Sonic Journeys are soundtracks to specific journeys. Each commissioned piece is available as a free download for limited periods, enabling listeners to experience the music travelling through the landscape that inspired it. Or wherever they choose.

Read on to discover the latest commission by composer Gavin Bryars and poet Blake Morrison commissioned as part of Yorkshire Festival 2016. Plus how to create and upload your own Sonic Journey for others to enjoy↘

Latest commissioned
journey

Gavin Bryars + Blake Morrison
Goole → Hull

1 May - 1 July 2017
Part of Hull2017

Two of Yorkshire’s most renowned artists, composer Gavin Bryars and poet Blake Morrison, create a new work inspired by the train journey from Goole (Bryars’ birthplace) to Hull.

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#4
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#3
South Devon, stopping train from Starcross
2011
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LATEST NEWS

Blake Morrison, Gavin Bryars + binaural microphone at National Theatre

28.06.16
BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE RECORDING SESSION

See behind the scenes pics from The Stopping Train recording at National Theatre, London
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The Stopping Train score

28.06.16
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH GAVIN BRYARS AND BLAKE MORRISON

Get an insight into the making of The Stopping Train with this special interview
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Your
sonic journeys

If there's a journey you love, why not create a piece of music inspired by it? Check out others below. Find out how to get involved here.

LATEST JOURNEY

PIMLICO STATION → WESTMINSTER KINGSWAY COLLEGE

by CAMERON
10 February 2020

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Journeys

Sonic Journey
Pimlico Station
2020
THE ALCHEMY OF A SMOOTHING FROWN
BUDE
2019
LV21 Fantasia
LV21 (The Red Lightship)
2019
A Journey to Calabria
Dartford
2019
Longshore Drift
Whitby
2018
CROWD
Stepney Green
2018
Walking through Peckham
Peckham Library
2017
Looking for Less
Horsham
2016
Voices of Teesside
EPAX Pharma UK Ltd.
2016
Dead Poets
Central Park, Manhattan
2012
The Singing Wires of Point Reyes
Point Reyes
2012
Not Silent
St Peters chapel, Castle St
2012
Graininess and Sheen
Handel House Museum
2012
The Lip of Chaos
East London
2012
ELECTRO+ (Orăștie)
Orăștie, Romania
2012

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How to create your
sonic journeys

1

Choose your
journey

2

Compose a piece
of music

3

Take pictures
and video

4

Upload for
others to share

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