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Welcome to the website of the


​COBAR SOUND CHAPEL


The Cobar Sound Chapel is a permanent sound art installation located in Cobar, central western New South Wales, Australia. It was completed in early 2022 and is a creation by composer and sound artist Georges Lentz in collaboration with architect Glenn Murcutt. The Cobar Sound Chapel is an intimate sound space, a marriage of music, architecture, art, poetry, light and nature. The atmosphere of the Sound Chapel changes from serene during the day, to much more intense at night. 
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Important contributors include The Noise String Quartet and Indigenous artist Sharron Ohlsen. 

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The Cobar Sound Chapel has locked gates at all times. Please ring the Great Cobar Museum  on
(+61 2) 6836 5806
to reserve and pick up the key.
Entrance to the Cobar Sound Chapel is free. However we do ask visitors to leave some
ID and a fully refundable $300 cash bond
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with the Museum staff.  This is unfortunately necessary to keep the Chapel safe in its remote location - we thank you for your understanding and apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.


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 We would like to express our gratitude to our principal sponsors
Manuka Resources
for their ongoing generous support.

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​We also wish to thank
Cobar Shire Council
 for graciously making the land available for the construction of the Cobar Sound Chapel, for their general support and for upgrading the access road to the Chapel.
In particular, we express our heartfelt thanks to the former mayor of Cobar, the late
Lilliane Brady OAM (1930-2021),
who gave the initial permission to use council land for the purposes of a new artwork.
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We acknowledge and pay our deep respects to the Ngiyampaa Wangaaypuwan people, the traditional owners of the land upon which the Cobar Sound Chapel stands.

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