A link from Favejet led me to Earth.fm which had me looking for bog soundscapes. Which led me to this page with this intriguing text:
"Look carefully: among the plants and flowers on either side of the path, strangely shaped speakers have sprung up, resembling the bogbean plants that grow in peat bogs. From them come Kathy Hinde’s Deep Listening Soundscapes, compositions based around sounds recorded below the surface of the Flow Country by submerged microphones called hydrophones"
The Flow Country! And that leads to these photos and sounds and the phrase "bog bean resonator". Which is a winner.
"The first series of ‘Deep Listening Soundscapes” are composed from underwater sound recordings from bog pools and lochs of the Flow Country and also by sinking special microphones deep into the water logged blanket bog, into layers of peat that took thousands of years to form; almost like listening back in time. These soundscapes were played back through sculptural forms (inspired by the ‘bog bean’ plant, found sprouting up from bog pools"
This reminds me of the experiments with time lapse that James describes in Ways of Being. And someone he quotes:
"Writing in 1935 about his early experiments with time-lapse cinematography, the French film-maker Jean Epstein summed up the experience of watching natural processes unfold at other-than-natural speed: ‘Slow motion and fast motion reveal a world where the kingdoms of nature know no boundaries. Everything is alive. A surprising animism is being reborn. We know now, because we have seen them, that we are surrounded by inhuman existences."
Everything is alive. The apparent stillness of the bog is overturned by the gurgling, blooping and wooshing of its depths.