Using the former site of the Stockport Power Station as inspiration, Electric Echoes explores ideas of decolonial cleaning – the practice of care, repair and re-attunement. Demolished in 1981, the Power Station site is now overgrown, with new life reclaiming the land. Yet beneath the surface, a network of underground water tunnels and other remnants of the Power Station’s industrial past continue to shape the river and the life it sustains.
During the SoundWalk you’ll move through the town’s post-industrial edges, on walkways where tunnels run beneath, and along the site of the former Stockport Power Station where the river and the town meet. Using your mobile phone and the Echoes app, you’ll experience immersive sound compositions created in response to each location – industrial drones, electrical surges, underground reverberations, and the shifting rhythms of the river itself.
Each composition invites you to listen into layers of time, place, and the more-than-human, offering a closer glimpse of what endures and regenerates along the waterways, and to consider listening itself as an act of care.
After the 60 minute guided walk, you’re invited to join Maya afterwards for a Q&A, where you’ll have the opportunity to ask any questions about the SoundWalk, the installation, or the themes and histories explored through the piece.
