Sounding Water
An unfolding durational gathering of sound, image, and voice at PINK in Stockport (17–19 October 2025), created in collaboration by Fiona Brehony, Aisling Davis, Lizzie King, and Hayley Suviste. Sounding Water explores how we might engage with the agency of water to surface and liberate the layered histories of the places we inhabit.Performance
A sold-out evening of live performance that interwove the artists’ field recordings, archival traces, spoken word, and moving image into a fluid, multi-channel environment, inviting listeners to drift along the currents of memory and place. Live multi-channel mixing by Emmy Lambert.
Installation & Workshops
Over the weekend, visitors engaged with the Sounding Water installation through interactive listening, creative writing and drawing, and playful sound-making activities with water. The programme featured a deep listening workshop on Saturday and concluded with a relaxed listening party and conversations with the artists on Sunday.
Digital Release & Publication
We have released Sounding Water as a publication with digital audio download, including a binaural mix of the live performance. Featuring four ten page books in a soft wrap cover, this handmade book shows field work documentation from each of out four artistic practices. The photography sitting side by side encourages a conversation between the images in a parallel way to the sound. Availible to purchase for £10 via Bandcamp.
〰 King’s Kersal Wetlands - considering the man-made flood defences and its multi-species inhabitants, including the water boatman.
〰 Brehony’s River Irk - the hum of water-based paint machines threaded through fabric of a river, textured traces of industry and renewal along its banks. Protest, dance, and the call of an early morning rooster.
〰 Suviste’s bogs and mosses of Delamere Forest - deep within the restored wetlands, the air crackles, pops, and gurgles with the sounds of life returning to the ancient bogs and mosses - lands that humans drained and degraded over the course of a century.
〰 Davis’ Quantum Lake - recorded under 24-hour Arctic sunlight, where meltwaters meet long-term lemming studies. Molecular echoes, original scores, and field samples reflect on solitude, perception