Pink Loudspeaker • Issue #85
Weekly listings of UK and Irish sound art (02–08 June 2025)
Pink Loudspeaker is your definitive guide to contemporary sound art in the British Isles.
This edition covers all events that can be experienced for the week of Monday 2nd to Sunday 8th June 2025. Scroll down for details on over ninety sonic artworks, exhibitions, performances, workshops, and events taking place this week across the UK and Ireland.
In Issue #85 we cover seaweed-shaped sound sculptures, choreographic objects, gestural rustling, resonant casserole pots, precarious ecologies, algorithmic generative media, Andean sonic ethnographies, indigenous oral histories, tessellated cassette tapes, vinyl totems, sonic walls, and much more…
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Rita Evans – Respondents
London Open Live: Film Programme
📍 Whitechapel Gallery, London
🗓️ 04 June – 07 Sept 2025
Opening this week is Whitechapel Gallery’s London Open Live, a season of performance and live art from a host of international contemporary practitioners. There are many exciting commissions in the programme which feature sound as a primary element, including Will Pegna’s Parasound, Helen Davison’s aggregate; and Roshana Rubin Mayhew’s Feeling the Blues, all of which will take be staged at the gallery throughout the next thirteen weeks. Accompanying the exhibition is a programme of films which explore the relationships and tensions between live performance, mediation, and documentation. Amongst the participating artists is Rita Evans, a musician and artist based in London, who has worked with sound, scores, and sculptural forms in an interdisciplinary context for the last two decades. Evans’ recent projects include last year’s Rock Wobble Pluck, a collection of tactile sculptures and customisable sensory instruments commissioned by Tate Britain; and a colourful listening installation and sound sculptures designed for children at MoMA, New York. For London Open Live’s programme of films, Evans will present her latest audiovisual work, Respondents, a two screen film with surround sound. The project explores the capacity of sound sculptures to act as their own form of sonic notation, blurring distinctions between instrument, performer, and score. The film documents dancer Marguerite Galizia improvising and interacting with Evans’ seaweed-shaped metallic ‘choreographic objects’ to produce a wide range of gestural rustling, creaking, and crackling sounds through extensive physical manipulation.
“In Respondents, seaweed in different material states was observed and embodied by both sculpture-sculptor and performer. At intervals throughout the project, I invited dancer Marguerite Galizia to the studio to move with the structures and sculpted forms as I evolved them. I responded to what happened when Marguerite applied her somatic approach to the sensory field of each of my assemblages, and I further adapted their form. This created an intimate relationship between the bodies of performer, seaweed, material, and sculptor, all within the magnetic push and pull of one another.” – Rita Evans
The London Open Live and its accompanying Film Programme both run at London’s Whitechapel Gallery from Wednesday 4th June until Sunday 7th September 2025.
whitechapelgallery.org
ritaevans.com
Beautiful Collisions
SXSW London
📍Christ Church Spitalfields, London
🗓️ 03–07 June 2025
This week, long-running Texan arts and music festival South by Southwest will make its European debut in London. Across five days, SXSW London will present a conference, music festival, film screenings, events, and exhibitions across venues in the city’s Shoreditch neighbourhood. The Beautiful Collisions exhibition, taking place at Christ Church Spitalfields, will showcase a selection of Caribbean diaspora artists with links to London’s cultural scene, including works from Alvaro Barrington, and collaborative works from Bahamian conceptual artist Tavares Strachan and Jamaican dancehall musician Runkus.
Zinzi Minott will present the latest work from her multimedia Fi Dem series. Every June since 2018, the artist has produced a new work to commemerate the anniversary of the Empire Windrush arriving in England in 1948. The audiovisual project explores themes of explores the legacies of the windrush generation, empire, blackness, diaspora, class, amongst other themes. This eighth iteration of Fi Dem, subtitled Securing Britain’s Future, addresses recent events such as last summer’s Stockport riots and Keir Starmer’s recent announcement on “taking back control of our borders” – and combines found footage and stock content with documentation from the artist’s personal archives. The film’s audio will be diffused through a new sound sculpture entitled YARDSOUND which will get its debut exhibition at Beautiful Collisions. The work features three large Dutch pots, each fitted with custom speaker drivers which will excite the physical resonances of the drum-like aluminium vessels.
“Footage and audio are edited together with stock footage and animations of water and glitches, two recurring visual motifs in her work. For Minott, water reflects the movement of people on Empire Windrush and transatlantic slave trade, whilst the glitch can help us to consider notions of racism one experiences through the span of a Black life.” – Zinzi Minott
Elsewhere at the festival, artist and researcher Damien Roach will present Grounding at The Truman Brewery. The work is an immersive audiovisual installation incorporating algorithmic images and quantum physics to reflect upon the precarious ecologies of the physical and digital worlds.
“In its embrace of the constant motion and change observed across both the vastness of deep time and the microscopic scales of emergent quantum phenomena, Grounding’s never-repeating constellation of image and sound actively encourages an engagement with non-linear, multiperspectival, non-anthropocentric ways of seeing. Borrowing the algorithmic eye of generative media, Grounding points toward an existentially vital emancipation from human-scaled forms of relation with time, matter, the Earth, and other lifeforms in the era of climate crisis and widespread sociopolitical uncertainty.” – Damien Roach
An exhibition at Protein Studios entitled LDN LAB will showcase cutting-edge technological artworks such as Beeple’s generative sculpture The Tree of Knowledge, and works utilising sound and machine learning from Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst.
SXSW London takes place in venues across Shoreditch, Tuesday 3rd to Saturday 7th June 2025.
sxswlondon.com
zinziminott.com
damienroach.com
Gregor Hildebrandt – AUF FALSCHER SEITE IN DIE FALSCHE RICHTUNG
📍 Almine Rech, London
🗓️ 06 June – 26 July 2025
Although his work is silent, German artist Gregor Hildebrandt has been incorporating sound and sonic media into his artworks since the late 1990s. Hildebrandt’s practice involves repurposing vinyl records and magnetic tape into large-scale abstract minimalist murals, sculptures, and installations. Hundreds of cassette tapes are tessellated into parquet flooring installations, and LPs are frequently re-moulded into totem-like structures. The artist has stated that even though his works do not produce audible sound, it is important that all media is imbued, or “charged” with specific songs or sounds. All tapes are dubbed before they are unspooled and repurposed as canvases. AUF FALSCHER SEITE IN DIE FALSCHE RICHTUNG is Hildebrandt’s latest solo exhibition at London’s Almine Rech, his ninth for the gallery. The show presents a number of new wall-based and three-dimensional works, described by the artist in intriguingly idiosyncratic terms such as ‘sonic walls,' ‘cassette shelves,’ and ‘rip-off audiotape paintings.’
Gregor Hildebrandt’s AUF FALSCHER SEITE IN DIE FALSCHE RICHTUNG opens at London’s Almine Rech on Friday 6th Jun 2025 and runs until Saturday 26th July 2025.
alminerech.com
gregorhildebrandt.com
Sur Andina: Intersection of Sensory Design and Andean Cosmovisión
London Design Biennale 2025
📍 Somerset House, London
🗓️ 05–29 June 2025
This week, the fifth edition of the London Design Biennale will open at London’s Somerset House. This year’s theme is Surface Reflections, with a programme boasting over forty pavilions from around the world engaging with the experiential and environmental aspects of design. In the Argentine pavilion will be Sur Andina, a multisensory installation combining light, sound, and textiles, representing a journey across the Andes mountains.
The installation has been created by Madre Tierra Designers, led by London-based Argentinian sound artist Iliana Díaz López and textile artist Cindy Lilen. The work builds upon the themes of Díaz López’s long-running Cosmovisional Sound Stories project which explores the representation of native communities and environment through sonic ethnography. For this new installation Díaz López has created an immersive multi-channel sound installation blending environmental field recordings, composition, sound design, and the oral histories of indigenous communities. The installation is completed with Lilen’s large-scale illuminated sculpture, constructed with traditional Patagonian techniques and traditional natural fibres such as alpaca, vicuña, and llama wool.
“We want the senses to connect with the landscape, to feel the power of the land and the legacy of the Andean peoples. My San Juan heritage is present in every detail of this work. It's a tribute to the Andean mountain range, which shaped my childhood and my identity.” – Iliana Díaz López
Experience Sur Andina at the London Design Biennale at Somerset House from Thursday 5th until Sunday 29th June 2025.
londondesignbiennale.com
madretierradesigners.com
thefactorysound.com
Opportunities
• Isobel Anderson will host a free online field recording workshop for women through her Girls Twiddling Knobs platform. The workshop will take place at 10am on Wednesday 25th June 2025 and will cover production, gear, technique, and many other aspects of working with environmental recordings. Sign up here: girlstwiddlingknobs.com
• Sound Thought are collaborating with the Glasgow Science Festival for a second year. The collective will curate another installation at the Kibble Palace in the city’s historic botanic gardens in June 2025 and are seeking audio contributions for their multi-channel soundwork. Deadline: Sunday 8th June 2025. soundthought.co.uk + instagram.com/sound_thought
• Chicago’s Experimental Sound Studio seeks proposals for multi-channel sound compositions that will be played through their 24-channel loudspeaker array at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion for the Sonic Pavilion 2025. Deadline: Friday 13th June 2025. ess.org
• Cockpit Studios in Deptford currently have an open call for sound artists to present performances and workshops for their Dialogues of Space event series. The venue are seeking artists from south-east London (prioritising artists based in Lewisham, Greenwich, Peckham, and Camberwell). Deadline: Friday 16th June 2025. instagram.com/springcafecockpit
• Cornish organisation Dyski have open calls for two sound-related artist residencies in the Cornish landscape later this year: Paul Cousins will host Composing With Tape and in November Tom Whitwell will lead Radio Music dedicated to radio experimentation. Grants are available to allow artists with financial barriers to participate. Deadlines: Sunday 20th July and Friday 1st August 2025 respectively. dyski.co
• The UK’s long-running Sonic Arts Forum currently has an open call for participation in an event on 15th November 2025 at the Swansea College of Art. The call is seeking individuals who are interested in presenting their work in person and receiving feedback in a friendly and supportive environment. A good opportunity to network but travel and accommodation will not be covered by the host organisation. Deadline: Friday 15th August 2025. facebook.com/groups/sonicarts
Full listings
Everything on this week: 2nd to 8th June 2025
Below are over ninety sound art exhibitions, events, performances, public lectures, and workshops taking place across the UK and Ireland this week. Events and exhibitions are sorted by closing date. Opening hours may vary 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 across the UK and Ireland.
🔊 LONDON LISTINGS 🔊
LCC/CRiSAP Sound Arts Lecture Series: Simnikiwe Buhlungu
📍 LCC, London / online
🗓️ 05 June 2025
Beautiful Collisions
SXSW London
📍Christ Church Spitalfields, London
🗓️ 03–07 June 2025
* featured in Pink Loudspeaker #85
LDN LAB
SXSW London
📍Protein Studios, London
🗓️ 03–07 June 2025
* featured in Pink Loudspeaker #85
Toast To The Void
📍 And Not Or Gallery, London
🗓️ 04–07 June 2025
back2back: Archival Bodies
📍 V&A East, London
🗓️ 07 June 2025
Damien Roach – Grounding
SXSW London
📍The Truman Brewery, London
🗓️ 02–07 June 2025
* featured in Pink Loudspeaker #85
Sophie Standford – Dialogues
📍 DIVFUSE, London
🗓️ 06–08 June 2025
Nora Turato – pool7
📍 ICA, London
🗓️ 09 April – 08 Jun 2025
Fan Bangyu & Ellis Berwick – CANON(s)
📍 Small-Time Projects, London
🗓️ 31 May – 14 June 2025
* featured in Pink Loudspeaker #84
Fari Bradley – PSA – Public Service Announcement
Fashioning Frequencies
📍 London College of Fashion, London
🗓️ 25 April – 21 June 2025
Nazanin Noori – THE ECHO OF PROTEST IS DISTANT TO THE PROTEST
📍 Auto Italia, London
🗓️ 10 April – 22 June 2025
* featured in Pink Loudspeaker #77
Sur Andina: Intersection of Sensory Design and Andean Cosmovisión
London Design Biennale 2025
📍 Somerset House, London
🗓️ 05–29 June 2025
* featured in Pink Loudspeaker #85
You Make Me Feel (Jeanie Crystal, Zein Majali & Emily Pop)
📍 Southwark Park Galleries, London
🗓️ 05 April – 29 June 2025
Rebel Radio
📍 Barbican Centre, London
🗓️ 01–30 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
Gregor Hildebrandt – AUF FALSCHER SEITE IN DIE FALSCHE RICHTUNG
📍 Almine Rech, London
🗓️ 06 June – 26 July 2025
* featured in Pink Loudspeaker #85
Michaela Yearwood-Dan – No Time for Despair
📍 Hauser & Wirth, London
🗓️ 13 May – 02 August 2025
Manifesto for Sustainable Experimentation
📍 Beaconsfield, London
🗓️ 21 May – 02 August 2025
Darren Emerson – In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats
📍 Barbican, London
🗓️ 22 May – 03 Aug 2025
Ed Atkins
📍 Tate Britain, London
🗓️ 02 April – 25 August 2025
Feel the Sound
📍 Barbican, London
🗓️ 22 May – 31 August 2025
* featured in Pink Loudspeaker #83
Rita Evans – Respondents
London Open Live: Film Programme
📍 Whitechapel Gallery, London
🗓️ 04 June – 07 Sept 2025
* featured in Pink Loudspeaker #85
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
* featured in Pink Loudspeaker #79
María Magdalena Campos-Pons and Neil Leonard
📍 Tate Modern, London
🗓️ 10 March – 19 October 2025
* featured in Pink Loudspeaker #83
Abbas Zahedi – Begin Again
Gathering Ground
📍Tate Modern, London
🗓️ 29 January 2025 – 04 January 2026
* featured in Pink Loudspeaker #77
Felix Taylor - Hydraulis!
Secrets of the Thames
📍 London Museum Docklands
🗓️ 04 April 2025 – 01 March 2026
🔊 LISTINGS FOR ALL OTHER CITIES 🔊
Site and Sound Symposium
📍 101 Outdoor Arts, Thatcham
🗓️ 03 June 2025
Boris Allenou – Acous-Tick
📍 University of Surrey, Guildford
🗓️ 03 June 2025
Ulster Sound Gallery: PhD Research Showcase in Immersive Music
📍 Ulster University, Derry
🗓️ 04 June 2025
Nature Calling Conversations #1: Rob St John & Ruth Allen
📍 online
🗓️ 04 June 2025
Adam Gibney – Tidal Composition 1: Fall and Rise
📍 Balbriggan Library, Co. Dublin
🗓️ 15 May – 05 June 2025
* featured in Pink Loudspeaker #84
Sound and the Outdoors: Base Frequencies Lab
📍 101 Outdoor Arts, Thatcham
🗓️ 04–06 June 2025
Andy Cluer – Moorland
📍 Kingsgate Project Space, London
🗓️ 16 May – 07 Jun 2025
* featured in Pink Loudspeaker #82
Penumbra
New Music Biennial 2025
📍 Loading Bay, Bradford
🗓️ 06 June 2025
Bantam's Drift
New Music Biennial 2025
📍 The Underground, Bradford
🗓️ 06 June 2025
Moth x Human
New Music Biennial 2025
📍 Loading Bay, Bradford
🗓️ 07 June 2025
Threads of Sound: A Woollen Heritage
New Music Biennial 2025
📍 Loading Bay, Bradford
🗓️ 07 June 2025
Voice Notes
New Music Biennial 2025
📍 Loading Bay, Bradford
🗓️ 08 June 2025
Conor Browne – >user#14051974; give me space and money >user#10082003; no
Glasgow School of Art Degree Show 2025
📍Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow
🗓️ 29 May – 08 June 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
Ben Chernett – A Choir Of Hastings And St Leonards
Glimpse
📍 Unit 2, St. Leonards
🗓️ 30 May – 08 June 2025
Rachel Karasik – Trickle Down
Glimpse
📍 Unit 2, St. Leonards
🗓️ 30 May – 08 June 2025
Digital Music & Sound Arts Graduate Show 2025
📍University of Brighton, Brighton
🗓️ 31 May – 10 June 2025
Sound and Silence: An Exhibition of Contemporary Bells
📍 MAKE Southwest, Bovey Tracey
🗓️ 22 March – 14 June 2025
* featured in Pink Loudspeaker #74
Prototypes for Cyborgs – A Space Opera
📍 Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal, Ireland
🗓️ 12 April – 14 June 2025
* featured in Pink Loudspeaker #82
Justin Wiggan – Echoes of Blossom
Festival of Blossom
📍 Trerice, Newquay
🗓️ 25 May – 14 June 2025
Tape Letters
Bradford 2025
📍 Loading Bay, Bradford
🗓️ 22 May – 15 June 2025
Bobby Jewell & Andrey Chugunov – You Are Not Made of Sugar
📍 Kiosk, Glasgow
🗓️ 07–15 June 2025
Karen Heald & Susan Matthews – Tsuyu / Plum Rain
In Progress
📍 Tŷ Pawb, Wrexham
🗓️ 09 May – 21 June 2025
Duncan Speakman - Only Expansion
📍 Undershed, Bristol
🗓️ 02 May – 22 June 2025
Soft Power
📍 Standalone, London
🗓️ 30 May – 27 June 2025
* featured in Pink Loudspeaker #84
Glasgow Requiem: The Walk – communal walks
📍 St. Mungo’s RC Church, Glasgow
🗓️ 03 May – 28 June 2025 (every Saturday at 2pm)
DRIFT: Love Letter to Pendle Rise
📍 Pendle Rise, Nelson
🗓️ 21 May – 28 June 2025
Phil Coy – Sixty Beats Per Minute
📍 St. George's Church, Ramsgate
🗓️ 02 May – 29 June 2025
* featured in Pink Loudspeaker #82
In Between Time – BIRD
📍 Tyntesfield, Bristol
🗓️ 02 May – 29 June 2025
Gary Stewart soundscape installation
Tapestry of Black Britons
📍 Arnolfini, Bristol
🗓️ 09 May – 29 June 2025
Paul Nataraj – Blue and White Through Thick and Thin
Rovers – 150 Years
📍 Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery, Blackburn
🗓️ 09 April – 29 June 2025
Colin Woods - I Just Called
📍 Belfast (various libraries)
🗓️ Oct 2024 – 29 June 2025
FRAMERATE: Pulse of the Earth
📍 Undershed, Bristol
🗓️ 02 May – 13 July 2025
Resounding Diasporic Sonic Worlds: Archives of Music, Resistance and Community
📍 The NewBridge Project, Newcastle
🗓️ 10 May – 19 July 2025
* featured in Pink Loudspeaker #81
Mishka Henner & Emily Speed – Energy House 2.0
📍 Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
🗓️ 04 May – 20 July 2025
* featured in Pink Loudspeaker #81
Alia Syed – The Ring in the Fish
📍 CCA Glasgow, Glasgow
🗓️ 17 May – 26 July 2025
James Bulley – The Mother Goose Series
📍 The Glasshouse, Gateshead
🗓️ 23 April – July 2025
Martin Barraud – Echoes – Halo of the South
📍 Marina Curve, Dover
🗓️ 16 April – summer 2025
Satch Hoyt - Cross Rhythmic Delay
📍 Beam, Nottingham
🗓️ 31 May – 06 September 2025
Your Ears Later Will Know to Listen
📍 Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
🗓️ 31 May – 07 Sept 2025
* featured in Pink Loudspeaker #84
Mary Hooper – The Sun Feeds the Wind
📍 Hastings Contemporary, Hastings
🗓️ 29 March – 14 Sept 2025
* featured in Pink Loudspeaker #75
Emma Critchley – Soundings
📍 Tate St Ives, St Ives
🗓️ 24 May – 21 Sept 2025
* featured in Pink Loudspeaker #82
The Secret Lives of Bottle of Notes: Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen📍 MIMA, Middlesbrough
🗓️ 14 March – 05 October 2025
Earth & Sky immersive sound walks
📍 Penistone Hill Country Park
🗓️ 24 May – 12 Oct 2025
* featured in Pink Loudspeaker #83
Maureen Jordan – On The Lookout
📍 The Himalayan Garden and Sculpture Park, Yorkshire
🗓️ 08 April – 02 November 2025
Ann Hamilton - We Will Sing
Bradford 2025
📍 Salts Mill, Bradford
🗓️ 03 May – 02 Nov 2025
* featured in Pink Loudspeaker #81
ORIGIN
📍 Dunham Massey, Altrincham
🗓️ 03 May – 02 November 2025
* featured in Pink Loudspeaker #81
A Field Hospital for Eco-Anxiety
📍 Dunham Massey, Altrincham
🗓️ 03 May – 02 November 2025
* featured in Pink Loudspeaker #81
Sophie Cooper & Babs Smith – Immersive Greenbooth
📍 Greenbooth Reservoir, Rochdale
🗓️ 03 May – 04 Nov 2025
Lizzie King – Connecting the Tree and the Foot
Fragments of Time
📍 Salford Museum & Art Gallery, Salford
🗓️ 22 March – 21 Dec 2025
* featured in Pink Loudspeaker #74
Heather Mullender-Ross – All the Better to Hear You With
📍 Allan Bank, Grasmere, Lake District
🗓️ 01 April – 21 Dec 2025
* featured in Pink Loudspeaker #82
Resonant Forms
📍 The Hepworth, Wakefield
🗓️ 08 March 2025 – January 2026
* featured in Pink Loudspeaker #73
Marshmallow Laser Feast – You:Matter
📍 National Science and Media Museum, Bradford
🗓️ 03 April 2025 – 22 February 2026
Tale Telt: Real Voices Sharing Fantastic Cumbrian Tales
📍 Keswick Museum, Lake District
🗓️ 24 May – summer 2026
Glasgow Requiem: The Walk
📍 St. Mungo’s RC Church, Glasgow
🗓️ 17 April 2025 – 2028
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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