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Session Two | 4:00 - 5:00PM

Sounding the Farm is an environmental sound installation by Zemzemeh, created from recordings gathered on farms in Doon Doon and across the Tweed region. Cattle calls, birdsong, insects, gates, footsteps, wind, water, machinery, and the subtle pulse of daily labour are reimagined through spatial audio, looping, layering, live Persian instruments, and electro-acoustic transformation.

Presented through a multi-speaker system surrounding the audience, the work invites listeners to sit or lie down, close their eyes, and enter an acoustic landscape where distance, movement, memory, and place are carried by sound. Moments of realism dissolve into abstraction; the familiar becomes musical, intimate, and strange.

Often seen but rarely listened to, farmland holds a rich sonic ecology. Sounding the Farm reveals these hidden textures, asking us to hear rural life not as background, but as a living conversation between humans, animals, weather, and earth.

This is a FREE event with registrations essential. Sounding The Farm requires a quiet audience, so please be mindful when booking tickets for young children.

If you can no longer attend, we ask that you please cancel your ticket via the confirmation email.

Schedule:

Registrations open at 3:30pm
Doors will close at 3:55pm
Late arrivals will unfortunately miss out!
Session followed by a Q&A with the artists
5:00pm close (followed by Poets Out Loud)

Contact the host of LAVA presents Sounding The Farm with Zemzemeh [Session 2]