Sound Emergence

Sound Emergence 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

Destination #8 of This Place Meant The Grand Shaft, DoverDear friends, alongside artist Tom White, we will create a 1 h...
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

Hello friendsReposting as previous poster had a mistake, please like and share 🙏🧡Destination #7 - This Place MeantThe H...
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



Destination #4 Minster Abbey - Isle of Sheppey.
26/02/2026

Destination #4 Minster Abbey - Isle of Sheppey.

We had a brilliant first immersion at Lympne Castle last night. Deeper and lower sounds to match the winter mood. Somet...
20/02/2026

We had a brilliant first immersion at Lympne Castle last night.

Deeper and lower sounds to match the winter mood. Sometimes is about exploring further into the darker sound for the heavier feelings, and come through the other side of it. I feel like castles often hold that kind of history and presence.

Thank you for having us
See you next month
(March is sold out but April and May dates coming online the next days)



📣 Destination #6 of This Place Meant - a sound pilgrimage of Kent's heritage✨ St Martin's church, Canterbury - with gue...
19/02/2026

📣 Destination #6 of This Place Meant - a sound pilgrimage of Kent's heritage

✨ St Martin's church, Canterbury - with guest artist Anna Braithwaite

About St Martin
Part of the Canterbury World Heritage Site. St Martin’s is the oldest church in continuous use in the English-speaking world, with 1,446 years of history.

The oldest part of St Martin’s church was built during the Roman occupation of Britain. It is uncertain whether at first the building was a church, a mausoleum, or something else.

About Anna Braithwaite
✨ Anna is a composer, singer and performer based in Folkestone. Over the past ten years, working with oral histories, heritage sites and vessels has become a central part of Anna's practice. She believes that exploring the past can help people form a deeper connection with place, improving their experience of the world and providing a clearer sense of direction as they look towards the future.
Anna has presented at Chatham Historic Dockyard, Screen South, Deal festival, The Gulbenkian, Electric Medway, and performs improvised, experimental music with performance group ‘Free Women’ and the ‘Free Range Orchestra’.

Anna is currently researching at Chatham Historic Dockyard. as part of her DYCP grant from Arts Council England to explore the use of gps and beacons in creating app based, alternative, audio guides.

Event Schedule
22-03-26
1.30pm - 2.00pm – church tour
2.30pm - 3.30pm - live sound

Link to book here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/this-place-meant-destination-6-st-martin-church-canterbury-tickets-1983527464040?aff=oddtdtcreator

Join us at St Martin as we welcome the Spring 🙌🏼

Welcome to destination #5 of This Place Meant - a sound pilgrimage of Kent's heritageSet within the former Betteshanger...
18/02/2026

Welcome to destination #5 of This Place Meant - a sound pilgrimage of Kent's heritage

Set within the former Betteshanger Colliery site, this event acknowledges the fascinating history of Kent’s coalfields—once a defining force that shaped communities, culture, and the very landscape of East Kent.

The colliery and its surrounding coalfield villages were central to the lives of thousands of miners and their families, leaving a legacy that continues to resonate today.

This immersive performance will feature guest musician and composer Greg Ireland, who draws inspiration from the site’s heritage. Greg will be interviewing former miners and working with archival sound recordings to create a piece that connects the lived experiences of the coalfield with contemporary sound art.

Event Schedule
14-03-26

1pm-1.30pm – Arrival + optional museum visit (approx. 30 mins)
1.30pm-2.30pm – Live sound bath
2.30pm - 3pm - reflections and informal talk with artists

Link in bio to book

Volunteer call out!We are looking for volunteers to help us run the next events of This Place Meant on the following dat...
18/02/2026

Volunteer call out!

We are looking for volunteers to help us run the next events of This Place Meant on the following dates:

21st February: 3pm - 8pm Minster Abbey, Isle Sheppey

14th March: 12pm - 4pm Kent Mining Museum

22nd March: 12pm - 5pm St Martin church, Canterbury

17th April: 10am - 3pm The Grand Shaft, Dover

27th May: afternoon (tbc times) Rochester Cathedral

30th May: afternoon (tbc times) Reculver towers

£50 per person/ per event
(car lift available, but preference for people local to events)

Email: soundemergence@gmail.com

Please share with anyone you think might be interested

thank you

André & Sasha

Our guest collaborators at Minster Abbey - Isle of Sheppey, on the 21st February are Rosie Carr and Pedro Figueiredo (li...
02/02/2026

Our guest collaborators at Minster Abbey - Isle of Sheppey, on the 21st February are Rosie Carr and Pedro Figueiredo
(link in bio for booking)

Here is more about them

✨ Rosie Carr ✨
A multidisciplinary artist, composer and gardener based in Ramsgate.

'My work focuses on sound, plants, moving image and performance. Through socially engaged and collaborative projects I research how acts of collective joy, noise, and imagination can foster practices of care, connection and resistance in troubling times.'carr

✨ Pedro Figueiredo ✨
A musician and software developer living on the southeast coast of England.

'My work stems from a love of imperfections, repetition, and stillness; on the verge of breaking but not quite. I tend to use (and listen to) warm electronic sounds, field recordings, and tape hiss.'


First Qigong and sound immersion of the year.30th January 6.45pm - 8.30pmBooking and info in BIOGentle Qigong flow with ...
26/01/2026

First Qigong and sound immersion of the year.
30th January 6.45pm - 8.30pm
Booking and info in BIO

Gentle Qigong flow with followed by rest and sound.

SCHEDULE
Arrive: 6.30pm
Tai Chi Qigong: 6.45 - 7.30pm
Sound Bath: 7.30 - 8.20pm

👉What to expect and bring
For those not familiar with sound baths, its often a deeply relaxing, meditative sound journey you experience laying down comfortably in a shared space with others.

For some people it can feel very restful & nourishing, whilst for others an unusual exploration. More than a feel good experience, these immersions are about awareness through sound. Awareness of how our bodies and minds feel, and where do they go in the process.

Please bring a mat, blanket and pillow. If you can't bring one or more of this let me know so I can arrange.

PRICE
£20 Full price
£15 Tight budget
£10 For low income

André

First Tuesday of the month, all year round.Nestled in the Kentish countryside, this is our favourite place to hear and f...
26/01/2026

First Tuesday of the month, all year round.

Nestled in the Kentish countryside, this is our favourite place to hear and feel the season's changes.

Link in BIO for info and booking

We’re excited to announceThis Place Meant: an immersive sound pilgrimage of Kent's heritageFirst dates this winter →5 De...
31/10/2025

We’re excited to announce
This Place Meant: an immersive sound pilgrimage of Kent's heritage

First dates this winter →
5 Dec – The Church of St Mary & St Eanswythe, Folkestone
10 Dec – Maison Dieu, Dover

Following from last year’s Church & Coast tour, which brought live soundbaths to nine historic churches along the Kent shoreline, This Place Meant continues the journey inland — expanding across North and East Kent in 2025.

The project reimagines the tradition of pilgrimage through sound, exploring themes of movement, belonging, and displacement in the landscapes that shape us.

Travelling to 11 sites in the region, we are collaborating with new artists and communities, continuing to map ideas of heritage — discovering what this place meant for those before us, and what it means today.

Funded by Arts Council England and supported by Kent Downs National Landscape, English Heritage, and the Dioceses of Canterbury and Rochester, The Hot Tin, Dover District Council & Maison Dieu.

Thanks to for bringing the project to life through design, and & for production support.

Saint Eanswythe's Church, Folkestone
Maison Dieu Dover
Dover District Council
Kent Mining Museum
Rochester Cathedral
Canterbury Cathedral
Reculver Towers
Grand Shaft..

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