A pair of artists have been awarded £5,000 to create a symphony out of sounds inaudible to the human ear.

Rowena Easton and Mike Blow plan to choose a high-profile Brighton building as the subject matter for their unusual idea.

They will use specialist equipment to record the creaks and strains of the building as it is blown by the wind and hit with other environmental forces.

They have been given the grant by the Award Scheme for Art in Public Places, a joint initiative between the Arts Council and South East England Development Agency (Seeda).

Mrs Easton said: "This installation will plug in to the architecture to record the subsonic and supersonic life of its fabric.

"Sounds will be processed insitu so as to create the building's own music."

Mr Blow said: "We would love to work with a developer and architect on a new building, to design this installation as part of its very fabric. It could also be possible to have a number of buildings around the country responding to each other and making music together."

The artists are working on the project in partnership with Brighton-based community radio station Earshot and Peter and Barbs Attwood, of Shoreham acoustic engineering consultancy Sound Solutions.

Karen Cass, director of Earshot, said: "As an organisation which works with sound, Earshot is extremely pleased to be a partner in what is a unique exploration of the interplay between structures, space, sound and symphony."