Peninsula Sounds

2024

Funded by Developer’s Contributions for Public Art, Eastleigh Borough Council commissioned Wild Museum to build an artist-led sound archive for Bursledon, Hamble and Hound which creatively responds to the history, culture and biodiversity of the area.

Peninsula Sounds is a sonic investigation into the Hamble Peninsula. Six audio works, created by five artists across 2024, explore the area’s past, present and future. This includes seasonal wildlife, conversations with residents, historic folk songs from the area and underwater explorations.

Listen to each of the artworks and read about them here:

We have also produced a publication about the project which is available from the libraries in Bursledon, Hamble and Netley and can be viewed as a pdf here.

Please refer to the publication for a full list of thanks to all participants in the Peninsula Sounds project.

Find out more about Peninsula Sounds in our video...

Let’s meet the team…

John Coburn is the Director of Wild Museum. John is an arts and heritage producer whose work inspires diverse communities to explore and understand the multi-layered social, historical and environmental identities of place. As Director of Wild Museum he has led a range of projects supported by Arts Council England and Historic England and worked with partners including the British Library and National Trust. John also co-owns and co-manages an ancient woodland where he leads arts programmes that build public engagement with place, biodiversity and heritage.

Artist Tim Shaw works with sound, light, and communication media to create performances, installations, and site-responsive interventions. Shaw frequently presents his work at festivals, in forests, caves, warehouses, up mountains, and in museums and art galleries all over the world. He was a Senior Fellow at the Collegium Helveticum at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Zurich, and is co-curator of the Walking Festival of Sound.

Rose Ferraby is an archaeologist and artist currently based in North Yorkshire. Her work explores the relationship between people and landscape through time. She has been commissioned by the British Museum and English Heritage and her writing and broadcasting has featured on BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4, including ‘The Essay’ and ‘Open Country’.

Jennifer Reid is a researcher, musician and performer of nineteenth century dialect and Victorian broadside ballads. She completed an Advanced Diploma in Local History at Oxford University and her work has taken her to Venice, Croatia, New York and Bangladesh. Jennifer plays the character of Barb in Shane Meadows’ period drama ‘The Gallows Pole’, and she has recently supported Pulp and John Cooper Clarke.

Chris Watson's television work includes many programmes in the David Attenborough ‘Life’ series and he won BAFTAs for sound recording on ‘The Life of Birds’ in 1996 and the BBC series ‘Frozen Planet’ in 2012. He was a founding member of the influential Sheffield based experimental music group Cabaret Voltaire during the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. Since then he has developed a particular and passionate interest in recording the wildlife sounds of animals and habitats from around the world.