‘Sounding Peace’ is a sonic memorial to peace and peacekeeping created with the assistance of veterans of the British armed forces and their families.
Bring your headphones and smartphone to experience this new art installation at Aldershot Military Museum
This new work by artist Joseph Young centres around conversations with military veterans and their experiences of peacekeeping/peace enforcement missions, and how this has affected their ideas about peace in the world.
Interviews with veterans and their families have been transcribed, edited and voiced by AI ‘actors’ to anonymise the initial responses. The assembled audio has been spatialised at the Spatial Audio Lab at University of Greenwich before being transferred to the virtual realm for geolocation, accompanied by an ambient musical soundscape and field recordings.
Taking Buckminster Fuller’s concept of the Geodesic Dome as its visual inspiration, the resulting sound sculpture consists of a multitude of voices arranged in a virtual dome or augmented audio reality environment. The sculpture will be geo-fenced in the grounds of Aldershot Military Museum, October - November 2025, using the ECHOES audio geolocation platform, and available to experience via smartphone and headphones.
Please bring your own headphones and smartphone to interact with this installation