Pink Loudspeaker • Issue #77
Weekly listings of UK and Irish sound art (07–13 April 2025)
Pink Loudspeaker is your definitive guide to contemporary sound art in the British Isles.
This edition covers all events that can be experienced across the UK and Ireland for the week of Monday 7th to Sunday 13th April 2025. Scroll down for details on over fifty-five sonic artworks, exhibitions, performances, workshops, and events across the UK and Ireland that you can experience this week.
Issue #77 we cover resonant infrastructure, collective attunement, protest psychoacoustics, chaotic synthesis, archaeological muteness, the electromagnetic traces of Roman amphitheatres, bass-heavy woofers, mobile sound systems, and more…
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Abbas Zahedi – Begin Again
Gathering Ground
📍Tate Modern, London
🗓️ 29 Jan 2025 – 04 Jan 2026
Tate Modern’s current year-long exhibition, Gathering Ground, explores artistic works engaging with themes of social and environmental justice. The show features a number of works from Tate’s permanent collection alongside a major new commission by artist Abbas Zahedi. Zahedi’s exhibitions often take the form of interventions, creating the conditions for shared experiences and communal reflection. He often produces large-scale installations and frequently works with sound technologies such as microphones and audio transducers to interact with – and comment on – the infrastructure of gallery spaces.
This new commission, Begin Again, features a huge sprawling network of metallic sculptural instruments built from recycled materials. Within the work there are waterphones, metal piping and horns of various sizes, all directly engaging with Tate’s architecture. The work resonates the building’s ventilation ducts and other functional systems through the sound sculptures and playback sound systems.
“The sound composition shifts between moments of harmony and disintegration. Each sonic collapse prompts the piece to rebuild, emphasising the power of renewal and beginning again.”
In addition to the exhibition, the artist is currenrtly hosting monthly ‘support groups’ for collective listening. These sessions offer a shared space to come together, to listen communally within the context of the exhibition and its sounds. The sessions offer what the artist describes as “collective attunement” where ecological grief, resistance and resonances can be experienced and embraced together.
Gathering Ground runs at London’s Tate Modern until 4th January 2026. The Begin Again support groups take place on the first Saturday of each month and run throughout the year.
Nazanin Noori – THE ECHO OF PROTEST IS DISTANT TO THE PROTEST
📍 Auto Italia, London
🗓️ 10 April – 22 June 2025
Opening this week at Bethnal Green’s Auto Italia gallery is THE ECHO OF PROTEST IS DISTANT TO THE PROTEST, the debut UK exhibition from Iranian interdisciplinary sound artist Nazanin Noori. After an initial stint in Germany last autumn at CCA Berlin, Noori’s solo show travels to London. This exhibition will present new and recent sculptures, installations, and sound works responding to themes of social justice, human rights, and resistance – with a particular emphasis on the protests surrounding the death of Jina Amini in Iran.
The show features a quadrophonic sound installation entitled IF THERE IS GOD NO ONE WILL BE DAMNED / A HOLLOW SONG SUSPENDED, which offers visitors an intense “cacophony of sound” designed to evoke the psychoacoustic experience of being in the midst of an energetic public demonstration. The work has been constructed with many layers of synthesis (as opposed to using field recordings or samples from protests) and features contributions from opera singer Rupert Enticknap and Iranian classical singer Samin Ghorbani.
“The composition features the voice of vocalist Rupert Enticknap, who performs an adaptation of T. S. Eliot’s The Hollow Men. Originally written as a reflection on the moral paralysis of the male condition after World War I, the poem portrays a group of spiritually hollow people, devoid of substance. Alongside Enticknap’s rendition, Iranian classical singer Samin Ghorbani recites parts of Shahab Mousavi’s Shia ritual chant ای کوفیان بی وفا (“O Kufians, You Who Are Faithless”) that was written as a lament for the Battle of Karbala, where Husayn Ibn Ali, the grandson of the prophet Muhammad, and his supporters were massacred in 680 CE. The Battle of Karbala is a pivotal event in Shia Islam that is commemorated annually during Muharram. ای کوفیان بی وفا was first performed during the 2012 ceremonies in Yazd and more recently adapted as a protest song against the Islamic Republic during the Jina Amini protests.” – Auto Italia
Nazanin Noori’s THE ECHO OF PROTEST IS DISTANT TO THE PROTEST opens at London’s Auto Italia on 10th April and runs until 22nd June 2025.
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Hannan Jones – A Frontier in Depth
📍 Caerleon Roman Amphitheatre, Newport, Wales
🗓️ 12 April 2025 (10.00–16.00)
This weekend, Glasgow-based multi-disciplinary sound artist Hannan Jones will present a new body of work at the historic Caerleon Roman Amphitheatre in Wales. The event, A Frontier in Depth, will premiere a trilogy of new films by Jones, alongside a collection of ceramic vessels created with local communities, and a new multi-channel sound installation. All of these works are the result of the artist’s research conducted on the Perspective(s) arts programme over the last year. Jones is one of seven artists who have been critically engaging with the collections and complex legacies of Welsh national museums, examining whose histories are archived and which voices are heard.
Jones’ sound installation, Templum Terrarium (re-adapting the spectacle in imperial debris), imagines the speculative futures soundscapes of the site, forging connections between the sonics of the present day and that of the site’s Roman history. Informed by fieldwork conducted at the amphitheatre, the work contains audio recordings, emissions of electromagnetic radiation, and infrasonic seismic vibrations of the site.
Archaeology is often linked to the notion of "muteness"—the idea that without expert interpretation, objects and their contexts are considered "silent". This belief, rooted in colonial ideologies, is in direct contrast to the soundscape which speculates and never arrives at a given moment, constantly rupturing and turning.”
Hannan Jones’ A Frontier in Depth can be experienced at the Amffitheatr Rufeinig Caerllion on 12th April 2025.
Sound Clash
📍Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London
🗓️ 12 April 2025 (16:00 – 21:00)
Sound Clash is an evening of sonic performances, sound system trails and hands-on activities taking place at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in East London. The event is presented by the V&A (its new V&A East gallery is due to open in Stratford next month) and has been curated by inaugeral Curatorial Fellow, sound artist Ben Swaby Selig. Sound Clash presents a diverse programme of works that explore sound, space, and resistance. Works will engage with themes of pirate radio, East London’s warehouse rave scene, Jamaican sound system culture, colonialist materialities, sound and gentrification, field recording and more.
One work on display will be the collaborative sound sculpture devised by Space Afrika’s Joshua Tarelle Reid and artist Ross Alexander Payne. The work, entitled To Have Been A Part (Where Are We Today…), reflects upon the memorialisation of musical subcultures and their social networks. Reid and Payne have collected various voices from documentation of the 1980s–90s UK rave scene and recontextualised these sounds through the sculptural form of a repurposed car door with an embedded sound system.
Artist Joe Namy will present an iteration of their long-running Automobile series, which explores the infrastructure and heavy resonances of bass-heavy mobile sound system cultures of Beirut, East London and beyond. Namy’s practice deconstructs the social constructs of music and sound, commenting on themes such as the masculinity of bass culture, the on-going militarisation of sound, and migratory histories of musical instruments.
“Some people feel music with dance, or in meditation, or through enormous sub woofers in the trunk of their car that pushes air so hard it can make your hair trick out. This air is passion. This passion is bass, and the car is: a getaway, a chase, the escape.” – Joe Namy
Sound Clash will include presentations from many exciting UK and international artists working with sound and sonic culture. Gary Stewart and Trevor Mathison will perform together with their long-running Dubmorphology project, and bill daggs and Shepherd Manyika will present their new collaboration as Floods in Fires. Also presenting are London-based Mexican artist Pedro Resendez who has been constructing vehicles from salvaged metals and reclaimed sound systems; Liverpool-based artist Ashley Holmes whose recent exhibition at Sheffield’s Arts Catalyst explored the relationships between landscapes, music and belonging; curator and sound artist Ben Swaby Selig, and many others.
The Sound Clash event will take place at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, East London on 12th April 2025.
Opportunities
• 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: 07–13 April 2025
This week we found over fifty-five sound art exhibitions, events, performances, public lectures, 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 🔊
Sound Clash
📍Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London
🗓️ 12 April 2025 (16:00 – 21:00)
A Year of Deep Listening: A Celebration of the Book
📍 Greenwich Peninsula, London
🗓️ 12 April 2025
Lisa-Marie Harris – Ease the Tension
📍 Studio/Chapple, London
🗓️ 28 Feb – 12 April 2025
MANIFEST:IO
📍 Goldsmiths University of London, London
🗓️ 11–12 April 2025
Sophie Birch & Rachel Youn – Figures of Speech
📍 Alice Amati, London
🗓️ 07 March – 12 April 2025
Darkfield – Arcade
📍 The Ditch, London
🗓️ 01–12 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
Joya Berrow – Unearthing Stories in the Soil
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 – Back Home / I Am... I Said (feat. Tiffany Calver, Naima Nefertari and Friendly Pressure)
📍 Sadie Coles HQ, London
🗓️ 05 March – 26 April 2025
Louis Morlæ – $ID3FA££ $YNDR0M3
📍 Rose Easton, London
🗓️ 15 March – 26 April 2025
SORB: Hardcore Uproar
📍 SET Lewisham, London
🗓️ 10–27 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
Pete Gomes – Does the River Listen to the Trees?
In House: Ree Bradley and Pete Gomes
📍 Studio Voltaire, London
🗓️ 02 April – 25 May 2025
Nora Turato – pool7
📍 ICA, London
🗓️ 09 April – 08 Jun 2025
Nazanin Noori – THE ECHO OF PROTEST IS DISTANT TO THE PROTEST
📍 Auto Italia, London
🗓️ 10 April – 22 June 2025
You Make Me Feel (Jeanie Crystal, Zein Majali & Emily Pop)
📍 Southwark Park Galleries, London
🗓️ 05 April – 29 June 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 Library, London
🗓️ 10 March – 19 July 2025
Ed Atkins
📍 Tate Britain, London
🗓️ 02 April – 25 August 2025
Abbas Zahedi – Begin Again
Gathering Ground
📍Tate Modern, London
🗓️ 29 January 2025 – 04 January 2026
Felix Taylor - Hydraulis!
Secrets of the Thames
📍 London Museum Docklands
🗓️ 04 April 2025 – 01 March 2026
🔊 LISTINGS FOR ALL OTHER CITIES 🔊
Tom Richards – Make Your Own Optical Theremin
📍 Bacup Library, Bacup, Lancashire
🗓️ 09 April 2025
Short Circuit: Hear Here
📍 Fabrica, Brighton
🗓️ 10 April 2025
Angela McArthur – Spatial Sound with the IKO Speaker
📍 The Studio in Bath, Bath Spa University, Bath
🗓️ 11 April 2025
Hannan Jones – A Frontier in Depth
📍 Caerleon Roman Amphitheatre, Newport, Wales
🗓️ 12 April 2025
Everyday Algorithms
📍 NewBridge Project, Newcastle
🗓️ 22 Feb – 19 April 2025
Radiophrenia 2025
📍 Glasgow/online
🗓️ 07–20 April 2025
Invisible Flock – The Sleeping Tree
📍 Wakefield Exchange, Wakefield
🗓️ 03–21 April 2025
Debjani Banerjee – Jalsaghar
📍 KARST, Plymouth
🗓️ 01 March - 26 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
Maryanne Royle
Umbrella
📍 Ebor Studio, Littleborough
🗓️ 12 April – 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. Our focus is to cover the work of under-represented artists. If you find these listings useful please share!
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