Six people in vintage-style clothing pose dramatically around a green sign reading The National Institute for Sonic Ecology. Some hold large musical instruments and look expressive, while a white tent is visible in the background.Six people in vintage-style clothing pose dramatically around a green sign reading The National Institute for Sonic Ecology. Some hold large musical instruments and look expressive, while a white tent is visible in the background.

Ear Trumpet

Category: Show Related artist: Gobbledegook Theatre

Ear Trumpet is about listening. It’s about the sound
under the ground. The noises that you would miss if you
didn’t listen for them.

A team of sonic investigators have managed to track an
exceptional auditory occurrence, which they have discovered,
runs under the ground. Eons worth of sound, both ancient
and modern, is harmonically bound together, trapped inside
our ancient rocks. Occasionally these sounds bubble up and erupt

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Show Details

  • Date Created: 2014
  • Length: 2 x 2 hours
  • Performance area: Ear Trumpet can only be performed on diggable grassland. The area required is 50 square metres min.
  • Approx. get-in / get out: Get-in = 1 day/get out = 4 hours
  • Number. of people on road: 5
  • Workshops available: Yes
  • Access facilities: Multisensory Workshops, Wheelchair access, Relaxed performances
  • Scale: Medium scale
  • Capacity: 500-2000
  • Availability: Yes, ready for touring
  • Language: English
  • Audience type: All audiences, all ages

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Ear Trumpet by Gobbledegook Theatre