Frozen pool, London, UK on the morning of 4th January 2026 – by Rose de Larrabeiti and Eleanor McDowall

“At the beginning of the year the ponds in the park near where we live froze over. One morning we took a hydrophone to a shallow, frozen reflecting pool – pushing the microphone through a hole in the ice. You can hear tinkling fragments, squeaky creaks and the sound of us taking turns to throw large blocks of ice across the frozen surface. Next to us a little boy was having fun smashing a tree branch into the pool, so we gave him the headphones and told him to make a bit of chaos…”

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Frozen pool, London, UK on the morning of 4th January 2026 – by Rose de Larrabeiti and Eleanor McDowall is an episode from Field Recordings by Field Recordings.

This episode is 4:32 long.

This episode was published on Mar 11, 2026.

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