Wormit Reservoir was built in 1923 to serve the growing community on the south bank of the Tay, buried into the hillside above the village. War intervened before the population growth it was designed to anticipate, and the reservoir was eventually decommissioned.
Its sealed concrete interior, a subterranean chamber with hard parallel walls and no absorptive surfaces, produces a remarkable acoustic environment: dense, booming, with a long decay and unpredictable focal points as sound ricochets between surfaces.
The space has been used as a performance venue specifically because of its acoustic character. An impulse response was captured here as part of this project.