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Sound Emergence is dedicated to bridging art, contemplative practices and community through sound.

We work with groups and organisations, running regular sound baths, and site specific projects in historical sites, connecting people, heritage and sound

04/04/2026

Destination #8 The Grand Shaft, Dover

🗓️ Friday 17th April
⏳ 12.30pm - 1.00pm – arrival
1pm - 2pm - live sound

On Friday 17th April we return to Dover for an incredible opportunity to explore The Grand Shaft through sound.

A hidden secret of Dover, it was built in the late 18th century, spiralling downward through three separate staircases around a single deep shaft—linking the town above to the military barracks below during the napoleonic invasions.

Few places capture the past with such uncanny as The Grand Shaft does, and no words we write will do it justice :)

Can't wait to welcome you into the space alongside Tom White.

Please book ahead if you are planning to come to this one. Link in bio

31/03/2026

Destination #7 - with guest artist Maureen Wolloshin.

🗓️ 12th April
⏳ 12pm-1pm – Drinks, food and social
1pm - 2pm -Live sound performance
2pm - 3pm –talk and Q&A

Maureen is an oboist, improviser, composer who plays with Free Women, Noisy Women, London Improvisers Orchestra and Free Range Orchestra.

Maureen has longstanding interest in the now forgotten sonic world of the anchoress. Anchoresses were medieval religious women who voluntarily withdrew from society to live in permanent, consecrated solitude, often walled into a small cell (anchor-hold) attached to a church.

From 1464 for at least 100 years there was an anchoress living in a cell attached to Faversham’s parish church, St Mary of Charity. Pilgrims would have visited the anchoresses to pray, commune, and make offerings.

Inspred by this history, Maureen will create a sound piece which imagines and echoes the sonic world the anchoresses would have experienced, and bring it to life through her instruments, field recordings taken outside the original church window and the evolving organs and bellows of The Hot Tin.

We can't wait to play alongside Maureen in this partly homage, partly call to the present past of the anchoresses and The Hot Tin.

Link in bio to book

Photo1 - Julian of Norwich, by Ellyn Sanna
Photo2 - Depiction of a saint in front of the cell of an anchoress in The Lives of the Saints Gallus, Magnus, Otmar and Wiborada in German, 1451–60

30/03/2026

Destination #7 - The Hot Tin in Faversham

🗓️ 12th April
⏳ 12pm-1pm – Drinks, food and social
1pm - 2pm -Live sound performance
2pm - 3pm –talk and Q&A

On Sunday 12th we travel to The Hot Tin, a restored Victorian "tin church" (St Saviour’s) built in 1885. Formerly a temporary chapel for St Mary of Charity, it was deconsecrated in 1951 and served as a gym, joinery, and residential space before reopening in 2018 as a community arts venue.

If there's a place along the route that best embodies transformation through time, this is it. Run by the wonderful Mike and Romana from , it retains its importance as a community space for Faversham, with a focus on arts and music in its current form.

We can't wait to be joined by Maureen Wolloshin for a sound journey spanning medieval anchoresses to present stories (more on this in coming post).

Booking and all info in bio link.

25/03/2026

Thank you to all that joined us last Sunday as we marked the middle point of This Place Meant’s sound pilgrimage. helding this at the oldest running church in the UK felt very special.

We are grateful for our guest collaborator Anna , who brought in a powerful and thoughtful depth to our sound voyage. Especially the use of old Latin language, and the layering of a beautiful clear voice with darker, haunting whispers, very much exploring the many stories hidden in this place.

Next will be at alongside in the 12th April.
Link in bio

22/03/2026

So looking forward to today’s destination. The surprise addition of St Martins in Canterbury is a destination already proving to be rich in history and resonance. #

16/03/2026

Destination #6 - Sunday 22nd March
1.30pm - church tour
2.30pm - live sound

Christian worship has taken place at St Martin’s -tucked away on a yew-sheltered mound in Canterbury - for 1,400 years.

The oldest church in continuous use in the English speaking world and spiritual home of queen Bertha of Kent. Bertha was originally from what is now France, and legend has it she influenced her pagan husband King Ethelbert in favour of Augustine.

St Martin’s is on several of Kent’s pilgrim routes and is considered the cradle of English Christianity.

Containing more stories than an instagram post can hold, best felt in person.

15/03/2026

Thank you to everyone that joined us yesterday at the .

Felt special to have some ex miners joining us and hear their voices through work. Heartfelt moments

Next Su day 22nd March we will be at St Martin’s church in Canterbury for destination #6
Link in bio

08/03/2026

St Martins church, Canterbury
22nd March
1.30pm - 3pm

With Anna Braithwaite

06/03/2026

Destination #8 of This Place Meant
The Grand Shaft, Dover

Dear friends, alongside artist Tom White, we will create a 1 hour sound immersion exploring the history, architecture and present resonance of the Grand Shaft. A place that holds the long, conflict ridden history of our coast.

Due to the nature of the space, this will be a different experience from our usual sound baths. You are invited to move through the space, or simply remain still if that feels right for you.

About The Grand Shaft
Hidden within the cliffs of Dover, The Grand Shaft is a remarkable Napoleonic-era triple spiral staircase carved 140 feet down through the White Cliffs. Built between 1806 and 1809 to move troops quickly between the Western Heights and the town below, this unique feat of military engineering is the only triple staircase of its kind in the UK.

About guest artist Tom White
Tom White is a Ramsgate-based artist focusing predominantly on sound-based practices such as live performance, installation, recordings, composition for dance and film. He is interested in the physicality and phenomena of sound; how it can be felt by the body and experienced in architectural space.

Event Schedule
22-03-26
12.30pm - 1.00pm – arrival and wonder through the space
1pm - 2pm - live sound

Link in bio to book + info on parking, accessibility and more.
See you there 🙂

04/03/2026

This Place Meant
Destination #5 - Kent Mining Museum
With Greg Ireland

1pm museum visit
2pm live sound

Link in bio

01/03/2026

Hello friends
Reposting as previous poster had a mistake, please like and share 🙏🧡

Destination #7 - This Place Meant
The Hot Tin, Faversham
With Maureen Wolloshin

SUNDAY 12th April / / 12 - 3pm

We are really excited to be collaborating with Maureen Wollosin and Route Stock, the team behind the Hot Tin in Faversham. This time there will be home cooked food and social before live sound and a Q&A wit artists afterwards.

Event Schedule
● 12pm-1pm – Drinks, home cooked food and social
● 1pm - 2pm -Live sound performance
● 2pm- 3pm –talk and Q&A with the artists (bar open)

ABOUT GUEST ARTIST
Maureen is an oboist, improviser, composer and feministing academic. She plays with Free Women, Noisy Women, London Improvisers Orchestra and Free Range Orchestra.

THIS PROJECT
Maureen has longstanding interest in the now forgotten sonic world of the anchoress. From 1464 for at least 100 years there was an anchoress living in a cell attached to Faversham’s parish church, St Mary of Charity. Pilgrims would have visited the anchoresses to pray, commune, and make offerings

Inspred by this history, Maureen will create a sound piece which imagines and echoes the sonic world the anchoresses would have experienced.

ABOUT HOT TIN
The Hot Tin is a grassroots live music and arts venue in Faversham, set within a restored Victorian corrugated iron “tin” church on Whitstable Road.

Opened in 2018, it was created as a community-focused social hub, offering an intimate and informal setting that champions local creatives alongside global artists.

The venue is home to Routestock CIC, founded by Romana Bellinger and Mike Eden, an organisation dedicated to bringing communities together through art and music.

Link to book in bio (under This Place Meant)

See you in Faversham

26/02/2026

Destination #4 Minster Abbey - Isle of Sheppey.

Address

15 St. Michaels Street
Folkestone
CT201LL

Telephone

+447984407502

Website

https://linktr.ee/SoundEmergence

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