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There will be a live performance of the longer version in a back room of the church on the opening night.The installation was commissioned by Media Art Bath, which is producing a record with natural and synthesised versions of the thunderclap. “There will be gaps between thunderclaps; it’s like several storms building up and dying away, with peaks and troughs of activity,” says Rickards. Rickards, taking time out from her day job as an art handler at the Tate, worked alongside the composer David Murphy to realise her idea. Together, they listened repeatedly to a digitally slowed recording of a thunderclap to determine how best to recreate its sound using instruments, before Murphy transcribed it.
The score, conducted by the BBC Philharmonic’s Jason Lai, creates a full sound using cello, violin, viola, trombone, trumpet, flute and piccolo, which lasts about seven minutes before being speeded up to produce the synthesised thunderclap. The recorded sound of a synthesised thunderclap will soon be blasting around Bath’s Central United Reformed Church on a five-hour loop for four weeks. How will this affect the congregation? “They can turn it off for services,” says the artist Hannah Rickards, whose new sound installation, Thunder, was created with the help of an eight-piece orchestra. Critics lauded the film, second in a series of plane-related epics, for its special effects placing the jumbo seemingly feet above the Rockies..

The cast has all the usual suspects for a 1970s blockbuster, a cute teenager awaiting a kidney transplant, two nuns and a rock star. On the ground, an off-duty pilot played by Charlton Heston mounts a rescue by being winched into the aircraft from a helicopter. The group did not initially say how they had survived, claiming they had eaten cheese. AIRPORT 1975 Arguably the daddy of all awful airliner disaster movies, Airport 1975 pitches “Nancy”, a stewardess, into the pilot’s seat of a Boeing 747 after the cockpit is struck by a light aircraft, killing the crew. The group tried unsuccessfully to rig up a radio to communicate with the outside world before sending three men over the mountains to reach Chile.

The journey took 10 days and helicopters arrived to rescue the 14 remaining survivors some 72 days after the crash. For 10 days the 27 survivors did their best to live with the meagre rations they had but, after hearing over the radio that the search for them had been called off, they took the collective decision to cannibalise the dead. She is the only other survivor of the crash, racked by guilt after her baby died in the tragedy. ALIVE (1993) One of the greatest, and most disturbing, battles for survival is based on the accounts of a Uruguayan rugby team whose military turboprop crashed in the Andes on the way to a match in Chile in 1972.

The Bridges character believes himself invulnerable and subsequently drives his car into a brick wall to prove his point. In one scene he shouts to God: “You want to kill me but you can’t.” His isolation, in which his relationship with his wife Laura, played by Isabella Rossellini, is destroyed, is only ended when he meets Carla Rodrigo, played by Rosie Perez. The movie helped establish the critical reputation of Stephen Frears, the film’s British director. FEARLESS (1993) When Max Klein, played by Jeff Bridges, emerges unscathed from a plane crash, he provides the basis for an off-beat study into the psychological traumas of survival.

Dustin Hoffman plays a petty thief who witnesses a plane crash and goes to loot the wreckage, only to end up rescuing several passengers before he disappears, leaving a shoe behind. When a television reporter on the plane offers a $1m prize for an interview with the “Angel of Flight 104″, the thief is beaten to it by a friend who claims his glory while the thief lands in jail. ACCIDENTAL HERO (1992) Carrying the tagline “One selfless act of courage can really mess up your whole day”, this film succeeds in the risky strategy of basing a comedy on a plane crash. Hanks received an Oscar nomination for his role, in which he engages in long debates with his volleyball muse before stabbing it to death. Despite featuring the spectacular demise of one its aircraft, FedEx was an enthusiastic collaborator in the film, providing its own materials to ensure accuracy during extensive exposure of the brand. Played by Hanks, the FedEx executive survives with equipment found in courier packages washed up from the wreckage of the jet, before finally contriving a raft that will drift him to civilisation after four years of isolation. CAST AWAY (2000) Memorable chiefly for the scenes in which Tom Hanks meets his intellectual equal in a Wilson volleyball which he imaginatively names Wilson, this is the Robinson Crusoe-style tale of a Federal Express employee trapped on a tropical island after a plane crash.