Whitstable

Steve Mc Pherson's artwork

 

Title Lost-Song
Artist Steve Mc Pherson
Date 20th June
Location Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable beach, Horsebridge road
Category Visual and Sound Arts

Digital technologies have made most marine fog warning signals obsolete, yet for a day at the festival these sounds will return.

Installed at the Cultural Baton site, a small group of fog horns created with recycled materials and powered by hand will sit silent, until  audience participation powers their sound and returns their lost songs.

Combined they will form a long conversation, a chorus, and signal noise last heard on the north Kent coast in the mid 1980's.