What do 16,000 water bottles,
fibre optics and the music of many
nations have in common?
They form an installation known as “WaterTowers”, a work based on Munro’s interest in
synaesthesia (seeing sound in colour). First
created for Salisbury Cathedral in 2010, the
installation consists of 69 towers, two metres
tall, made from over 200 stacked water bottles
and illuminated by optic fibres that change
colour in response to the music emanating from
within them. https://vimeo.com/35004105
What links the sea and used CDs?
CDSea from 2010 is an innovative use of recycled
material inspired by an incident from his time
in Australia. One Sunday afternoon sitting on a
rocky peninsula at Nielsen Park, a beautiful Sydney
Harbour beach, he remembers “…the light was
still strong, like a blanket of shimmering silver
light. I had this childish notion that by putting
my hand in the sea I was somehow connected
to my father’s home in Salcombe, Devon.”
Years later he recreated that feeling in the
field next to his home in Wiltshire, playing
with natural light reflected off a sea of silver
CDs. However if this work inspires you, you
may need to start with a more moderate
design, this one involved 600,000 used CDs,
140 people and took 3 weeks to install.
Bruce Munro, CDSea at Long Knoll, Wiltshire 2010
https://vimeo.com/34894008