Location: Village Green, Woodcote, Oxfordshire, UK
Date: 18th September 2020
Time: 08:57 – 09:12
Weather: Sunny, with a moderate breeze
Temperature: 15oC
Average Sound Level: 53.6dBSPL (LAeq)
Tag: Woodcote Village Green
Location: Village Green, Woodcote, Oxfordshire, UK
Date: 16th September 2020
Time: 08:54 – 09:09
Weather: Sunny, largely clear skies with a gentle breeze
Temperature: 17oC
Average Sound Level: 48.9dBSPL (LAeq15)
Location: Village Green, Woodcote, Oxfordshire, UK
Date: 25th May 2020
Time: 09:04 – 09:19
Weather: Sunny with a light wind
Temperature: 18oC
Average Sound Level: 40.1dBSPL (LAeq)
Location: Village Green, Woodcote, Oxfordshire, UK
Date: 21st May 2020
Time: 09:01– 09:16
Weather: Sunny, light cloud with a moderate breeze
Temperature: 18oC
Average Sound Level: 49.0dBSPL (LAeq)
The roads enclosing two sides of the village green are mapped by the friction-sound of rubber, aggregate and asphalt. The cyclic explosions of older diesel engines escape from clapped-out trucks. Loose metal rattles on trailers, vans and a cement mixer lorry. The persistent pulse of a reversing alarm. The distant clatter of weighty building materials tumbling on to concrete, separating, tacking through buildings to my ears, creating a stuttered delay. The low grumbling roar of a vintage motorcycle dominates the soundscape temporarily, other sounds dwarfed by its draw on my attention. Beneath the distinguishable sound streams of synthetic materials moved by oil, lies that hum of movement, faint and indistinct, the omnipresent rumble of commutes, community and commerce from the A4074. It is a sound so familiar and forgettable, that you would mistake it for the tumbling rotation of the earth itself.