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This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

Often when I make music, I think it's important to try and set it somewhere. There has to happen somewhere as opposed to just floating in abstract space.

So often songs will kind of emerge from field recordings

or I'll be trying to capture the feeling of a particular ecosystem of place, maybe.

That's musician and composer Cosmo Sheldrake.

Cosmo is an absolute wizard at collecting sounds from the world around him

and incorporating them into his music making, including bird song, soil and even mushrooms.

He's also an activist and credits nature as a co-creator of his work,

shining alight on the growing rites of nature movement across the world.

I'm Helen Needham and I went to meet Cosmo in his garden in Gloucestershire where we discussed his music, some cutting-edge research involving AI in sperm whales, and how contemporary ecology informs his view of the world.

It started off just kind of thinking about sampling and as a way of audio journaling, really.

But then I got really interested in acoustic ecology and kind of like snakes and ladders.

I found myself on a slippery slope and then just got really interested in as opposed to individual sounds,

the way they all fit together and the whole soundscape is kind of, you you know complex conversation across many different species.

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