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Tuesday 13 February 2007

“Birds do it, bees do it/Even educated fleas do it”…

Whatever you’re doing on the 14th, we offer an alternative take on romance for your enjoyment: Scanner’s 2002 Valentine’s Day radio piece The Sounds of Love, featuring (in no particular order):

Bats; Albatrosses; Tungler frogs; Asian Lions; Billygoats; Mute Swans; Elephants; Puerto Rican Tree Frogs; Peacocks; Swallows; Beluga Whales; Capuchin Birds; Blue Tits; Cats; Bees; Grey Lions; Toads; Satin Bowerbirds; Grey Seals; Hammer Headed Fruit Bats; Swallow Gulls and Elephant Seals

Scanner played an awesome spatialised version of this at the recent Future of Sound launch. Find more of his works on the compendious, tremendous UbuWeb.

Enjoy.

Originally transmitted by the BBC on 13th February 2002.

Posted by Darrell Berry | Tags: animals, music, Scanner, sex, Valentines day
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Tuesday 14 February 2006

It’s The Independent’s sultry singles vs The Times’s smug marrieds this Valentine’s.

Albeit with the same layout…

Posted by Anne-Fay | Tags: demographics, print media, Valentines day
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