Open 12am-5:30pm
Wed-Sun, 30 Aug-7 Sep 2025
The piece will be shown every half hour from 12.05am - 5.05pm, and lasts about 20 minutes.
Please arrive at the exhibition reception desk (in the lower ground floor of the Glassworks building - follow signs for REVEAL) to be escorted to the exhibit.
The deep and peaceful quiet of Lossenham is instantly apparent as you walk the fields - the wide, green vistas bordered by tranquil waterways, offering their own calm comfort with swans serenely gliding by. The history of spiritual devotion, the ancientness of the trees and castle tolls, the cyclical rhythm of farming, the regenerated reed beds, copses, meadows and waterways, make this landscape feel unique; it's special and very appealing - rich as it is in buried stories.
The Soundscape is an impressionistic patchwork made up of the sounds of the archaeological dig of a 13th Century Carmelite Priory, the fields, the animals and birds, the busy villages, the farm machinery, the church, the hooting single track steam train, the pub's gossip, the nearby market, the imagined chatter of the past, the ghostly voices of the Carmelites, their echoing plainsong, their liturgical chants - and the people, past and present, involved in creating it all…
With a team of experienced interviewers, Carole Hayman talked to and recorded the stories and views of upwards of 30 people, all living on and working the land and surrounding villages. The result is a richly immersive narrative of countryside views, politics, attitudes and histories.
