Musician Joe Acheson tunes into Marconi hut

Joe Acheson will be capturing sounds "which are interesting or unusual"

A musician and producer is capturing sounds from the former base of radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi.

Joe Acheson will be based at The Lizard wireless station hut in Cornwall where Marconi carried out some of his radio transmission experiments.

The "interesting or unusual" sounds he gathers will be used to make music as part of the summer-long Sounds of Our Shores National Trust project.

Marconi made the first trans-Atlantic radio transmission from the Lizard.

Mr Acheson is taking up the National Trust's first ever sound residency where he is taking inspiration from the coastline over a number of days in the summer and tapping into Marconi's time in Cornwall to create a new piece of music.

'Aesthetic qualities'

Sounds of our Shores has so far seen 500 sounds uploaded to a sound map including a sea snail feeding in a rock pool and gentle waves on sand and shingle.

All of the sounds will be added to the British Library's Sound Archive.

Mr Acheson is known for the music he releases under the name, Hidden Orchestra.

He said: "I'll be recording in the day and at night along The Lizard, capturing sounds which are interesting or unusual and can be amplified by a close microphone, or simply something with an inherent pitch or rhythm that can be used in a musical way.

"While I'm staying in Marconi's historic wireless hut I'll be making recordings of things that were not intended to have aesthetic qualities, such as whirring cogs, ticking clocks and tapping Morse codes."