Thèid a’ mhuir a chruthachadh le ar guthan. Cànan an eilein agus a shluaigh. Cuimhne mic-an-duine ann an cruth-tìre; Guthan air an call; Dàn an fhearainn; Cuimhne fuaime; Imrich; Mac-talla de na tha air fhàgail.

The sea is invoked by our voices. A language of the island and its people. Human memory in terrain; Lost sound; Earth poem; Sound memory; Migration; The echo of what is left behind.

‘S e bun-bheachd airson stàladh-ealain a th’ ann an Cluas Mhara.

Lorg an neach-ealain a’ ‘chluas mhara’ - pìos slige - agus thug i oirre smaointinn air cluas agus air mac-talla cuimhne nam fuaimean a chaidh fhàgail nuair a chaidh Hiort fhalamhachadh air 29 Lùnastal 1930.



Cluas Mara is a concept piece, designed to be presented as an immersive and interactive sound installation. 

The ‘Sea Ear’, a found piece of shell, reminded me of an ear and thus echoes of sound memory left behind when St.Kilda was evacuated on the 29th of August 1930. 

Thèid an t-slige a mhòlltachadh ’s 35 dhiubh a dhèanamh (‘s e a’ chluas-mhara an 36mh dhiubh), agus sin a’ comharrachadh nan Hiortach mu dheireadh a dh’fhàg an t-eilean. Thèid na sligean mòlltaichte a chrochadh ri mullach an t-seòmair aig diofar ìrean, gus am b’ urrainn do dhaoine a dhol nam measg.

Cluinnear stàladh fuaime ri taobh nan sligean gus an luchd-amhairc/èisteachd a bhogadh ann an àrainneachd an stàlaidh.

Thèid clàraidhean de na fuaimean/mac-talla a tha air fhàgail ann - eòin-mhara, a’ mhuir, a’ ghaoth mhòr, òrain luaidh, calanas, lusan/beothaichean - a chluich ann an sreath.

The shell will be cast and replicated 35 times (the 36th being the found shell), to commemorate the last St.Kildans to leave their island. These cast shells will be hanging from the ceiling at different levels for people to interact with. 

The sound installation will be played alongside the sculptures as to create a fully immersive landscape. 

Recordings of the remaining sounds/ sound echoes; sea birds, the ocean, wailing wind, waulking songs, wool spinning, flora/ fauna, will be played consecutively.