A groundbreaking wildlife soundscape experience performed after nightfall is coming to Somerset this spring.

Out Of The Darkness is an immersive audio installation taking place deep in nature at Heal Somerset, Heal Rewilding's 460-acre foundation rewilding site. It is believed to be the first time that a night soundscape of wildlife has been played to an audience in a rewilding setting.

Each performance will take the audience on a wildlife night sound journey, blending the calls, growls, snuffles and squeaks of creatures from the present with others recently lost and, thrillingly, those that would have been familiar to ancient peoples who once lived in the landscape.  

As night falls, the audience will be led by torchlight to the event space and take their seats for the 40-minute performance. They will first listen to any live night noises and then, out of the darkness, the sounds will begin.

Out Of The Darkness was developed by the Heal team in collaboration with award-winning creative director Robbie Sloan and sound designer Dan Swift, both volunteers. The event has been created as a provocation, to start a conversation about the profound changes that have happened almost imperceptibly in our countryside, raising awareness about nature loss and the benefits of rewilding to nature recovery.

Tickets can be purchased here: https://buytickets.at/healrewilding/1111416.