Next week the National Maritime Museum Cornwall will be unveiling a one-off conceptual musical art piece in its underwater viewing gallery.

On Saturday September 22, the Maritime Museum in Falmouth will be introducing the brand new musical composition, Singing Ringing Buoy. It links a sound sculpture anchored outside the Museum to a surround-sound installation in the underwater Tidal Zone.

Designed by artist Craig Vear, Singing Ringing Buoy uses a combination of current technology, real-time computer music arrangement, and a live digital arts installation, to create a sonic interpretation of the weather and sea. Although this will be the first time it has been publicly installed and on show, it was shortlisted for the 2005 PRS New Music Award.

Craig Vear is a composer and musician. Since the early 90s he has worked in electro-acoustic, improvised, contemporary, and popular music. He has composed for theatre and film, as well as creating sound installations and sound art.

Over the winter of 2003/04 Craig spent three months in Antarctica on a joint fellowship with Arts Council England and British Antarctic Survey's Artist and Writers Programme, as composer in residence. He was one of the founding members of the critically acclaimed pop-group Cousteau and, together with the composer Jonathan Eato, he has formed ev2, an improvising saxophone and percussion duo working in the musical spaces between jazz, electro-acoustic composition and multimedia performance environments.

"Singing Ringing Buoy is a manifestation of my love affair with the sea. Its creation has been informed by my residency in Antarctic, my voyage to Iceland, and my sailing trips around the UK. And also the weather station exhibition in the Maritime Museum. As such, I can think of no better place to host the composition during its first year of life" he said.