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Popular beat combos at the Denge sound mirrors
The Denge sound mirrors have proved to be a popular location for music videos and associated photo shoots, and are included in a new book called Rock Atlas, by David Roberts. The author has got in...
View ArticleSKEALS on the sound mirror
The Kilnsea sound mirror, described as “the only listed ‘building’ in Kilnsea“, is mentioned on The Spurn, Kilnsea and Easington Area Local Studies Group website.
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Model sound mirror for aerial wargaming
Kent-based science fiction and fantasy gaming supplier Brigade Models is producing some 1/1200 models inspired by the Denge sound mirrors. They are designed for Aeronef, a form of wargaming based on...
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Kew sound mirrors
At the weekend I went to see some new sound mirrors in a park at Kew in west London.
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2012 guided walks to the Denge sound mirrors
Following from an open day on 8 July 2012, there is a free non-booking guided walk out to the Denge sound mirrors on the afternoon of Sunday 12 August. The RMCP events are the only way to visit the...
View ArticleDenge sound mirrors video
‘Sound Mirrors’ -Denge, Dungeness, Kent. by Morgan O’Donovan Sound Mirrors explores the monumental remnants of a dead-end technology and the people who visit them. The three concrete ‘listening ears’...
View ArticleSound mirror for sale
Boulby Barns Farm is for sale, along with its sound mirror. Offers in the region of £695 000. Within the paddock is a Grade II listed Listening Post dating from around 1916 and used to detect...
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Bombing the Channel Ports
The Abbot’s Cliff sound mirror appears in the 1941 watercolour “Bombing the Channel Ports” by war artist Eric Ravilious (1903-1942). Bombing the Channel Ports© IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 1588) Compare the...
View ArticleThe Inkling on sound mirrors
Listen up: sound mirrors and the fear of flying by Patrick Sykes at The Inkling, 14 January 2013. Probably the only thing The Prodigy, Tacita Dean, and military defence enthusiasts have in common,...
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Listening Stones
Listening Stones, St. Vrain Greenway, Longmont, Colorado Granite river boulders, wood, flagstone. 1997. This sculpture uses a parabolic sound mirror carved into boulders to dramatically magnify the...
View ArticleNicki Minaj at the Denge sound mirrors
I seem to have missed this when it first came out in November 2012. Nick Minaj shoots music video in Kent!, says Kent Film Office. According to Wikipedia, “”Freedom” is a downtempo hip hop and R&B...
View ArticleSunderland sound mirror restoration
As part of the Defended Land project, Beaumont Brown Architects is undertaking conservation work to repair and present the sound mirror at Fulwell in Sunderland. It is working with Sunderland City...
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Syd Arthur’s Sound Mirror
The second album from Canterbury psych-rock quartet Syd Arthur is called Sound Mirror, and features the Abbot’s Cliff acoustic mirror on its cover. “From the tantalizing ‘Garden Of Time’ to the...
View ArticleBBC on Spurn
The Kilnsea sound mirror got a mention on the BBC website: … One legacy of the raids is the sound mirror, which still stands in a field just outside the village. The large concave concrete dish acted...
View ArticleBeen there, done that?
We have new T-Shirts! Designed by Liam and screen printed in Canterbury by @bluebirdpress http://t.co/yqSWAjcUEK pic.twitter.com/k2DJ8exmu7 — Syd Arthur (@sydarthurband) May 2, 2014
View ArticleFan Bay sound mirrors found
Exciting news: The National Trust are excavating the Fan Bay deep shelter near Dover, and “Part of the project seeks to uncover these [sound] mirrors, the survival of which would make the site...
View ArticleFan Bay sound mirror dig photos
The Nick’s Digs archaeology website has photos of the Fan Bay sound mirrors being uncovered: “It may not be unlocking the past of pre-history but as excavations go they have to be pretty special to be...
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Bombing the Channel Ports
The Abbot’s Cliff sound mirror appears in the 1941 watercolour “Bombing the Channel Ports” by war artist Eric Ravilious (1903-1942). Bombing the Channel Ports© IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 1588) Compare the...
View ArticleThe Inkling on sound mirrors
Listen up: sound mirrors and the fear of flying by Patrick Sykes at The Inkling, 14 January 2013. Probably the only thing The Prodigy, Tacita Dean, and military defence enthusiasts have in common,...
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