How does Ness Displaced work?
Ness Displaced is a sonic adaptation of the prose poem Ness by Robert MacFarlane and Stanley Donwood, composed in response to the secretive former nuclear test site, Orford Ness, now returned to nature, looked after by the National Trust.
Originating as an immersive performance of the poem on Orford Ness itself, Ness Displaced invites you to listen as you wander a natural landscape of your choosing: through a wood, up a hill, in a park, along a river, or by the sea…
Ness Displaced is no ordinary audio walk: via 150+ sonic zones triggered by GPS, what you’ll hear is shaped by your speed and the weather conditions along the UK Suffolk coastline, where Orford Ness is located, as though you were walking & listening there.
Designed for average walking pace, you follow your own path while the digital map on the app follows the path on Orford Ness. GPS triggers the sonic zones that you would hear, were you on the Ness.