The Nightjar Project: Sound Scrapes (Sound 9)
Sound Scrapes is part of a project that takes evocative recordings of Ghanaian life and transposes them into related environments here in the New Forest. The Nightjar Project uses the bird’s migration to represent the fluid movement of people, histories, cultures and ideas between the UK and Ghana.
Kids Have Come to The River
Kwame can relate the idea of home to many places and activities that tie in social life to the forest. There is an association of listening to landscape as if it were a being. “I tell people to stop and listen as the river is speaking to us. I love to hear the children playing in the river, the laughing voices, their joy.”
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An Interesting Fact About Nightjars ​
Nightjars have been associated with death and misfortune in many folklore traditions. They are variably known as Lich Fowle, meaning "corpse bird". In Norway, The Night-raven, associated with Odin's ghostly procession of fallen warriors. In other stories The Soul-bird, where a bird carries the souls of the dead to the Underworld. In British folklore, nightjars were believed to be the souls of unbaptized children.
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