Bill Fontana, River Sounding at Somerset House 2010

Bill Fontana, River Sounding at Somerset House 2010

Fontana recorded sounds from the River Thames and created a sound installation in the underbelly of Somerset House
http://www.somersethouse.org.uk/visual-arts/bill-fontana-river-sounding

Bill Fontana: River Soundings installation at Somerset House from Sound and Music on Vimeo.

Video courtesy of SoundandMusic.org

Frieze Review

The Guardian classed it as Music in this review

"Most of the work – supported by Somerset House Trust and one of the building's resident organisations, Sound and Music – is installed in the alley-like lightwells, where the low-ranking clerks once sat looking across a metre of gloom at the coal holes opposite. Speakers now project the sound of water, ships' horns, bells and engines around these forgotten corners, while the coal holes house related film projections. It all conjures up the spirit of a passageway crammed between the warehouses of Rotherhithe or Wapping during the heyday of London's ports." -- Martin Cullingford for Gramphone.co.uk, published 15.04.10