Pink Loudspeaker • Issue #79
Weekly listings of UK and Irish sound art (21–27 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 21st to Sunday 27th April 2025. Scroll down for details on sixty-nine sonic artworks, exhibitions, performances, workshops, and events across the UK and Ireland that you can experience this week.
Issue #79 we cover salt-divining courtesans, brass band processions, nasal resonances, the cultural currencies of oral languages, illuminated spinning goose feathers, ghostly tunnels, wind-activated synthesisers, simian statue vocalisations, chanted Sanskrit mantras, acoustic commons, sonic migration, and more…
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Hylozoic/Desires – The Salt March
📍 Tate Britain, London
🗓️ 22 April 2025 (18.30–20.00)
Hylozoic/Desires is the project of writer and interdisciplinary artist Himali Singh Soin and percussionist, composer and performance artist David Soin Tappeser. Their collaborative work explores themes of ecology and migration through a range of media and formats, often utilising sound and composition in evocative ways. As part of their exhibition at London’s Tate Britain gallery, The Hedge of Halomancy (which runs until 25th August), the artist duo will debut The Salt March, a new performance piece. The performance will extend the subject matter of the exhibition and recent works which critically reflect upon the history and legacy of the Inland Customs Line a vast 4000km barrier erected by the East India Company to restrict salt trade and enforce strict taxation across the Indian subcontinent. The Salt March will evoke the spirit of non-violent protests and feature a salt-divining courtesan who will lead a brass band procession through the gallery.
“Inspired by the ubiquitous Indian wedding bands, this performance reflects on the legacies and entanglements of Empire and its colonies. Here, a contemporary score becomes a form of resistance, celebration and unification in a time of erasure, grief and division.” – Tate
Experience The Salt March by Hylozoic/Desires at Tate Britain, London on Tuesday 22nd April 2025, 6.30–8pm.
tate.org.uk
himalisinghsoin.com
davidsointappeser.com
Christine Sun Kim & Thomas Mader – 1880 THAT
📍 Wellcome Collection, London
🗓️ 17 April – 16 Nov 2025
London’s Wellcome Collection hosts 1880 THAT, a new exhibition by Berlin-based artists Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader. Sun Kim is an American sonic and visual artist whose work explores the role that sound plays in contemporary culture and in communication. Born Deaf and brought up in a signing household, her work offers a much-needed perspective on sound and listening that is often neglected within the highly-auraltypical field of sonic arts. This new exhibition, a collaboration with German conceptual artist Thomas Mader, presents a collection of new and recent sculptures, drawings and multimedia works that examine the cultural currency of oral languages and the historical challenges and discrimination that sign language users have faced in education and wider society.
Colourful sound sculpture Look Up My Nose is one such artwork on display. Its form is modelled on the noses of Alexander Graham Bell (inventor of the telephone) and other individuals who advocated for oralism and the supression of sign languages at an international conference in Milan in 1880. The repercussions of this event on the deaf community are still felt today and Look Up My Nose reflects this acoustically. The large fibreglass sculpture is rendered in medical green and features a drum-like membrane, which rhythmically struck by a mechanical arm every ten minutes. These sonic actions are designed to resonate the gallery space so as to be physically felt with the whole body, not just by the ear.
1880 THAT by Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader is open until Sunday 16th November 2025 at Wellcome Collection, London.
wellcomecollection.org
christinesunkim.com
thomasmader.net
Mark Anderson & Liam Walsh – State of Alarm
📍 High Angle Battery, Portland
🗓️ 26–27 April 2025
Mark Anderson has been producing large-scale artworks for outdoor environments for the last thirty years. If you’ve been in the scene for a while you may have experienced the successful Power Plant touring installation back in the 2000s, or more recently caught his Phantom Field work on the Audible Forces tour or at Fort Process festival. Anderson describes himself as a “visual sound artist” for his sculptural approach to sound and attention to materials. His site-responsive installations tackle ecological awareness and environmental issues through a combination of kinetic sculptural instruments, electronics, pyrotechnics, and various sound and light producing materials. As part of B-side Festival’s current programme, Anderson will team up with long-term collaborator Liam Walsh to bring new artwork State of Alarm to the Isle of Portland. This weekend wind-activated synthesisers, illuminated spinning goose feathers, and explosive pyrotechnics are amongst the elements that will be installed in the ‘Ghost Tunnels’, chambers, and other spaces of the island’s Verne High Angle Battery, a former military defence structure overlooking the English channel. Like previous works, State of Alarm promises to offer visitors a highly-immersive experience with a curious interplay of sonic, kinetic, and visual elements.
Experience State of Alarm at the High Angle Battery on the isle of Portland, Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th April 2025, 2–7pm.
b-side.org.uk
https://mark-anderson.uk/
Nicola Singh: Sincere Seeker
📍 Cubitt Gallery, London
🗓️ 24 April – 31 May 2025
This week Angel’s Cubitt Gallery will present Sincere Seeker, the latest solo exhibition from Newcastle-born artist Nicola Singh. The exhibition will feature new sculptural works, sound, and performance. Singh’s practice utilises sound and the voice to explore representations and agency of the female body. At the heart of the exhibition will be three sound sculptures in the form of monkey statues. These statues will produce a sonic stream of consciousness, with improvised vocalisations made by the artist informed by her training in North Indian classical music; alongside chanted Sanskrit mantras; simian field recordings, and other speculative sonic references. The restless nature of the sounds invoke the Buddhist concept of the ‘monkey mind’ – a state of mind dominated by continuous internal rumination.
“In this solo presentation at Cubitt, the gallery becomes home to three monkey statues, cast from a soft-toy monkey that belonged to her Dad. The manifold meanings of these monkeys include; their familial significance to Singh; the mantra of the three wise monkeys (See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil); the concept of the ‘monkey mind’, an East Asian metaphor for a restless thinker, seeking meaning and interconnectedness through wandering thoughts; and as vessels for sound and the somatic science of the Sanskrit alphabet.” – Cubitt Gallery
Nicola Singh’s Sincere Seeker opens at Cubitt Gallery, London on Thursday 24th April and runs until Saturday 31st May 2025.
cubittartists.org.uk
nicolasingh.co.uk
The Acoustic Commons of the East Atlantic Flyway: Migratory Songbirds Arrive in Cloudesley Square
📍 The Writers’ Room, London
🗓️ 26 April 2025
During April artist Catherine Clover has been in residence at The Writers’ Room, a residential programme exploring the intersections of art and literature hosted by Wild Pansy Press in Islington. Clover works between London and Melbourne, Australia, and explores sound, listening, and language through an ecological lens, with a focus on multi-species ethics and the more-than-human world. During this residency, the artist has been developing a project concerning migratory birds who are currently settling in London’s green spaces for the summer – within the emergent framework of the ‘Acoustic Commons’. Concluding her residency, The Wrtiers’ Room will host a performance by Clover and seven collaborators who will explore themes of sonic migration, multispecies soundscapes, communal listening, and more.
Experience The Acoustic Commons of the East Atlantic Flyway: Migratory songbirds arrive in Cloudesley Square at The Writers’ Room, London from 3pm on Saturday 26th April 2025.
writersroom.org.uk
ciclover.com
Opportunities
• In July, The Orpheus Instituut in Brussels will host the Sound Craft Summer School, a summer course for sound artists, composers and performers to develop individual projects with new objects, interfaces and instruments, hardware, and software. Deadline: 30 April 2025. orpheusinstituut.be
• Seismograf is a Danish magazine dedicated to new music and sound art. There is an open call for proposals, seeking audio papers and texts that exploring notions of ‘Sonic Citizenship.’ Deadline: 1st May 2025. seismograf.org
• North-East Scotland’s Sound are seeking proposals from an early-career Scottish composer or performer to curate an event at this year’s soundfestival in October. Deadline: 4th May 2025. sound-scotland.co.uk
• Undercurrent, the inaugural ESEA Sound and Performance Art Festival will take place at the Copeland Gallery in London this September. ESEA (East and Southeast Asian) artists working with sound and performance can submit proposals for participation at this link. Deadline: 15th May 2025. instagram.com/_under_current
• The newly-launched Sound + Environment Research Group at Newcastle University is seeking papers, workshops and artwork contributions for its inaugural symposium in September 2025. Deadline: 29th May 2025. blogs.ncl.ac.uk/sound-environment
• The Sound in Museums conference will take place in October 2025 at the National Museum of Music in Mafra, Portugal. The conference is seeking papers and multimedia installations from academics, curators, arts professionals, sound artists, composers, sound designers, audio engineers, technology developers, heritage specialists, and acousticians. Deadline: 30th April 2025. soundinmuseums.com
Full listings
Everything on this week: 21–27 April 2025
Below are sixty-nine sound art exhibitions, events, performances, public lectures, and workshops that you can experience this week across the UK and Ireland.
Events and exhibitions are sorted by closing date. Opening hours may vary (especially during the Easter break) so please check with venues before venturing out! All London events are grouped together at the top, scroll down for events for all other locations.
🔊 LONDON LISTINGS 🔊
Margaret Fiedler McGinnis – Present Participles
📍 Three Rooms, London
🗓️ 15–21 April 2025
Citra Sasmita – Into Eternal Land
📍 Barbican, London
🗓️ 30 January – 21 Apr 2025
Confidence Man & Jimmy Cauty – Emergency Chill Clinic
📍 81 King's Road (Chelsea), London
🗓️ 17–21 April 2025
Hylozoic/Desires – The Salt March
📍 Tate Britain, London
🗓️ 22 April 2025 (18.30–20.00)
Preemptive Listening screening + Aura Satz in conversation with Khalid Abdalla
📍 Curzon Soho, London
🗓️ 22 April 2025
The Binaural Human
📍 Riverside TV Studios, London
🗓️ 23 April 2025
NOCTURN [04]: The Sound is the Shrine feat. Evan Ifekoya
📍 17 Little Portland Street, London
🗓️ 24 April 2025
LCC/CRiSAP Sound Arts Lecture Series: Lara Geary
📍 LCC, London / online
🗓️ 24 April 2025
Vexations
📍 Southbank Centre, London
🗓️ 24–25 April 2025
The Acoustic Commons of the East Atlantic Flyway: Migratory songbirds arrive in Cloudesley Square
📍 The Writers’ Room, London
🗓️ 26 April 2025
JAYKOE – Anam Cara Remix (Shebeen I / Pirate Station)
📍 Metroland Cultures, London
🗓️ 18–26 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
Preemptive Listening screening + Aura Satz in conversation with Alisa Lebow
📍 Curzon Bloomsbury, London
🗓️ 27 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
Moving Grounds: 15 Years of Duchamp & Sons
📍 Whitechapel Gallery, London
🗓️ 05 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
Ella Wong – Drifting Clouds / Sound of Sea
Shifting Grounds
📍 Hypha Gallery 2 Sugar House Island, Newham, London
🗓️ 18 April – 24 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
Send & Receive
📍 Hypha Gallery 1 Sugar House Island, Newham, London
🗓️ 18 April – 25 May 2025
Nicola Singh: Sincere Seeker
📍 Cubitt Gallery, London
🗓️ 24 April – 31 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
Eija-Liisa Ahtila – Horizontal–Vaakasuora
The Power of Trees
📍 Kew Gardens, London
🗓️ 12 April – 14 September 2025
Marshmallow Laser Feast – Of The Oak
📍 Kew Gardens, London
🗓️ 03 May – 28 September 2025
Christine Sun Kim & Thomas Mader – 1880 THAT
📍 Wellcome Collection, London
🗓️ 17 April – 16 Nov 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 🔊
Invisible Flock – The Sleeping Tree
📍 Wakefield Exchange, Wakefield
🗓️ 03–21 April 2025
DVRK MASS II | Sonic Transformations: Ecosystems
📍 Off The Square, Manchester
🗓️ 23 April 2025
Resonant Isle: Sound, Light, Sea & Stone
📍 Sandy Hill Arts, Corfe, Dorset
🗓️ 26 April 2025
Boris Allenou – Recording the Sounds of Edinburgh
📍 Institut Français, Edinburgh
🗓️ 26 April 2025
Playspace Open Day
📍 The Playspace, Glasgow
🗓️ 26 April 2025
Field Trip: A Day of Field recording on Arran
📍 Isle of Arran, Scotland
🗓️ 26 April 2025
Debjani Banerjee – Jalsaghar
📍 KARST, Plymouth
🗓️ 01 March - 26 April 2025
Signal Flow: A One Day Festival of Experimental and Electronic Music
📍 Playhouse, Derry
🗓️ 27 April 2025
Mark Anderson & Liam Walsh – State of Alarm
📍 High Angle Battery, Portland
🗓️ 26–27 April 2025
Kate Paul – Whatever is called the world (38 min 28 sec)
📍 Listen Gallery, Glasgow
🗓️ 19–27 April 2025
Hannan Jones – A Frontier in Depth
📍 National Roman Legion Museum, Newport, Wales
🗓️ 12–27 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
See Here Now: Art in a Time of Urgency
📍 Grizedale, Lake District
🗓️ 04 April – 08 June 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
Maureen Jordan – On The Lookout
📍 The Himalayan Garden and Sculpture Park, Yorkshire
🗓️ 08 April – 02 November 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
Marshmallow Laser Feast – You:Matter
📍 National Science and Media Museum, Bradford
🗓️ 03 April 2025 – 22 February 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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