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By the Sound of Things is an immersive audiovisual experience onboard the unique steam-powered, Mersey-built boat, the Daniel Adamson (The Danny).
 

From the deck of one of the last surviving Manchester Ship Canal tugs, the audience is invited to feel the vast echoes and epic scale of the modern shipping industry and consider the extent and impact of our insatiable consumerism on local and global environments.
 

Submerged beneath the waterline, mariners rest below deck between watches – their cradle song is the aching sounds of a ship against water. A nautical soundtrack transports wayfarers to a vast and veiled world – a subaquatic acoustical mirage. Featuring deep sea hydrophone recordings depicting the marine ecosystem disrupted by man-made ship noise, this hypnotic binaural sound work tells the story of the journey of a container as it travels from the surface to the bottom of the ocean.
 

An accompanying film focusing on the world above water presents a collision of the extraordinary and the banal that defines the image of global sea trade – an absurd narrative of ordinary things. Containers loaded and unloaded, the rhythmic motions of cranes performing an industrial-scale ballet, the transporting vessels of the global shipping industry forge sonic trails across oceans to bring us our things; the necessary and frivolous, the coveted and the disposable.

As an alternative to our By the Sound of Things cruises, tickets are on sale for a static experience of the artwork. Join us on board the Daniel Adamson, moored at Telfords Quay, Ellesmere Port for an hour-long interaction with Kate Davies' film work and sound installation.

As an alternative to our By The Sound of Things cruise, we have released tickets for a static experience of the artwork. Join us on board the Daniel Adamson, moored at Telfords Quay, Ellesmere Port for an hour-long interaction with Kate Davies' film work and sound installation.