The various facets of the Channel Communication Amplifiers project mean that it provides a great focus for educational projects, whether engineering, acoustic, scientific, artistic, language or communications related. The project provides obvious historical and geographical references that can be played into politics and the role of the UK and France in Europe today.

The history of the sound mirrors is a story of research trial and error that left a legacy of enigmatic, monolithic ruins, suggestive of previous civilisation’s strange practices. The original acoustic mirrors listened to the sky in apprehension of an invasion, and our continuing fascination comes from their very human atmosphere of longing and solitude.

The mirrors seem to be yearning for contact, an image that is echoed in today’s radio telescopes, listening for extra terrestrial voices. The Channel Communication Amplifier project however, is an optimistic vision of the possibilities of human communication.