Fathom - Jane Grant

The Fathom sound installation created a sonic surface, 6ft above the floor of in Royal William Yard, at the mouth of the River Tamar, September 2013. Fathom was commissioned by the River Tamar Project as part of the Plymouth Ocean City Festival and was featured on Nick Luscombe’s BBC 3 radio show Late Junction in 2013. The film of Fathom was featured in the It Sounds Like Art exhibition at the Kasa Galeri, Istanbul, 2014.
On entering the building, visitors were immersed in an underwater sound-environment where the minute fluctuations of the sea are heard as they moved around the space. These fluctuations were marked by waves of live and recorded sound moving across the building triggered by environmental events, the tides in confluence with the Tamar Estuary.