We, the Bristol-based artist, filmmaker and producer, Simone Einfalt and the Bristol poet, writer and located audio designer Ralph Hoyte are delighted to be working with the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) on our ‘The Three Waters’ scoping study at Steart Marshes (Bridgwater Bay/Somerset/England) from early September 2025.
We are hugely excited to be part of the whole Steart Marshes project, this vast rewilding experiment which has seen historical marsh being returned to nature by deliberately breaching sea embankments, allowing the tide to cover 300 hectares of low-lying land for the first time in centuries..the left hand image shows the marshes in 2006, prior to breaching, with the right hand image from 2018, since the sea embankments have been breached.
So, um, what are we going to DO? Ah, well, first off, this is a scoping study, so we’ll have space to explore and play. Our very open brief – thank you WWT! – allows us to experiment with our artforms, tying together stories of local communities with ideas of liminality where the three waters meet: fresh water, salt water and brackish water; environments which are neither terra firma nor open sea.
We are excited to be able to learn from communities who live on and next to the marsh, diving into historical land use, social histories, wildlife (especially birdlife), local tales, and mythology (who knows who and what stalks the marshes on long, dark nights…), learning from the saltmarsh scientists who monitor this radical human-made landscape experiment, morphing the scientific data into art; listening to the echoes of Steart’s ‘Listening Station’, built to give early warning of WWII enemy bombers; making LIDAR scans and plotting cloud points; creating an interactive open-air auditorium at Steart in which wanderers equipped with a connected device will be able to author their own sonic experience; then pulling this all together to create a film and audio installation for East Quay Arts Centre in Watchet, just round and beyond the nuclear power station being built at Hinkley Point …
In all of this, we will be pulling in Ralph Hoyte’s Satsymph colleague, the illimitable Phill Phelps, for creative and tech wizardry, and hopefully, Simone’s drone man to see things literally from the birds’ eye perspective.
As we said – a scoping study, a start – who knows where the boat goes once you push it out onto the Three Waters?
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SATSYMPH is located audio designer, poet and writer Ralph Hoyte, coder, composer and audio engineer Phill Phelps, composer and visual artist Marc Yeats. We have a common interest in composing interactive, spatialised soundart and dramatised heritage scenarios accessed through the smartphone either in real-world physical environments, or ‘in armchair mode’.
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