Edinburgh Napier University

  900 Voices is a participative sound art project by Zoë Irvine with Lindsay Perth and Jules Rawlinson. It has been commissioned as part of Edinburgh’s St Giles Cathedral’s momentous 900th Anniversary celebrations.

900 Voices is a sound art installation made specifically for St Giles’. Throughout 2024, 900 Voices invites people in Edinburgh to have conversations about belonging, connection, and community. These conversations are recorded and shared through the artwork.

What do these terms - belonging, community, connection - mean to people from various walks of life in our city? What is important? What resonates? What is our lived experience? People have generously shared their thoughts, feelings, and reflections in the artwork’s recorded conversations.