This June, the Listening Horns had another outing at Forest of Imagination ‘Imagining the Future of the Forgotten Land’, at Entry Hill, Bath. Again, my fascination with culverted or hidden waterways came in to play. Lynn Brooke runs beneath Entry Hill which used to be a landfill site, before becoming a golf course – and is now the location for Forest of Imagination.

Using a book about Bath’s hidden streams as a guide, I traced the accessible sections of Lynn Brook around Entry Hill, following its course as it emerged and disappeared from sight while making hydrophone recordings along the way. Back at Entry Hill, I overlaid the brook’s historic route onto a contemporary map to identify where it might still be flowing underground.

I then installed eight sculptural, solar-powered speakers to create a sonic pathway through a grove of trees. Playing the underwater recordings I had gathered, the speakers invited visitors to walk the brook’s original route through sound, a kind of sonic desire line. Positioned to appear as though they were growing from the earth, the Listening Horns offered a way to reconnect with a hidden landscape and the hidden waterway flowing beneath it.

Special thanks to Penny Hay, Andrew Grant, Matthew Leece and Wayne Lindsey (and many many more) for making this happen, and to Ali Jones for helping me with the install. Some pictures below…