Cobar Sound Chapel - 24 Hour Sound Instillation by Composer Georges Lentz and Architect Glenn Murcutt in the Australian Outback

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I might have a soft spot for art instillations in remote places, especially in the desert.

Georges Lentz Cobar Sound Chapel

The Cobar Sound Chapel will be a marriage of nature, music and architecture, an immersive walk-in sound installation in the shape of an intimate 5x5x5 metre concrete cube (at first sight somewhat reminiscent of a James Turrell building), set inside the existing 10-metre-high water tank. The whole aesthetic of the Cobar Sound Chapel, with its rusty graffitied steel and exposed concrete, will feel much rawer however than the aesthetic of Turrell's work. More importantly, its purpose will be quite different - the cube functions above all as a 'MUSIC box', with the sound colouring the atmosphere of the architecture, and vice versa. String Quartet(s) will be playing each day in the middle of the day (Day Music), expanded into a 24-hour soundscape with increasingly quiet, star-dappled sounds taking over as the night approaches (Night Music).

In the Australian Outback, the Cobar Sound Chapel Quenches the Soul (NY Times)

Soundscape in a weathered water tank rocks outback NSW (Financial Review)