Music Declares Emergency is a group of artists, music industry professionals and organisations that stand together to declare a climate and ecological emergency and call for an immediate governmental response to protect all life on Earth. We believe in the power of music to promote the cultural change needed to create a better future.

Sam Lee plays a unique role in the British music scene. A highly inventive and original singer, folk song interpreter, passionate conservationist, song collector and successful creator of live events. Alongside his organisation, The Nest Collective, Sam has shaken up the music scene breaking boundaries between folk and contemporary music and the assumed places and ways folksong is appreciated.

Cosmo is a multi-instrumentalist musician, composer and producer from London. Wake Up Calls was created over a nine year period, using recordings of bird song featured on the red and amber lists of endangered British birds. In this Interview he talks about nature sounds from 9:20. Also watch Cosmo performing an improvised show for The Great Animal Orchestra exhibition using recordings made by American musician and soundscape ecologist, Bernie Krause.

The cover image of the 2005 album Aerial, which seems to show a mountain range at sunset reflected on the sea is in fact a waveform of a blackbird song superimposed over a glowing photograph. The second disc, subtitled A Sky of Honey, consists of a single piece of music revelling in the experience of outdoor adventures on a single summer day, beginning in the morning and ending twenty-four hours later with the next sunrise. The songs are saturated with the presence of birdsong.

To highlight Mental Health week, BBC Radio 6 Music's Chris Hawkins invited composer and multi-instrumentalist Erland Cooper to write a piece of music that highlights how music and natural sound can help our mental health. The finished track features field recordings by 6 Music listeners made whilst in lockdown.

This video explores how he made it: The making of Sounds Of Change with Erland Cooper.

Utopia is the ninth studio album by Icelandic singer-musician Björk. It was primarily produced by Björk and Venezuelan electronic record producer Arca, and released on 24 November 2017. The album features field recordings of birds and nature sounds.

The experimental ambient/noise group Tribes of Neurot released an album titled Adaptation and Survival: The Insect Project in 2002. It was a multidirectional sound experiment in which all sounds were originally produced by insects and then manipulated and synthesised.

In 2020, Hyatt under the name Field Works released a music album which combines sounds made by the Indiana bat along with music from ambient and experimental artists. Hyatt recorded the ultrasonic echolocations of the Indiana bat and then modulated the sounds in order to make the sounds audible to humans. This sound library of the Indiana bat was sent to musicians who then combined the sounds from the Indiana bat along with original music.

Mileece is a sonic artist and environmental designer who's developed the technology to give silent seedlings a portal to their own sonic expression. Mileece's background as an audiophile and programmer dovetailed to turn a garden into an organic medium for music. She pulls this off by attaching electrodes to leaves, which conduct the bio-electric emissions. The micro-voltage then gets sucked into her self-authored software, turning data into ambient melodies and harmonic frequencies.

A nightingale can be heard on Pink Floyd's Cirrus Minor, which was part of the More soundtrack.

Biomusic is a form of experimental music which deals with sounds created or performed by non-humans. One of the earliest biomusic soundscape is Beaver & Krause's 1968 Warner Brothers album (released in 1970), In a Wild Sanctuary. This is the first album on the theme of ecology and the first album to incorporate entire natural soundscapes as components of the orchestration.

ACC caught up with Mike Challis, a sound artist, microphone maker and educator. He works with sounds from the natural world and builds installations with them. He has done work for musician and producer, Brian Eno. Here he talks about building microphones for field recording.

Going out into the beautiful Irish wilderness, this video looks at how to record outside in nature. Achieve 3D audio and binaural sound by using a Sennheiser smart headset, a Zoom H3n 3d recorder, and a Rode stereo bar. This video covers what you need to prepare for a recording, what you need to think about on the day in terms of your location, what equipment you need, and professional tips on how to get the best out of your recording.

This detailed video from Martyn Stewart details recording nature sounds that include, birds, insects, frogs, toads and a multitude of mammals.

This video shows you audio equipment used for field recording, filmmaking, and vlogging covering recorders, microphones and peripherals.

ACC alumni and dubstep producer and DJ, P0gman, shows his techniques for using nature sounds in creating an original track.

This video covers field recording, creative sampling and sound design in Ableton Live. This video focuses on field recording (with iphone) and using Ableton Live and Simpler to construct percussive beats through deliberate sound design.

Felix Fleer shows you how he creates ambient music using field recordings, the Erica Synth Zen Delay, Moog Matriarch and Waldorf Pulse 2.

Ian Cairncross is a musician who incorporates field sounds into his music. This video explains some tips for field recording.

This video covers sampling Nature - Making a Beat from wildlife sounds via a ZOOM H6.

Made in Ableton Live: Eomac on designing drums and bass from field recordings. Watch Eomac sample sounds from the street on his phone to create a full-frequency sample pack, and make a driving techno track with the resulting parts.

In this video Martin Heidenreich does a walkthrough of an orchestral piece he wrote for this trip in the Sibillini Mountains surround by stunning nature in an orchestral cinematic style using Jaeger, the flagship library by Audio Imperia.

A theory of film music. Should film music be original? That's a question that goes right back to the earliest of film sound. But with new technology came changes - and just maybe, the answer to why all Marvel films seem to have forgettable music.

Creating music for film: how can music affect the emotion of a movie scene?

How to write music for wildlife documentaries with Guy Michelmore.

Graham Wild reveals his approach to creating the sound mix of the BAFTA Nominated Planet Earth II.

The Firm's label supervisor and composer Harrison Stanford shares his 5 top tips to help you get started writing TV and advert campaign music. Including ways to structure your writing process, things to watch out for in your mix and how to approach composing for TV.

In this video, Matt Beilis walks you through my thought process around producing a piece of commercial music.

Paul Thompson shares some thoughts about how to approach creating successful music for commercials.

A dive into the world of video game music. From vast, sweeping orchestral scores, to delicate ambient soundscapes, all the way to aggressive, cutting edge rock and EDM, the evolution of video game music, and the medium as a whole, has been nothing short of inspiring. We’re going to cover a broad range of topics today, acting as an introduction for our ongoing series. This is Video Game Music!

Creating video game music is a specific composing skill, with specific considerations. In this video Mike writes some game music for The Witcher 3.

Christian from Spitfire Audio shares with us how he constructs additive music for computer games.

Video Game Melodies. You know them. Even if you don't play videos games, you probably know one or two. Not only are some video game melodies catchy, they also capture the feel of the game and it's story and characters.