The Voyage of The Gongoozler

room 9 ECHOES

Location: Coventry, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom

This is a free soundwalk which starts in the Coventry Canal Basin and follows the tow path all the way to Sutton Stop. The full walk takes about 2.5 hours but feel free to do it in sections!

See the route on Google Maps: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/1/edit?mid=1Gtqwbdx8uoRZd209wikPKGTFoDuMvYZv&usp=sharing

About The Voyage of The Gongoozler:

Part canal boat, part time machine, part concept album, THE GONGOOZLER set sail along the waterways of Coventry, uncovering a brand new mythology for the city.

Its brave crew, the troubador-balladeers of Janus Sonic Travels have chronicled the strange and wonderful things they found along the way.

Hark to the sound of the records they made, and read more about the stories they uncovered below...

Witness the fair ship herself docked in Coventry Canal Basin from 11th-14th November in the Earth Year 2021 as part of the wondrous Random String Festival.

https://www.randomstring.co/

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Prologue

Greetings people of the Earth Year 2021. We are Janus Sonic Travels, collectors of sonic curiosities…

Cissa, Rubbish Collector

CISSA is a goddess who picks up discarded objects from the canal in her net, in an act of harmless t…

The Carriers

Based at the bridge between The Other Place and The Here, THE CARRIERS are bird-gods who ferry the s…

The Bombyx

A mysterious Holy Man from the East risked his life to smuggle mulberry seeds into the wasteland, wh…

A Portal Appears

The Wasteland (Bombyx Refrain)

A mysterious Holy Man from the East risked his life to smuggle mulberry seeds into the wasteland, wh…

Goddess Ooilith

OOILITH is an immortal warrior/builder goddess who has mastery over concrete. She has chosen to help…

The Ailm Forest

The AILM trees grow at the very centre of the earth. They have long and tangled roots, but above gro…

Epilogue

And so the brave Gongoozler sailed on, through past, present and future, searching for Cofa’s Tree a…

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