved but endangered species. A regular voice on radio, television, and film soundtracks, Sam also drives change within the industry as co-founder of Music Declares Emergency, a Featured Artists Coalition board member, and a collaborator with EarthPercent, donating proceeds from his work to support climate action.