Anecdotes, extracts and conjectures for listening encounters with a fading wild: presbycusis and the disappearance of audible animal atmospheres, prosthesis as a means to recover them; extinction as heard and as unheard, the wild itself reverberating as messy and entangled, rather than pure and pristine.

Angus Carlyle is a member of CRiSAP at University of the Arts London. His experimental documentaries of place have been both collaborative and individual and have involved different combinations of text, image and sound, sometimes simultaneous, sometimes separated.