Pink Loudspeaker • Issue #71
Weekly listings of UK and Irish sound art (24 February–02 March 2025)
Pink Loudspeaker is a weekly roundup of sound-related exhibitions and events taking place across the UK and Ireland.
Issue #71 covers all events this week from Monday 24th to Sunday 2nd March 2025. Scroll down for over 45 sonic artworks, exhibitions and events across the British Isles that you can experience this week.
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Jerwood Survey III
📍 Collective, Edinburgh
🗓️ 28 February – 04 May 2025
Now in it’s third year, Jerwood Arts’ major touring exhibition Survey presents a new cohort of emerging UK artists at art spaces across the country. Survey opens at Collective gallery in Edinburgh this week, its final stop following presentations at Sheffield’s Site Gallery, g39 in Cardiff, and London’s Southwark Park Galleries.
Exhibiting is Blackburn’s Paul Nataraj whose practice takes a postcolonial approach, exploring perceivable tensions between sound, colonialism and memory, often through the customisation of sonic media and technologies. At Survey, Nataraj presents Repetitions of 108: Counting Almost Nothing a sound installation centred around nine modified record players and hand-etched vinyl.
“Distorting the 1981 BBC radio programme Taking the Strain by Penny Yendell, which appropriated yogic healing and relaxation techniques, the soundscape speaks to the relationship between colonialism and spirituality.” – Paul Nataraj
Also exhibiting is Alliyah Enyo whose work addresses themes of queer ecology and folkore through a range of sonic, performative and sculptural forms. At Survey, Enyo presents a mixed media work drawing connections between the long-distance communication of humpback whales and the melancholia associated with auditory memories. The commissioned work, Aphotic Archaeology, combines sonic, ceramic and performative elements, drawing from the mythology of sirens and selkies, and utilises underwater sound recordings.
“Humpback whales use song to converse. Underwater, sound takes longer to travel but travels over greater distances. For the whales the song and conversationis a non linear experience, a soundscape, where different songs arrive together but each from different points in time. This is much like the pathos experienced when listening to an audio recording of a person from years ago, as time is stretched and distended by a voice communicating with us from the past.” – Alliyah Enyo
Paul Nataraj’s Repetitions of 108: Counting Almost Nothing and Alliyah Enyo’s Aphotic Archaeology can both be experienced at the Jerwood Survey III exhibition at Edinburgh’s Collective gallery until 4th May 2025.
collective-edinburgh.art
paulnataraj.uk
alliyahenyo.com
Making Space: Charlotte Spencer – we are all memory bodies
📍 Fabrica, Brighton
🗓️ 27 February 2025 (19.00–21.00)
Choreographer Charlotte Spencer is currently in residence at Brighton’s Fabrica gallery developing a project entitled we are all memory bodies. Spencer and her collaborators are developing a number of multisensory works exploring tactility, felt experience, and memory. The event at Fabrica on 27th February will allow a limited audience to engage with three of these artworks, including the tactile Memory Table (developed by Spencer in collaboration with dance artists Shivaangee Agrawal, Petra Söör and Vicky Malin) and the interactive installation Listening Furniture, developed by sound artist Alberto Ruiz Soler, where physical objects are excited through vibration and transduction.
“Each work aims to shine a light on different curiosities held in these entanglements of memory and bodily sensation, inviting audiences to come into their tactile, porous, relational body and share in simple, but surprisingly profound acts of doing and making and sharing; co-creating a space of belonging, daydreaming, imagining, remembering, creating, exchanging, reflecting, refreshing.” – Charlotte Spencer
The Making Space event will take place at Brighton’s Fabrica on 27th February 2025. The event is ticketed and numbers are limited – see Fabrica’s website for more details.
fabrica.org.uk
charlottespencerprojects.org
Martin Osman – Free Abel
Reject Reflect Reclaim
📍 Beecroft Art Gallery, Southend
🗓️ 22 February – 11 May 2025
The Reject Reflect Reclaim exhibition at Southend’s Beecroft Art Gallery presents new works by fifteen artists from The Other MA cohort, responding to artworks in the gallery’s permanent collection. The work of Martin Osman (AKA dot.i) explores the relationships between sound, human relations and the more-than-human world. Osman’s contribution to this exhibition is Free Abel, which responds to an early 20th century oil painting entitled Portrait of an Enslaved Man by British painter and illustrator Gwynedd May Hudson. Free Abel provides a speculative narrative for Abel, the subject of the painting, recreating what sounds might have been encountered by Abel in his difficult journey from Ethiopia to England. The work makes comment on the poor condition of Hudson’s original artwork (which has degraded after many years spent in storage), raising important questions about black representation and erasure in art collections in Britain and beyond.
“The accompanying soundscape weaves in jazz records from the 1920s, a nod to the cultural landscape of Black Americans, juxtaposed with the curious absence of Black artists in the gallery's collection. The music calls out, echoing the vitality of Black creativity often overlooked in the white-dominated art world.” – Martin Osman
Martin Osman’s Free Abel alongside works by fourteen other artists can be experienced at the Reject Reflect Reclaim exhibition at Southend’s Beecroft Art Gallery until 11th May 2025.
toma-art.com
southendmuseums.co.uk/beecroft
instagram.com/dot.i.stuff
Opportunities
Sound of the Year Awards 2024
The Sound of the Year Awards are back for the fifth year to celebrate the sounds and sonic technologies of the last twelve months. Award categories include Best Natural Sound, Best Imagined Sound, Best Sound Innovation, Most Unpleasant Sound, and Disappearing Sound: A Sound Worth Saving. The awards are judged by a panel of international sound practioners and winners will receive a LOM microphone and other goodies. All categories are free to enter.
Last few days to enter! Apply before Friday 28th February 2025.
Cities and Memory
Sonic Heritage Project
The Cities and Memory project is looking for artists to submit compositions that reimagine field recordings from their large database. The project has amassed over 200 audio recordings from UNESCO World Heritage sites. Cities and Memory are looking to launch a collection of works on World Heritage Day 2025 (18th April).
The deadline to apply is 23rd March 2025.
Everything on this week
24th February – 2nd March 2025
Events/exhibitions are sorted by closing date. Opening hours may vary so please check with venues before venturing out! All London are grouped together at the top, scroll down for listings from all other locations across UK and Ireland.
🔊 LONDON LISTINGS 🔊
Sound Art Open Mic #20
📍Avalon Cafe, London
🗓️ 26 Feb 2025
LCC/CRiSAP Sound Arts Lecture Series: Joe Banks
📍 LCC, London / online
🗓️ 27 Feb 2025
Taliesin Gilkes-Bower – New Earth Radio Outpost
(Ongoing) Meme
📍Hypha Gallery Stratford, London
🗓️ 24 January – 01 March 2025
Black Holes: Act 1, by Suley
📍 Meadow, London
🗓️ 07 February – 01 March 2025
REVERB
📍 180 The Strand, London
🗓️ 22 May 2024 – 02 March 2025
Massimo Bartolini – Sparse Steps
📍 Frith Street Gallery, London
🗓️ 01 February – 08 March 2025
Mike Kelley – Ghost and Spirit
📍 Tate Modern, London
🗓️ 03 October 2024 – 09 March 2025
Ivan Seal – Prelude
📍 Alma Pearl, London
🗓️ 30 Jan – 22 March 2025
Tom Fairlamb – The Current Current Of Current
Bloomberg New Contemporaries
📍ICA, London
🗓️ 15 January – 23 March 2025
Millie Shafiee – Amir
Bloomberg New Contemporaries
📍 ICA, London
🗓️ 15 Jan – 23 March 2025
Tanat Teeradakorn – National Opera Complex
📍 Gasworks, London
🗓️ 30 January – 30 March 2025
Tiffany Wellington, Tamara Al-Mashouk, Divine Southgate-Smith – Hard Evidences
📍 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning, London
🗓️ 14 Feb – 30 March 2025
Greenaway & Greenaway – Trialogue
📍 Wembley Park, London
🗓️ 27 November – March 2025
Wilm van Egmond & Michael Prime – Soil in Action
SOIL. The World at Our Feet
📍 Somerset House, London
🗓️ 23 January – 13 April 2025
Miranda Whall – When Earth Speaks; A Dirty Ensemble
SOIL. The World at Our Feet
📍 Somerset House, London
🗓️ 23 January – 13 April 2025
Marshmellow Laser Feast – Fly Agaric I
SOIL. The World at Our Feet
📍 Somerset House, London
🗓️ 23 January – 13 April 2025
David Sappa – TAMESIS!
Winter Sculpture Park 2025
📍 Thamesmead, London
🗓️ 02 March - 26 April 2025
Hard Graft: Work, Health and Rights
📍 Wellcome Collection, London
🗓️ 19 Sept 2024 – 27 April 2025
Katarzyna Krakowiak – Oh no, please don’t
What is it Like?
📍 Arebyte Gallery, London
🗓️ 28 Feb – 04 May 2025
Nassim Azarzar – Hayat al Noujoum / La vie des Étoiles
📍 The Showroom, London
🗓️ 26 July 2024 – 07 July 2025
Abbas Zahedi – Begin Again
Gathering Ground
📍Tate Modern, London
🗓️ 29 January 2025 – 04 January 2026
🔊 LISTINGS FOR ALL OTHER CITIES 🔊
Fiona Brehony – Rivers, Industrial Heritage, Regeneration
📍 Central Library, Manchester
🗓️ 24 February 2025
Alberto Ruiz Soler – Listening Furniture
Making Space: Charlotte Spencer – we are all memory bodies
📍 Fabrica, Brighton
🗓️ 27 February 2025
Resonant Kinetics
📍 Strange Brew, Bristol
🗓️ 27 February 2025
Toll (film screening)
📍Wick Harbour Fish Mart, Wick, Scottish Highlands
🗓️ 28 February 2025
Toll (film screening)
📍Wick Harbour Fish Mart, Wick, Scottish Highlands
🗓️ 01 March 2025
Zinzi Minott
Conversations
📍 Walker Gallery, Liverpool
🗓️ 19 Oct 2024 – 09 March 2025
Rob St John – Emergent Landscapes
Exploring LAND: A Conversation Through Art
📍 Peter Scott Gallery Lancaster
🗓️ 20 January – 15 March 2025
Hannah Perry – Manual Labour
📍 Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
🗓️ 22 June 2024 - 16 March 2025
Maria Fusco & Margaret Salmon – History of the Present
📍 Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast
🗓️ 15 Feb – 29 March 2025
Nell Catchpole – Transported
📍 Middlesbrough Railway Station, Middlesbrough
🗓️ 16 Dec – 31 March 2025
Ed Carter – Transient
📍 Middlesbrough Railway Station, Middlesbrough
🗓️ 16 Dec – 31 March 2025
Everyday Algorithms
📍 NewBridge Project, Newcastle
🗓️ 22 Feb – 19 April 2025
Emma Critchley – Soundings
📍 John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
🗓️ 08 Feb – 03 May 2025
Paul Nataraj – Repetitions of 108: Counting Almost Nothing
Jerwood Survey III
📍 Collective, Edinburgh
🗓️ 28 February – 04 May 2025
Alliyah Enyo – Aphotic Archaeology
Jerwood Survey III
📍 Collective, Edinburgh
🗓️ 28 February – 04 May 2025
Christopher Kulendran Thomas – Safe Zone
📍 FACT, Liverpool
🗓️ 21 Feb – 11 May 2025
Martin Osman – Free Abel
Reject Reflect Reclaim
📍Beecroft Art Gallery, Southend
🗓️ 22 February – 11 May 2025
Leap Then Look – Play Interact Explore
📍 BALTIC, Gateshead
🗓️ 12 Oct 2024 – 01 Jun 2025
Colin Woods - I Just Called
📍 Belfast (various libraries)
🗓️ Oct 2024 – June 2025
Imran Perretta – A Riot In Three Acts
📍 HOME, Manchester
🗓️ 22 Feb – 08 June 2025
Soundmarks York
📍 DIG, York
🗓️ on-going
Jamie Jenkinson – Nattering
📍 Millom Library, Cumbria
🗓️ on-going
Susan Philipsz - By Sound Near Seawall
📍 Whitehaven Harbour, Cumbria
🗓️ on-going
SoundEscapes
📍 Sainsbury Centre, Norwich
🗓️ 06 Dec 2024 – on-going
Justin Wiggin – Echo Point
📍 Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro
🗓️ 20 January 2025 – on-going
These listings are created by the Sound Arts UK team in an effort to support the UK sonic arts community and to help bring the artform to a wider audience. If you find these listings useful please share! You can subscribe below to receive Pink Loudspeaker as a free weekly newsletter. Please get in touch if you have any comments or want to let us know about any events we’ve missed. Thank you for reading Pink Loudspeaker! 🔊