Exhibition invited you to listen to battle between River Goyt and former Stockport Power Station

This sonic argument unfolds across two sites. At the first, located in the Air Raid shelters, you are invited to activate the installation – a network of industrial pipes – and listen to echoes of Stockport’s power station dominate the airwaves – sonic textures of industrial drones, electrical surges, reverberations of underground tunnels, and the discordant rhythms of the river as it was heated and contracted. At the second site, Stockport town centre, a SoundWalk guides you through the town’s post-industrial edges, above the path of the tunnels, and along the site of the former Stockport Power Station where the river and the town meet.

Drawing on ideas of decolonial cleaning – practices of care, repair and re-attunement – the sound installation and SoundWalk are a means to listen to the echoes of the power station and the voices of the river, including the lives it has sustained through eons.

Composed by Maya Chowdhry with support from Stockport community members, the sound installation will be on display at the Stockport Air Raid Shelters from 20th February to 22nd March. The accompanying SoundWalk will also be available during this period via the Echoes app.