Experience a unique sound and poetry performance inspired by the Roman Baths.
A Sound Map of the Roman Baths brings together poetry, music improvisation, and field recordings inspired by the site’s extraordinary history and geothermal hot springs. Created by composer Chris Cundy and featuring poet Adam Horovitz, the sound map will reveal human voices and sounds that have inhabited this place for thousands of years.
This immersive live performance beside the Great Bath will feature world class musicians Angharad Davies (violin), Bruno Guastalla (cello & electronics), Emi Watanabe (Japanese flutes), Mark Sanders (percussion) and Chris Cundy (bass clarinet), plus the state-of-the-art IKO spatial speaker system. Listening closely to subterranean frequencies and gathering insights from our experts and historians, Chris, Adam and the musicians will present the voices of the hot spring and the goddess Sulis Minerva herself, through a process of conjecture, curiosity and sonic intervention.
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