What gives you a sense of community, belonging?
What makes you feel connected?
Welcome to 900 Voices
900 Voices is a participative sound art project by Zoë Irvine with Lindsay Perth and Jules Rawlinson. It has been commissioned as part of Edinburgh’s St Giles Cathedral’s momentous 900th Anniversary celebrations.
900 Voices is a sound art installation made specifically for St Giles’. Throughout 2024, 900 Voices invites people in Edinburgh to have conversations about belonging, connection, and community. These conversations are recorded and shared through the artwork.
What do these terms - belonging, community, connection - mean to people from various walks of life in our city? What is important? What resonates? What is our lived experience? People have generously shared their thoughts, feelings, and reflections in the artwork’s recorded conversations.
St Giles’ Cathedral is no longer able to host 900 Voices on Wednesday afternoons. However we are delighted to announce there are two more dates to experience 900 Voices sound art installation, Friday 18 October & Saturday 19 October. Tickets are £0 - £5 and can be booked here.
During it’s run in Edinburgh International Festival, 900 VOICES in St Giles’ Cathedral had over 2200 people visit the sound work.
The 900 Voices accompanying booklet can be downloaded here.
Images from 900 Voices installation, events and community recordings can be found here
900 Voices is a conversation made of recorded conversations.
The installation in St Giles’ uses a variety of computer procedures to select, combine and place fragments of conversation in real-time, making new choices for each cycle by searching the database for words and themes. Sometimes individual words will emerge and at other times longer reflective sections allow listeners to encounter and engage with individual contributions.
