“Found Sound (Lost At Sea) 11.1.11” is the title of a sound installation by the artist Danny Mc Carthy and has been contracted by the Crawford Gallery to sound on 11th Jan each year for the next five years. This year the work will be presented on Friday 11th Jan from 10am to 6pm during which time it will sound intermittently. It is the only permanent sound installation in a public gallery in the country.

The work was created as a result of the artist’s interest in acoustic ecology and will commemorate the loss of the sound of the foghorn from Irish Lighthouses and the Irish coast on the 11th Jan 2011 on which date they ceased to sound.

The installation consists of the sound of a foghorn which will sound intermittently throughout the city centre for the day. The work was originally presented as part of Strange Attractor exhibition/residency in the Crawford Gallery in 2011.

Danny Mc Carthy+(www.dannymccarthy.ie)