A new arts scheme - backed by Belfast City Council (BCC) - is set to "uncover" some of the historic hidden rivers that helped to shape the city.

Resounding Rivers will see artist Matt Green project sound into the city's streets to provide the Blackstaff and Farset rivers with a "renewed presence", as well as the reshaped Lagan. Green - a sound artist based at the Sonic Arts Research Centre - has been commissioned by PLACE, the Architecture and Built Environment Centre for Northern Ireland, for the scheme.

Sound projections at six sites across Belfast - each chosen due to their position on the route of one of the three rivers - will play the sound of water sources recorded across Northern Ireland. Green said: "The names of our streets - Bank Street, Bridge Street, Skipper Street - allude to the importance of these waterways in the development of the city.

"But today, they are culverted and diverted, built over and hidden, and in only a few places are we aware of the presence of water in the cityscape. Resounding Rivers aims to give them a renewed presence in the city centre."