**Postponed**
Now showing in the Cafe Gallery, The Sound of the Sea is a research project aiming to highlight how the sea can be understood through fluid mechanics.
Join us in the Cafe on Saturday 1st August, 7pm, for a talk on the Sound of the Sea project by Dr Jack King, a Royal Society University Research Fellow in the School of Engineering at the University of Manchester.
Jack’s research focuses on the science of breaking waves:
“I find the behaviour of fluids fascinating from a scientific perspective, but also aesthetically, and I am surely not alone in this. For many, the mesmeric flickering of a fire, the babbling of a stream, or the fizz of waves lapping on a beach, will evoke strong emotions and memories. Indeed, for me it was on numerous childhood trips to the Hebrides that my interest in fluid dynamics began.”
Free and open to all, please join us to hear about Jack’s research for the development of this exhibition.
Taigh Chearsabhagh commissioned visual artist Bronwyn MacKenzie to produce new artwork for the project. The practice explores the intersection of art, science, and natural systems through drawing, sound, and technology. Created for Sound of the Sea, the drawings translate wave and environmental data from the Outer Hebrides into physical marks, revealing patterns of movement, energy, and change within the surrounding waters.
This is presented alongside The Listening Pools – an installation that uses seawater and underwater field recordings to create a direct, tactile connection between body and ocean. Specially commissioned music composed by Ollie Mills provides a soundtrack to the exhibition. Sounds of the Sea is an immersive 15-minute musical suite inspired by the stark beauty of the shorelines of the Outer Hebrides and the scientific study of the movement and breaking of waves.
The Sound of the Sea is free to visit in the Cafe Gallery, Monday to Saturday, 10am – 4pm, til 29th August. If you would like to support our continued programming and enable us to keep offering free events and exhibitions, please consider making a donation to Taigh Chearsabhagh.