Pink Loudspeaker • Issue #74
Weekly listings of UK and Irish sound art (17–23 March 2025)
Pink Loudspeaker is your definitive guide to the sonic arts in the British Isles.
Issue #74 covers all events that can be experienced across the UK and Ireland for the week of Monday 17th to Sunday 23rd March 2025. Scroll down for details on over sixty sonic artworks, exhibitions, and events across the UK and Ireland that you can experience this week.
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Sound and Silence: An Exhibition of Contemporary Bells
📍 MAKE Southwest, Bovey Tracey
🗓️ 22 March – 14 June 2025
This week a new exhibition entitled Sound and Silence will open at MAKE Southwest. The show is billed as an exhibition of contemporary bells and will present the work of four contemporary sculptors and bellmakers working with bells in diverse, idiosyncractic ways.
Artist and researcher Emma-Kate Matthews exhibits new sculptural works from her Resonant Bodies series. These works feature bell-like and pronged physical instruments that explore notions of resonance, in both acoustic and cultural contexts. Matthews’ bells have been produced through digital modelling and contemporary fabrication processes (such as 3D printing) as opposed to traditional bell foundry techniques.
Sculptor, musician, and bellmaker Marcus Vergette will present three interactive installations at the exhibition, all of which can be activated by visitors. All of the works feature bells in a range of materials, including a collection of unconventional bells made of plaster.
Bristol-based artists Isaac Stacey and Sonny Lee Lightfoot AKA Copper Sounds, will present a new sound installation for the exhibition. The installation will build upon the duo’s prior work which often combines elemental materials with responsive technologies, and will feature a set of unique bronze bells which will be resonated by mechanical means.
David Snoo Wilson is a sculptor and bellmaker whose work explores histories and folklore of bell-making in the British Isles. Wilson runs Ore and Ingot, a nomadic bell foundry. At this exhibition Wilson will present a variety of his hand-forged bells that can be sounded by visitors.
Sound and Silence opens on 22nd March and runs until 14th June 2025 at MAKE Southwest in Bovey Tracey, Devon.
makesouthwest.org.uk
ekmworks.com
timeandtidebell.org
coppersounds.co.uk
oreandingot.com
Lizzie King – Connecting the Tree and the Foot
Fragments of Time
📍 Salford Museum & Art Gallery, Salford
🗓️ 22 March – 21 Dec 2025
Opening this week in the East Wing of the Salford Museum & Art Gallery is Fragments of Time, a group exhibition of works by four North West based artists Naomi Kendrick, Lizzie King, Maggie Thompson, and Susan Wright.
The work of interdisciplinary artist Lizzie King often approaches the means of sonic and visual production through an ecological lens. Recent work has seen King explore human and more-than-human relations in public spaces through recording the vibrations of trees, and using amplified sound to produce alternative photographic images. For Fragments of Time, King presents Connecting the Tree and the Foot, a new four-channel sound installation that responds to the physical and acoustic qualities of the gallery itself – a former dance studio with sprung flooring. The work references the materiality of the space, as well as its history of utilising and mitigating vibration.
The Fragments of Time exhibition opens at Salford Museum & Art Gallery on Saturday 22nd March and runs until 21 December 2025. A launch event will be held at 13.00–15.00 on Sunday 23rd March.
salfordmuseum.com
lizzieking.co.uk
The Conch: Camille Brée, Seo Hye Lee & Mengting Zhuo
📍 South London Gallery, London
🗓️ 19 March 2025, 19.00–20.30
South London Gallery’s long-running event series The Conch returns this week with an evening dedicated to sound and its impact on the body. On Wednesday 19th March, international artists Camille Brée, Mengting Zhuo, and Seo Hye Lee will all present new works that will respond to the gallery’s Clore Studio space through performative gestures, sonic actions, and various media and materials.
Sound is a key factor in the work of London-based Chinese artist Mengting Zhuo, whose creates intimate environments for audiences through a combination of live performance and installation. At The Conch event Zhuo will present a site-responsive performance-lecture, where the acoustic properties of the space will be activated through amplified voice and objects.
Attempting to recontextualise definitions of ‘soundscape’ South Korean artist Seo Hye Lee will present a selection of textile works responding to sonic phenomena and sensation. Lee’s practice approaches sound and silence from a position of hearing loss, informed by the artist’s experience as a cochlear implant user.
Experience The Conch at South London Gallery’s Clore Studio on 19th March 2025.
southlondongallery.org
zhuomengting.com
seohyelee.com
camillebree.fr
Opportunities
• The Cities and Memory project is looking for artists to submit compositions to their Sonic Heritage Project 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). Deadline: 23rd March 2025. citiesandmemory.com
• ZKM are launching a Global Sonic Research Residency in collaboration with the Arts Council Korea and the European Center for the Arts HELLERAU. There is currently an open call for international artists and researchers working with sound to create immersive experiences with spatial audio. The theme of the residency is ‘Futureproofing Connection’ and there are three residency positions available. The residencies will take place in Germany but the call is open to artists worldwide without geographical restrictions. Deadline: 25th March 2025. zkm.de
• On Air - On Site festival are seeking proposals for fixed-media radio works and live performances using radio. The festival will take place in May 2025 at the Institute of Sonology, The Hague. To apply fill in the online form at this link. Deadline: 1st April 2025. onaironsite.com
• Middlesbrough’s long-running Sonic Arts Week festival has an open call seeking proposals for audio works for an ultrasonic speaker installation that will be programmed at their next edition in the summer. Deadline: 7th April 2025. sonicartsweek.com
• The Museum of Loss and Renewal offers a week-long residency programme in the Orkney Islands on the theme of ‘Soundings and Surroundings’. The residency will be led by Tracy Mackenna and Erasmus Mackenna alongside local experts in Orkney, and will take place 30th August until 6th September 2025. The residency costs £1500 to attend which includes accommodation, local travel, catering. Deadline: 14th April 2025. tracy.mackenna.studio
• Seismograf is a Danish magazine dedicated to new music and sound art. Thy currently have an open call for proposals seeking audio papers and texts that explore notions of ‘Sonic Citizenship.’ Deadline: 1st May 2025. seismograf.org
Everything on this week
17th–23rd 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 🔊
Paul Purgas – Echoes & Space lecture
Sonic Architectures
📍 Royal College of Art (Kensington campus), London
🗓️ 18 March 2025
Sonic Architectures workshop
Sonic Architectures
📍 Royal College of Art (Kensington campus), London
🗓️ 18 March 2025
Sandbox: Cymatics
📍 Bernie Grant Art Centre, London
🗓️ 19 March 2025
The Conch (Camille Brée, Seo Hye Lee & Mengting Zhuo)
📍 South London Gallery, London
🗓️ 19 March 2025
Unfolding Narratives
📍 London College of Communication, London
🗓️ 19 March – 16 April 2025
LCC/CRiSAP Sound Arts Lecture Series: Mhamad Safa
📍 LCC, London / online
🗓️ 20 March 2025
Joanna Penso –The River in You / Runs Right Through / BODY TALKS
📍 DIVFUSE, London
🗓️ 21–23 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
Barbara Long – Stairway to Heaven
📍 Ruup & Form, London
🗓️ 05–29 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
Nikita Gale – LOCKED LUNGS
Ensemble
📍 The Perimeter, London
🗓️ 18 January – 04 April 2025
Theaster Gates – Woah Dee Woah
Theaster Gates – 1965: Malcolm in Winter: A Translation Exercise
📍 White Cube, London
🗓️ 07 Feb – 06 April 2025
Lisa-Marie Harris – Ease the Tension
📍 Studio/Chapple, London
🗓️ 28 Feb – 12 April 2025
Sophie Birch & Rachel Youn – Figures of Speech
📍 Alice Amati, London
🗓️ 07 March – 12 April 2025
Wilm van Egmond & Michael Prime – Soil in Action
SOIL. The World at Our Feet
📍 Somerset House, London
🗓️ 23 January – 13 April 2025
Michael Prime – One Hour as Peyote
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
Semantica & Juan Cortés – As Above So Below
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
Alvaro Barrington (feat. Tiffany Calver, Naima Nefertari and Friendly Pressure) – Back Home / I Am... I Said
📍 Sadie Coles HQ, London
🗓️ 05 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
R.I.P. Germain – Anti-Blackness Is Bad, Even The Parts That We Like
📍 Cabinet, London
🗓️ 14 March – 10 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 🔊
Bird: A Workshop in Sound, Emotion & Hope (2/3)
📍 Tyntesfield, Bristol
🗓️ 17 March 2025
Open Listening Group
📍 Unit 44, Dublin
🗓️ 18 March 2025
Listen Club: Jean Martin – Sound Atmospheres
📍 The Rose Hill, Brighton
🗓️ 19 March 2025
Gre – Sound Bath #2
📍 John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
🗓️ 19 March 2025
At the Sonic Front: Dirar Kalash
📍 NIA Centre, Manchester
🗓️ 20 March 2025
David Rothenberg – The Secret Sound of Ponds
📍 The Rose Hill, Brighton
🗓️ 20 March 2025
Siân Landau – The Sound of Un-Earthing
Works In Progress III
📍 Leith Depot, Edinburgh
🗓️ 20 March 2025
I’m Still Teething (Joely Mae Greally & Jasmine Naila Burt)
📍 PINK, Stockport
🗓️ 21 March 2025
Gre – Sound Bath #3
📍 John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
🗓️ 22 March 2025
Listening Garden launch
📍 Piel View House, Barrow-in-Furness
🗓️ 22 March 2025
Jude Browning – Ranters
📍 16 Collective, Glasgow
🗓️ 07–23 March 2025
Maria Fusco & Margaret Salmon – History of the Present
📍 Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast
🗓️ 15 Feb – 29 March 2025
British Antarctic Survey Archive Collaboration
📍 Dorset Place Gallery, Brighton
🗓️ 20–30 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
Maryanne Royle
📍 Rochdale Pioneers Museum, Rochdale
🗓️ 08 March–05 April 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
Imran Perretta – A Riot In Three Acts
📍 HOME, Manchester
🗓️ 22 Feb – 08 June 2025
Sound and Silence: An Exhibition of Contemporary Bells
📍 MAKE Southwest, Bovey Tracey
🗓️ 22 March – 14 June 2025
Colin Woods - I Just Called
📍 Belfast (various libraries)
🗓️ Oct 2024 – June 2025
The Secret Lives of Bottle of Notes: Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen📍 MIMA, Middlesbrough
🗓️ 14 March – 05 October 2025
Lizzie King – Connecting the Tree and the Foot
Fragments of Time
📍 Salford Museum & Art Gallery, Salford
🗓️ 22 March – 21 Dec 2025
Resonant Forms
📍 The Hepworth, Wakefield
🗓️ 08 March 2025 – January 2026
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! 🔊