Sound experience from Goodison to Gloucester
SOUNDS from “sonically interesting” sites across the UK, including Goodison Park, are coming together for a unique musical experience that can only be heard in a Liverpool gallery.
The Fragmented Orchestra is an ambitious work that will enable visitors to Fact to hear in real time what is happening in 24 sites across the country linked up to the exhibition space.
The score, by artists Jane Grant, John Matthias and BAFTA winning composer and sound designer Nick Ryan, draws sounds from places including the home of Everton Football Club, a cattle market in Aberdeen and Gloucester Cathedral.
The 24 locations are connected via the internet to form a “networked cortex”, which will adapt, evolve and trigger site-specific sounds via Fact.
What people will be able to hear will be “fragmented” to represent the firing of neurons around the brain.
“We chose Fact because it is internationally renowned for its work with creative technology and it is a fantastic gallery, and because it is Capital of Culture we are really pleased to show it at Fact,” said Liverpool-born artist Jane Grant. “As an Evertonian, I was really hoping they would say yes as it is really interesting to have stadia as they have incredible amounts of sound.
“People will be able to engage with the Fragmented Orchestra on lots of different levels and that is what’s really good about it.”
The work is part of Fact’s latest exhibition, Ding Dong, which can be seen until February 22, and also includes an installation soundtracked by the first new music from Mersey electro stalwarts OMD in 13 years.






