The following text is excerpted from this site: The piece Forecast for Shipping examines material and spatial properties of radio transmission in BBC Radio 4's renown Shipping Forecast weather bulletin. The project employed five coordinated field recording teams following the course of a single signal over its expansive journey from Britain to mainland Europe. Recordings were taken from multiple auditory perspectives: from inside the radio studio in London's Broadcasting House; onboard a ship at sea; on-site at the transmitting antenna at Droitwich, and at its reception on transistor radios some 500 km away in three domestic settings. The work examines attractions among language, geography, radiation and precipitation, where transduced speech demarcates, occupies and territorializes dimensions of terrestrial space. The voice of Diana Speed (BBC Radio 4's newsreader and continuity announcer), on a late-night December forecast, provides the source signal that is then plumbed by a variety of microphone types (acoustic microphones with various directivity, ultrasonic microphones, contact microphones and electromagnetic induction microphones) and reworked into a ten-channel spatial audio installation. The piece Forecast for Shipping opens auditory perspectives into the inner (and outer) workings of BBC's Shipping Forecast accessing the polyphony of voices and material contexts in Britain's long-wave forecast transmissions. The following sounds, images, artifacts and reflections have been culled from the dense array of social, historical, environmental and material contexts encountered over the course of the research. This collection provides insight into the less tangible – yet latent – aspects participating in the forecast bulletin. For more information, click here.