Cobar Sound Chapel

It is a multi-disciplinary artwork created by composer and sound artist Georges Lentz in collaboration with architect Glenn Murcutt.

The Cobar Sound Chapel consists of a five metre concrete cube with an oculus in its ceiling and with loudspeakers in its four walls, cast in situ inside a ten metre tall disused water tank from 1901, and with a pair of 5-by-5-metre entrance walls leading into the tank.

[4] Other influences of the artwork include aboriginal dot painting, the art and poetry of William Blake, the graffiti found on the tank's walls, as well as, in some parts, an exploration of AI-generated sound.

According to composer Georges Lentz, the whole Cobar Sound Chapel is music, a giant "digital string quartet",[7] and there are relationships between the proportions of the building and rhythmic patterns found in the music.

[8] The Cobar Sound Chapel, twenty years in the making, officially opened on April 2, 2022.