COMMISSION: Environment Agency

Hazel Reeves – an independent sound artist – has collaborated with the Environment Agency, to create an evocative, immersive soundscape with and without music that brings the future landscape of Thorney Island to life.

As you’re led along its coastal path, you’ll hear how the landscape may sound as it evolves into thriving coastal saltmarsh and mudflats. Listen out for the rich variety of wildlife and bird species that will make this habitat their home.

This unique audio experience offers a glimpse into the future of the landscape and the diverse natural communities it will support. Alongside these sounds of nature are the familiar, sometimes eerie sounds of human activity, from marina rigging to military operations and aircraft passing overhead.

Hazel Reeves is an award-winning artist who sculpts with sound, weaving field recordings into immersive soundscapes that tell stories of place, wildlife and ecological change. Her work invites audiences to listen more closely and engage more deeply with the natural world by discovering the unexpected voices of a landscape.

The Thorney Island Habitat Creation Project

This project is helping to secure the future of Thorney Island by improving flood resilience and creating new habitats for wildlife. Working in partnership, the Environment Agency, Ministry of Defence and Chichester Harbour Conservancy are developing a managed realignment scheme that will restore valuable saltmarsh and mudflat habitats. A new setback flood defence and rerouted footpath will help protect the local community, military barracks and coastline from rising sea levels. Together, these changes will create a more resilient landscape for both people and wildlife.

Find out about this Habitat Creation Project:
https://engageenvironmentagency.uk.engagementhq.com/thorney-island-habitat-creation-project