Standing on An Cārn Gorm (Cairngorm mountain) you can look down to the valleys in Badenoch and Strathspey revealing many bodies of water; lochs and rivers Underwater Cairngorms explores the sounds of this waterscape.
Underwater Cairngorms is funded by Creative Scotland and supported by Buglife, Nature Scot and the Cairngorms National Park Authority. Underwater Cairngorms follows on from their pilot (see Background) and is a brand new unique partnership fusing the arts and environment. It will pioneer gathering acoustic data from Badenoch and Strathspey. It is an innovative project which will engage the public with the surrounding environment through new music whilst generating novel acoustic research based on site-specific recordings.