Pink Loudspeaker • Issue #75
Weekly listings of UK and Irish sound art (24–30 March 2025)
Pink Loudspeaker is your definitive guide to contemporary sound art in the British Isles.
Issue #75 covers all events that can be experienced across the UK and Ireland for the week of Monday 24th to Sunday 30th March 2025. Scroll down for details on over sixty sonic artworks, exhibitions, performances, workshops, and events across the UK and Ireland that you can experience this week.
This week we cover harmonica-embedded inflatables, Finnish mythological utopias, Grenadian resonant shacks, sonic life drawing sessions, and oral histories of fishing communities, and more…
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Louis Morlæ – $ID3FA££ $YNDR0M3
📍 Rose Easton, London
🗓️ 15 March – 26 April 2025
$ID3FA££ $YNDR0M3 is the second solo show from London-based Australian artist Louis Morlæ at Bethnal Green gallery Rose Easton. The show combines objects of safety with customised materials to explore notions of gravity, free-fall and cataclysm. Sprawling across most of the gallery’s space is an installation entitled SFB1. This work features an electric air blower, a network of silver industrial ventilation pipes, and three pastel pink and blue inflatable sacs made of silicone coated nylon. Morlæ has embedded diatonic harmonicas into the structure of the inflatable elements so they produce acoustic tones when air is passed through them. Also on display is Rapunzel’s Tower (Relative Clock) presents an idiosyncratic form of time keeping where a carabiner clip attached to a length of braided hair acts as a pendulum of sorts, chiming every three and three-quarter minutes.
$ID3FA££ $YNDR0M3 can be experienced at London’s Rose Easton gallery until 26th April 2025.
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Henna Asikainen – Lintukoto/Haven
📍 Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster
🗓️ 24 March – 16 May 2025
Opening at Lancaster’s Peter Scott Gallery this week is Lintukoto/Haven, a new solo exhibition by Newcastle-based Finnish artist Henna Asikainen. The exhibition takes its name from Finnish mythology – the term ‘lintukoto’ is historically used to describe a utopian place where birds are said to migrate, in a boundary between earth and sky. Asikainen is a socially-engaged artist whose sculptural works often utilse natural materials and sound to delve into the complexities of displacement, migration, and heritage. This new exhibition will feature a number of sculptural works engaging with themes of human and more-than-human migration. Works such as Nest, a huge human-sized nest made of local foliage built with the local community earlier this year, will be on display alongside Wing Cradle, an otherworldly sculpture in which thousands of salvaged white feathers have been meticulously hand-stitched together. Wing Cradle has an audio component which centres the lived experience of human migration with oral testimony from Zainah Adnan alongside sounds from Scottish composer Erland Cooper.
Lintukoto/Haven runs at the Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster until 16th May 2025.
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Alvaro Barrington – Back Home / I Am... I Said
📍 Sadie Coles HQ, 62 Kingly Street, London
🗓️ 05 March –26 April 2025
On the back of a recent exhibition at Tate Britain, Venezuelan London-based artist Alvaro Barrington presents two new bodies of work at Sadie Coles HQ’s 62 Kingly Street gallery space, where Barrington reflects upon his formative years spent in Grenada as a child. The show presents a collection of vibrant paintings and a mixed-media installation which explore ideas of movement, migration, and belonging. Positioned in the centre of the gallery space is a huge shack constructed of wood and corrugated metal that houses a bespoke sound system designed by London sound specialists Friendly Pressure. The system plays a soundtrack composed by DJ and radio presenter Tiffany Calver, alongside contributions from musician Naima Nefertari and others. Visitors are encouraged to enter the shack and spend some time with its soundtrack, sat on the sculptural seating built by Barrington.
Back Home / I Am... I Said runs at Sadie Coles HQ’s 62 Kingly Street gallery, London until 26th April 2025.
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The Hand That Hears: Drawing Bodies With Sound
📍 Listen Gallery, Glasgow
🗓️ 26 March 2025
Since its launch in 2021, Glasgow’s Listen Gallery has established itself as an important part of the national sound art community. It is currently one of only three public venues in the UK dedicated to the sonic arts (the others are the fantastic Full of Noises who have hosted events in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria for the last fifteen years, and project space Lake which opened in Deptford in late 2022, specialising in spatial sound installations).
Listen Gallery was founded by sound artist Riah Naief in an attempt to address systemic issues that continue to inform how the sonic arts are presented and discussed. For the last four years Naief has worked tirelessly to offer a programme of exhibitions and events that adopts an intersectional feminist perspective of sound, centring the work of under-represented, gender diverse, queer, and global majority artists working in the field. Despite this very necessary work, the gallery has not been able to secure public funding or institutional support. There is currently a fundraiser on their Patreon page that is hoping to raise money to continue their amazing work. Please consider donating if you are able to!
The gallery is currently preparing a new series of cross-disciplinary events combining sound performance and life drawing – hoping to explore the relationships between sound production, listening, drawing, and the human body. Its first event will run this week and will feature sounds curated by artist Alliyah Enyo (who we covered back in Pink Loudspeaker #71 and whose work Aphotic Archaeology is currently on show at Edinburgh’s Collective gallery as part of the Jerwood Survey exhibition).
The Hand That Hears: Drawing Bodies With Sound will take place at Glasgow’s Listen Gallery on 26th March 2025.
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Mary Hooper – The Sun Feeds the Wind
📍 Hastings Contemporary, Hastings
🗓️ 29 March – 14 September 2025
Hastings Contemporary presents The Sun Feeds the Wind a new exhibition from artist Mary Hooper. Hooper’s practice is multi-disciplinary, incorporating field recording, soundscape composition, and the documentation of oral history. This exhibition will feature an archive which contains oral histories of Hasting’s local fishing community and an immersive soundscape installation which has been informed by interviews and field recordings conducted locally by Hooper.
Experience The Sun Feeds the Wind at Hastings Contemporary until 14th September 2025.
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Opportunities
• 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
• In the summer, 101 Outdoor Arts (Reading, UK) will host Sound and the Outdoors: Base Frequencies Lab a three-day creative lab for considering the practice of presenting sound outside of gallery and venue environments. Spaces are limited so applications are necessary. To apply fill in the online form on the 101 website. Deadline: 7th April 2025. 101outdoorarts.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
Full listings
Everything on this week: 24th–30th March 2025
This week we found over 60 sound art events, including 49 exhibitions (22 in London, 26 elsewhere) plus fifteen events, performances, and workshops taking place across the UK and Ireland.
Events and 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 for all other locations.
🔊 LONDON LISTINGS 🔊
Darkfield – Immersive Audio Masterclass
📍 Shoreditch Town Hall, London
🗓️ 25 March 2025
The Engine Room Presents: No Home, FROST & Chris Tosic
📍 The Temple of Art and Music, London
🗓️ 25 March 2025
Sara Hamdy – From Outer-Space to a Space and Vice Versa: A Public Lecture on Egyptian Sonic Arts and Archives)
Beyond 1932 Residency
📍 St Pancras Clocktower, London
🗓️ 26 March 2025
Sound Art Open Mic #21
📍 Avalon Cafe, London
🗓️ 26 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
Eavesdropping Festival 2025
📍 Cafe Oto, London
🗓️ 27–30 March 2025
Eavesdropping Forum
📍 Vortex Jazz Club, London
🗓️ 29–30 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
Sounds of Blossom
📍 Kew Gardens, London
🗓️ 15 March – 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
Marshmallow 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
A Place of our Making
📍 UCL East Marshgate, London
🗓️ 14 March – 13 April 2025
Unfolding Narratives
📍 London College of Communication, London
🗓️ 19 March – 16 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
Louis Morlæ – $ID3FA££ $YNDR0M3
📍 Rose Easton, London
🗓️ 15 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
Black Sound London: The Story of British Black Music
📍 Barbican Music Library, London
🗓️ 10 March – 19 July 2025
Abbas Zahedi – Begin Again
Gathering Ground
📍Tate Modern, London
🗓️ 29 January 2025 – 04 January 2026
🔊 LISTINGS FOR ALL OTHER CITIES 🔊
Valeria Radchenko – Sound for Performance workshops
📍 Rising Sun Arts Centre, Reading
🗓️ 24 March 2025
Fiona Brehony – Liquid History workshop #3
📍 Central Library, Manchester
🗓️ 24 March 2025
The Hand That Hears: Drawing Bodies With Sound
📍 Listen Gallery, Glasgow
🗓️ 26 March 2025
Konkylie – Deep Listening event
📍 Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
🗓️ 27 March 2025
Conversations – A Sonic Dialogue
📍 Clothworkers Building Central and Link (University of Leeds), Leeds
🗓️ 11–27 March 2025
Bird: A Workshop in Sound, Emotion & Hope (3/3)
📍 Tyntesfield, Bristol
🗓️ 28 March 2025
Morgan Quintance – Available Light
📍 Berwick Film & Media Art Festival, Berwick
🗓️ 29 March 2025
Alex De Little - Deep Listening workshop
📍 Fearnville Fields, Leeds
🗓️ 30 March 2025
Cǎn Coed/Tree Songs
📍Parc Meurig Bethesda, Wales
🗓️ 29–30 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
Henna Asikainen – Lintukoto/Haven
📍 Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster
🗓️ 24 March – 16 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
Mary Hooper – The Sun Feeds the Wind
📍 Hastings Contemporary, Hastings
🗓️ 29 March – 14 Sept 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!
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