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I spent the day in Miami with Jacob Collier, and I am still feeling the energy of it.

I was introduced to Jacob through the Sounds Right initiative, with the simple idea of working together for the benefit of nature. But what I witnessed was something far beyond that. His talent is extraordinary, but more than that, his curiosity and openness to the natural world felt completely genuine.

We talked about how music can reconnect people to something they have lost. Not just appreciation, but a real relationship with the living world. And I truly believe we are going to find a way to do that together.

Through this work, we helped establish something that once seemed impossible. Nature has been recognised as an artist. Hundreds of millions of streams have already followed. But this is not a novelty or a gesture. It is something real.

Artists who credit Nature are sharing their royalties. That money is going directly into biodiversity and conservation projects around the world. For the first time, the natural world is being treated not as a resource, but as a collaborator with a voice and a value.

This is only the beginning.

I hope you will continue to support The Listening Planet, because what is coming next, what we are about to create with Jacob, has the potential to move people in a way that truly matters.

Here’s a snippet of my solo set, live from Warsaw, supporting @yanntiersen on his European tour

Throughout the set, I weave the voice of audio naturalist Martyn Stewart (@mijdog) in and out of my music. Through his words, and comparisons between both of our sound recordings taken in the same locations approximately 50 years apart, we learn how much we’ve impacted the natural world, and how important it is to remember that we are a part of it. I feel so proud to have worked with Martyn and his organisation @the_listening_planet

The full 30 minute set is now available to watch on my YouTube channel - @aliceboydmusic

Thank you to @brittenpearsarts & @aceagrams for funding the development of my solo show

Thank you to @fallingtreeproductions and @bbcradio4 for commissioning the original radio documentary I made about Martyn’s work and me revisiting places he’s recorded in. You can listen to the documentary, ‘Shifting Soundscapes, on BBC Sounds

Hard to believe my grandkid, Brooklyn is now 18!!!
I bet he still takes a piss off the deck when no one is watching xxx

Happy birthday spider monkey xx

Tomorrow is Earth Day! Here’s a snippet of my solo set, live from Warsaw, supporting @yanntiersen on his European tour

Throughout the set, I weave the voice of audio naturalist Martyn Stewart (@mijdog) in and out of my music. Through his words, and comparisons between both of our sound recordings taken in the same locations approximately 50 years apart, we learn how much we’ve impacted the natural world, and how important it is to remember that we are a part of it. I feel so proud to have worked with Martyn and his organisation @the_listening_planet

The full 30 minute set is now available to watch on my YouTube channel - @aliceboydmusic

Thank you to @brittenpearsarts & @aceagrams for funding the development of my solo show

Thank you to @fallingtreeproductions and @bbcradio4 for commissioning the original radio documentary I made about Martyn’s work and me revisiting places he’s recorded in. You can listen to the documentary, ‘Shifting Soundscapes, on BBC Sounds

“I’m living with cancer. It’s — it’s hard to talk about that stuff,” says naturalist Martyn Stewart.

He says his illness is why he decided to preserve his archive of animal recordings by sharing it with rock star Stewart Copeland and turning it into the new album, “Wild Concerto.”

Musician and composer Stewart Copeland says his favorite animal sound is the hyena. He explains that they have a very wide vocabulary and make loving sounds.

“In fact, I’ll share with you that my wife and I have adopted the hyena love sounds as part of our relationships. Little kinky, but it works,” Copeland says.

Copeland teamed up with naturalist Martyn Stewart for “Wild Concerto,” an album that combines music with the sounds of animals.

“I always believe the reason I’m on this planet is to fight for the animals and the environment. And it’s kind of my rent for being here,” says naturalist Martyn Stewart.

He has spent decades traveling the world, collecting nearly 100,000 recordings of wild animals.

“Audio is the barometer of the planet. If you want to know the health of the stream or the river, the dipper will tell you, the frog will tell you the health of the marsh, and the birds will tell you the health of the planet,” Martyn Stewart says.

At home in Florida, Stewart says he takes his microphone out every day. Like a doctor with a stethoscope, he listens to the rhythm of the natural world.

Martyn Stewart has recorded 30,000 hours of wild animal sounds, including some from species now extinct in the wild, such as the golden Panamanian frog and the northern white rhino.

His recordings give no hint of the dangers he faced while capturing them. There was a howler monkey spoiling for a fight, and a crocodile that swallowed one of his microphones.

WILD CONCERTO

This Sunday, something very different airs.

For decades I’ve listened to the natural world — not just hearing it, but truly listening. Every insect, every wingbeat, every distant call tells a story.

Now, those stories meet music.

Wild Concerto blends the voices of hyenas, monkeys, owls and more with composition — not as background, but as equal performers.

This isn’t about adding nature to music.
It’s about revealing that nature has always been music.

And perhaps more importantly…
what happens when those voices begin to disappear?

📺 CBS 60 Minutes
🗓 Sunday, 7PM ET

Listen closely.
@mattaeberhard@cockroach @kirstiep30 @amandahill114 @the_listening_planet
#WildConcerto #60Minutes #NatureSound #Soundscape #Bioacoustics ListeningPlanet Biodiversity NatureIsMusic Conservation FieldRecording

This Sunday, something very special happens.

CBS 60 Minutes will air Wild Concerto with Stewart Copeland and Martyn Stewart, alongside scenes from The Listener—a film that has been built with care, belief, and a deep love for the natural world.

For over sixty years, Martyn has listened to the planet in a way few people ever have. Not as background. Not as decoration. But as something alive, expressive, and full of meaning.

His recordings don’t just capture beauty. They capture change. They reveal what is being lost. They remind us that the world is speaking all the time—if we choose to hear it.

The Listener is not just a film about a life. It is about a way of listening. A way of paying attention. A way of reconnecting with something we are in danger of forgetting.

To everyone who has supported this journey—thank you. You believed in something before it was fully visible, and that belief has carried this film forward.

I hope when you watch, you feel something shift.

Because listening is not passive.

It is a form of love.
A form of respect.
And sometimes, a form of grief.

And perhaps, just perhaps… a way back to the living world.

A bit about the making of Peerie Deuk | Pato Viajero 🐦

Featuring:
Sounds by @mijdog @the_listening_planet
Cello by @alice_in_cello_land
📸 by Will Miles

Out on bandcamp and other streaming services.

#birdmigration #newmusic #thelisteningplanet #singer-songwriter #jennysturgeon

Today is my birthday. Another year has turned, another full circle around the sun. And when I pause to reflect on what has passed since the last one, it feels almost impossible to put it all into words.

What stays with me most is not any single moment, but the simple fact that I was here to witness it. To see it unfold.

Yet I cannot remember a time in my life when the world has felt quite so unstable. The noise, the division, the uncertainty, it seems louder than ever.

A few days ago, I watched a rocket launch, rising slowly and then vanishing into the sky on its journey toward the Moon. It took me back to a story told by one of the Apollo astronauts, describing how he held up his thumb and covered the Earth, saying that everything we know, all beauty, all conflict, all life, could be hidden behind it. That perspective has never left me.

And still, everything continues.

So my wish this year is not for possessions or celebration. It is for something far more elusive.

Peace.
Respect.

A world where nature is allowed to breathe again, where flora and fauna can thrive, and where all living things can exist without fear.

That, more than anything, is what I hope for.