Echoes from disused water tower become music for 'magical' performance

Key points

• Students in Cobar, in outback New South Wales, have created a piece of music using the echoes of a disused water tower. The structure, called the Cobar Sound Chapel, sits just outside the town.
• The music was written in a workshop with composer Jim Coyle, a Sydney Conservatorium lecturer. Students performed it with the Noise String Quartet and a didgeridoo, using sticks, stones and branches as sound sources.
• Local people and visitors, some from Victoria, attended the performance.