Can you keep the silver sphere "happy" as it follows the right path?
In return, the sphere will lead you on a journey through waves of sound, guiding you to a mysterious final destination...

Congregation is a groundbreaking outdoor immersive sound art performance co-created by renowned British sound installation artist Ray Lee and the international arts collective Tempest Projects. This new version invites you to engage in a dynamic interplay of space and sound, where a sonic sphere guides you to a secret destination, with music as your only compass.

The sphere, seemingly endowed with its own consciousness, accompanies and directs you through familiar and unfamiliar spaces alike. As you hold the awakened silver sphere delicately in your hands, it will use sounds of “joy,” “sorrow,” and even “anger” to steer you in the right direction.

Can you keep the sphere “happy” as you journey along the correct path? In return, the sphere will lead you on an auditory adventure, ultimately guiding you to a mysterious destination. There, each individual sphere will converge, collectively creating a resonant symphony of unity and harmony.

Ray Lee is an award-winning sound artist and composer. He creates spinning, whirling, and pendulous sound installations and performances that explore his fascination with “circles of ether,” the invisible forces that surround us. 

His immersive and mesmerising works such as the worldwide hit kinetic sound installation/ performance/ composition Siren, the Ethometric Museum (winner of the 2012 British Composer of the Year for Sonic Art) and his monumental outdoor works Chorus 2013 and Ring Out 2017 aim to make sound art accessible and engaging for a wide audience. Force Field was awarded an honorary mention in the 2008 Prix Ars Electronica. His innovative participatory work Congregation for 100 interactive sonic spheres has toured internationally since 2019. In 2021 his monumental installation/performance project Points of Departure was premiered at Shoreham Port for the Brighton Festival. He also works part-time as Professor of Sound Art at Oxford Brookes University.