Listen to the track:
The Rhythms of Wembury
Built from the real-life sounds and rhythms of Wembury, this track transforms the village’s unique “natural frequencies” into music — from the slow sweep of the radar and the flash of the Eddystone Lighthouse to the drip after rain, the ferry’s propeller, and the calls of local birds. Each sound’s frequency was scaled, layered, and arranged into an evolving composition using the equation
attempting to blend the pulse of the coast, the heartbeat of the village, and the voices of land, sea, and sky into one rhythm. I then, perhaps rather eccentrically, decided to set it all to a banging dance beat!
Verse 1
From the turning of the radar to the beating of the waves
From the lighthouse in the distance to the ferry’s steady sway
Every call of every bird, every step along the track
We’ve caught them, scaled them, turned them, and we brought their voices back
Chorus
These are the rhythms of Wembury
Songs that the coastline knows
From the tide’s slow pulse to the old church bell
Where the sea wind always blows
We’ve tuned the heart of Wembury
From the sea to the bright blue sky
These are the rhythms of Wembury
And they’ll sing for you and I
Verse 2
From the drip after rain to the hum of the old farm’s gear
From the footsteps on the cliff path to the gulls that circle near
Every sound we took and wove into a beating, living tone
A map of all the moments that this village calls its own
Chorus
These are the rhythms of Wembury
Songs that the coastline knows
From the tide’s slow pulse to the old church bell
Where the sea wind always blows
We’ve tuned the heart of Wembury
From the sea to the bright blue sky
These are the rhythms of Wembury
And they’ll sing for you and I
Bridge
Some are slow as the bus that winds in
Some are high like the robin’s thin cry
Some are hidden in the night’s soft wind
But all still sing for you and I
Outro
From the radar to the river, from the farmland to the bay
We’ve played the song of Wembury, and it’s still playing today