"Sound mirrors are no longer a failed technology. They are art." https://t.co/cNQixCkKxD pic.twitter.com/2gbC02lJ4T
— theQuietus (@theQuietus) July 11, 2016
The mirrors’ fruitlessness may be forgiven if only because of the uncanny impression one gets that they were built for a future not yet seen or understood. Indeed, its second life as a monument and relic has been more enduring than its first.
Christo Hall visits the sound mirrors on the Kent coast with photographer Stuart Leech and “finds an obscure functionalism melting into majestic land art”, in The Second Life Of Concrete: Brutalism’s Renaissance, published by The Quietus on 10 July 2016.