TRAFFORD will be the focus of a unique project next weekend – bringing art for the ears not the eyes to the people of Manchester.

Over the past few months, groups of Trafford ‘Soundexplorers’, equipped with handheld audio recorders, have been capturing unusual sounds and interesting noises from everyday urban life.

The sounds have been compiled for an audio project being led by Trafford Community organisation Blue SCI Support titled ‘The Corridor’.

It has been chosen as one of the headline artworks at digital arts festival FutureEverything, taking place at various venues across Manchester from March 30 to April 2.

‘Soundexplorer’ Lucy Nyland, from Stretford, said: “Being able to get our microphone into all the nooks and crannies of Manchester has been really fun.

“We have been discovering a hidden soundscape of a place which has been so familiar to me, and this has inspired me to hear the world differently.

“It’s also fantastic that recordings created by myself and others are going to be part of the FutureEverything festival, which is world renowned for digital culture and technological innovation.”

Having captured the city’s hidden soundtracks, including underwater recordings from the Bridgewater Canal, the recordings were then remixed and reworked at Seed Studios, in Old Trafford, resulting in a series of eerie and atmospheric sound clips.

During FutureEverything, these ‘sonic’ poems will be made to download – and the public will be encouraged to listen to them on their mobile or tablet, ideally where they were originally recorded.

Artist and musician Andrew Hodson, who recruited volunteers for the ‘found sound’ project, said: “We hope that by downloading the recordings people will discover Manchester’s secret soundscapes and that it might make them think differently about our urban environment.”

For more information, visit bluesci.org.uk/art/the-corridor