
In 2022, The Radiophonic Institute invited everyone in the Thames Estuary region to share sounds that are important to them. With these recordings, we created a series of ambitious and adventurous multi-faceted artworks which together formed the Estuary Sound Ark.
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At its core is a new composition created by leading composer and curator Matthew Herbert using every one of the sounds submitted. The new work was publicly performed once at the Gulbenkian Theatre in Canterbury, before being archived and left untampered with in a carefully selected location for 100 years.
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The Estuary Sound Ark is the latest in a series of exciting Creative Estuary Co-commissions – an initiative which aims to showcase 60 miles of the North Kent and South Essex region as one of the UK’s most dynamic and creative areas in the whole of the UK.
Photo description: A sound recorder is pointing towards a group of young people who are looking at notes from the first Estuary Sound Ark workshop at the Historic Dockyard Chatham.