Acoustic Life of Zinc 2022

Following its acclaimed premier season in 2021 for Mona Foma in Hobart and Launceston, ZINC toured to The Netherlands, France and Belgium in 2022.

270 sounds were recorded in the zinc production process and used to create music. Zinc ingots became instruments, video was shot, drawings by local school students were animated, portraits of staff were taken and the audience were invited to perform percussively on an amplified zinc ingot sculpture. Acoustic Life of Zinc was a remarkable exchange between Nyrstar’s factories in Northern Europe and Australia bringing together workers, artists and school students across the globe.