Musician and sound artist Alice Boyd retraces the steps of legendary field recordist Martyn Stewart, capturing the changing sounds of our environments.

Over 2024, Alice travels through the UK, producing and presenting a monthly episode of Found Sounds for Ffern’s podcast ‘As The Season Turns’.

Arctic Ice: Under The Midnight Sun is a collaboration between filmmaker Michelle Sanders and composer Alice Boyd. An audiovisual exploration of the beauty of Arctic ice – and the perils it faces – the film is a love letter to an ecosystem on which we all depend, one which is rapidly disappearing.

What if wildlife was given a voice? This summer at Kew’s Wakehurst you can hear ‘Voices from the Meadow’ a new audio installation amplifying the stories of our meadow creatures.

A collaboration between friends Alice Boyd and Jacob Norris. The duet uses close vocal harmony and cinematic strings to find hope in heartbreak.

Alice is a guest presenter and field recordist for BBC Countryfile Magazine’s podcast ‘The Plodcast’. Join Alice on countryside adventures, which include night walks, pond dipping, and recording seals and toads.

Alice’s TEDx talk and sound piece on the role of music, sound design and field recording in the face of ecological crisis

'Life in Cities' is Alice Boyd's fourth single. The song is a melancholic folk-inspired song, expressing a longing for something more than what city life seems to offer. 

A journey deep into Cornwall’s landscape and the metal on which our future relies. A collaboration with Laura Grace Simpkins. Commissioned by BBC Radio 4 and Falling Tree Productions.

A live performance of Alice Boyd's first EP 'From The Understory', with spoken word interludes written by Natasha Kaeda.

Over 2023, Alice travelled through the UK to record a series of Found Sounds for Ffern’s podcast ‘As The Season Turns’, hosted by nature writer Lia Leendertz.

Alice performs three of her songs from her debut EP ‘From The Understory’ at the state51 Factory.

For this sound installation at the Eden Project, Alice made handmade biosonification devices that made music with plants in realtime.

Alice releases her debut EP ‘From The Understory’, created as part of her artist residency at the Eden Project - the world’s largest indoor rainforest.

Alice releases her single ‘Symbiosis’, created as part of her artist residency at the Eden Project - the world’s largest indoor rainforest.

'Oh These Days' is Alice Boyd's second single. The song marks the spring equinox and the return of longer days in the Northern Hemisphere. Created for Ffern, a Somerset-based natural perfume maker.

Alice releases her debut single ‘Separation’, created as part of her artist residency at the Eden Project - the world’s largest indoor rainforest.

Poetry, music and freshwater science exploring the declining UK farmland pond and their extraordinary biodiversity. Alice Boyd collaborates with poet Amina Atiq to create a piece which explores species migration in the context of climate change.

Join JC Niala on a journey to understand how plants can provide a lens on human health, history and belonging. Composition and sound design by Alice Boyd.

An interactive online experience, which invites audiences to restore a virtual forest to health by creating a balanced ecosystem. Created by Alice Boyd and Tom Halliwell, with support from the Eden Project and Sound and Music.

A live streamed immersive digital experience with the aim of connecting audiences with natural world. Featuring Alice’s music created after an artist residency at the Eden Project. Supported by the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).

Audio lead and original music for Poltergeist’s new audio walk in the City of London, featuring all-star cast, led by Juliet Stevenson. Also starring Adam Buxton, Lydia West, Paterson Joseph, Tanya Reynolds, Nina Wadia and David Mumeni. One of the Guardian’s top 25 Christmas shows for 2021.

An audio piece in collaboration with non-fiction writer Laura Grace Simpkins, about her experience with lithium, prescribed to manage symptoms of bipolar disorder. Commissioned by the Wellcome Collection.

A short audiovisual piece about loneliness in the city of London.

An audio piece in collaboration with non-fiction writer Laura Grace Simpkins, about the environmental impacts of lithium mining for lithium carbonate, a medication used to treat bipolar disorder. Selected for Louder Than The Storm’s climate intersectionality exhibition and Glasgow-based art radio channel Radiophrenia 2020.

‘Crisis’ is an audiovisual piece by Alice Boyd, in collaboration with filmmaker James Frederick Barrett. The piece was shortlisted for #CreateCOP25, a competition for the UN’s COP25 Climate Conference in Madrid, 2019.