Pink Loudspeaker • Issue #93
Weekly listings of UK and Irish sound art (28 July – 03 August 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 28th July to Sunday 3rd August 2025. Scroll down for details on 90+ sonic artworks, exhibitions, performances, workshops, and events taking place this week across the UK and Ireland.
In Issue #93 we discuss the low rumble of collective memory, etched leather loudspeakers, the sensorial qualities of making, dream-like sonic articulation, percussive resonances, rhythmic acoustic distortion, and much more…
Paul Nataraj – We Sound Each Other
Contested Desires: Constructed Dialogues
📍 Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle upon Tyne
🗓️ 17–29 July 2025
Currently showing at the Great North Museum: Hancock museum in Newcastle is the Contested Desires: Constructed Dialogues exhibition. The exhibition shares some artistic outcomes from a three-year cultural project which seeks to challenge the impact and legacies of colonisation found within museum collections and heritage archives. The project has brought together projects from twenty-two contemporary artists from Europe, Africa, and South America, with its programme continuing into 2026. Seven of these artists are presenting works at the group exhibition in Newcastle, including sound artist Paul Nataraj who has a long history of using sound and sonic media to engage with postcolonial themes. Nataraj’s previous work, Repetitions of 108: Counting Almost Nothing, featured an array of nine modified record players with hand-etched vinyl. The installation toured nationally as part of this year’s Jerwood Survey. In Newcastle, Nataraj presents a new nine-channel sound installation entitled We Sound Each Other, reflecting upon the ideologies of contested spaces and stories of migration. The installation consists of a collection of bespoke loudspeakers, fabricated with the assistance of sound artist and technician Jo Christman. These loudspeakers pair conventional speaker drivers in a range of sizes with etched leather diaphragms. The leather pieces make reference to the material’s history of being used to bind passports, law statutes, and official documentation, reflecting upon its legacies of power and nationalised identity.
The sonic content of the work draw from the Nataraj’s experiences in Budapest and Newcastle, where he worked with local immigrant communities as an artist in residence. The leatherwork for the speakers was created in collaboration with these communities. Etching into the leather, participants physically committed their personal lived experiences of migration and identity into the material. Nataraj conducted ethnographic interviews and field recordings in both cities, weaving these alongside spoken word, political speeches, and musical elements from songs written during the Hungarian Uprising. We Sound Each Other embraces the sensorial and affective capabilities of sound to recontextualise the past, revealing hidden and marginalised histories. The artist describes this creative process as giving voice to the “low rumble of collective memory.”
Experience Paul Nataraj’s We Sound Each Other in the Contested Desires: Constructed Dialogues exhibtion at the Great North Museum: Hancock in Newcastle until Tuesday 29th July 2025.
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paulnataraj.uk
Pippa Eason – Four-fold Reverie
📍 PINK, Stockport
🗓️ 02 August – 05 October 2025
Opening later this week at Stockport’s PINK is Four-fold Reverie, a major new solo exhibition from artist Pippa Eason. Eason is a Manchester-based artist known for her immersive mixed-media installations which address personal themes such as neurodivergence and body dysmorphia through a range of materials and processes. Informed by the artist’s reflective, autoethnographic approach, Eason’s work often comments on the complexities of living with, and understanding one’s own body. The exhibition represents the culmination of a year-long period of artistic development for Eason, and also marks the start of a new curatorial programme for PINK, which arrives after a long period of relocation, renovation, and research. Their forthcoming exhibitions and events programme, led by director Katy Morrison, will thematically focus on care, context, and co-creation. Four-fold Reverie will showcase a brand new body of multi-sensory artworks, expanding Eason’s practice into new modes of working. The artist will present ceramic and moving image works for the first time, alongside sculptures, light, scent, and sound.
Four-fold Reverie features four distinct environments, each with its own spatial arrangement and sensorial characteristics. Each of the spaces are uniquely structured, designed to represent one of four psychological states: softness, friction, suspension, and vitality. At the heart of these environments is a series of ceramic sculptures in a range of raw, imperfect forms. These works reflect the artist’s experimental approach which prioritises the sensorial and material qualities of making, embodying the many acts of transformation experienced moment to moment. The sonic aspect of the installation is provided by London-based Malaysian composer and sound designer Jia Lee. Lee has worked with PINK before, contributing a site-responsive soundtrack to Nicola Dale’s Insert Yourself exhibition at the gallery’s previous site, back in 2022. For Four-fold Reverie, Lee responds directly to emotive qualities of the visual artworks, constructing a dream-like ambient work designed to sonically articulate the tactile and textural qualities of Eason’s raw, hand-formed ceramic sculptures.
“Four-fold Reverie is a meditation on the politics of making, the poetics of material, and the necessity of self-reflection. Through clay, light, sound, and space, Eason offers a framework for feeling—an architecture of emotion that asks not for answers, but for presence; not for resolution, but for the courage to dwell in uncertainty, to live with complexity, and, at last, begin to feel at ease in one’s own skin.” – PINK
A preview of Pippa Eason’s Four-fold Reverie takes place at Stockport’s PINK on Thursday 31st July, with the exhibition running from Saturday 2nd August until Sunday 5th October 2025.
felix taylor – Private Ceremony
📍 Outhouse Gallery, London
🗓️ 31 July – 10 August 2025
Nestled in Camberwell’s leafy Brunswick Park is Outhouse Gallery, a former public washroom which for the last year has been running as an intimate independent art gallery. Opening later this week at the gallery is Private Ceremony, a new solo exhibition by sound artist and electroacoustic composer felix taylor. taylor’s practice often incorporates field recording, sound design, radio transmissions, producing performances, installations, and sound for moving image which examine the nature of perception from a Black positionality. This new exhibition reflects taylor’s current research interests in exploring tensions between sounds and their mediation, experimenting with the transformation of recorded sounds through amplification and distortion. Private Ceremony has been described by the artist as both an installation and a space for listening, designed to prompt curiosity around “how we listen and the things we hear.” In preparation for the exhibition, taylor prepared a collection of graphic scores which reflect upon his childhood and his British and Ghanaian heritage, focusing on the tensions between physical presence and absence. The scores were interpreted by a number of musicians, performers, and youth participants, with their responses worked into the installation’s sonic material.
In the installation, sounds will be diffused through an array of radio receivers and a number of custom-built sculptural loudspeakers. These loudspeakers are essentially modified plates of sheet metal fitted with transducers and sculptural elements such as sea shells, rope, and miniature cymbals, which percussively rattle when resonated. As audio is sent into the materials via the transducers, the fidelity of the signals are deliberately altered, colouring the sounds with a rhythmic acoustic distortion.
“I always try to see sound for all its physical properties. It functions by affecting air and space and changes in regards to its environment and the amount of objects and bodies it shares that air and space with. To me, that makes it a sculptural medium, especially when listened to collectively. Like I said, it's an invisible presence, it has the ability to completely occupy and fill a space it's in.” – felix taylor
Private Ceremony runs at London’s Outhouse Gallery from Thursday 31st July until Sunday 10th August 2025.
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felixtaylor.co.uk
Opportunities
• Sound artist Emily Peasgood is offering free mentoring for women based in the North West. More information can be found on Emily’s Instagram page. Deadline: Friday 1st August 2025. instagram.com/empeasgood
• The Digital Media and Arts Research Centre at the University of Limerick have announced a new paid residency programme for Irish and international composers. Deadline: Friday 1st August 2025. cmc.ie
• Cornish organisation Dyski have open calls for two sound-related artist residencies in the Cornish landscape later this year: Helen Anahita Wilson will lead a residency on Biophilic Sound; and in November Tom Whitwell will run Radio Music dedicated to radio experimentation. Grants are available to allow artists with financial barriers to participate. Deadlines: Friday 1st August, and Monday 1st September 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
• Sonica, Glasgow’s renowned biennial for sound art have announced an open call for their next edition which will take place in September–October 2026. The festival seeks existing sound installations, audiovisual performances, and more. Deadline: Monday 25th August 2025. sonic-a.co.uk
• Sonorities Festival, Belfast’s long-running biennial for new music and sound art have announced their next edition will take place in April 2026. The festival has open calls in eight categories, seeking sound installations, soundwalks, ambisonic works, talks, and more. Deadline: Sunday 31st August 2025. sonorities.net
Full listings
Everything on this week: 28th July to 3rd August 2025.
Below are 90+ 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 🔊
Manifold 2.0 (Goldsmiths Staff Show)
📍 St. James Hatcham Building, London
🗓️ 28 July 2025
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 August 2025
Aaron Williamson – Creating Slangon
📍 Whitechapel Gallery, London
🗓️ 02–03 August 2025
Listen, World! — Thomas Mann & New Tomorrows
📍 Bold Tendencies, London
🗓️ 03 August 2025
Action Pyramid – Materials Unknown
📍 Microscope, London
🗓️ 24 July – 08 August 2025
Madeleine Ruggi – Distress Purchase
Soft Landing
📍 Palmer Gallery, London
🗓️ 11 July – 09 August 2025
felix taylor – Private Ceremony
📍 Outhouse Gallery, London
🗓️ 31 July – 10 August 2025
* featured in Pink Loudspeaker #93
Mikhail Karikis – Songs for the Storm to Come
📍 The Showroom, London
🗓️ 27 June – 16 August 2025
Locus of Voices
📍 Proposition, London
🗓️ 20 June – 17 August 2025
Debjani Banerjee – Jalsaghar
📍 Mimosa House, London
🗓️ 27 June – 17 August 2025
Sarina Mantle – The Listening Garden
📍 Eastbury Manor House, London
🗓️ 25 July – 24 August 2025
Qudus St Patrick – The Space Between
📍 Southbank Centre, London
🗓️ 23 July – 25 August 2025
Ed Atkins
📍 Tate Britain, London
🗓️ 02 April – 25 August 2025
Christelle Oyiri – In a Perpetual Remix Where is My Own Song?
📍 Tate Modern, London
🗓️ 17 June – 25 August 2025
* featured in Pink Loudspeaker #89
Feel the Sound
📍 Barbican, London
🗓️ 22 May – 31 August 2025
* featured in Pink Loudspeaker #83
Cultural Reforesting Exhibition
📍 Orleans House Gallery, London
🗓️ 27 March – 31 August 2025
Joanna Penso - The River in You
Bow Open: Connections
📍 Bow Arts, London
🗓️ 06 June – 31 August 2025
JAYKOE – SAFE (How We Sense Each Other / Postcolonial City Cenesthesia)
📍 The Bear (Camberwell), London
🗓️ 01–31 August 2025
Jordan Rakei – Music for Heathrow
📍 Heathrow Airport, London
🗓️ 08 July – summer 2025
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
NOCTURN [04]: The Sound is the Shrine feat. Evan Ifekoya
📍 17 Little Portland Street, London
🗓️ 24 April – 21 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, London
🗓️ 04 April 2025 – 01 March 2026
🔊 LISTINGS FOR ALL OTHER CITIES 🔊
Paul Nataraj – We Sound Each Other
Contested Desires: Constructed Dialogues
📍 Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle
🗓️ 17–29 July 2025
* featured in Pink Loudspeaker #93
Loops & Light Workshops
📍 Full of Noises, Barrow-in-Furness
🗓️ 28–30 July 2025
James Bulley – The Mother Goose Series
📍 The Glasshouse, Gateshead
🗓️ 23 April – 31 July 2025
Boris Allenou – Intro to Creative Field Recording workshop
📍 venue TBC, Portsmouth
🗓️ 02 August 2025
Rob St John – Are You Lost?
📍 Jinny’s Barn, Dunsop Bridge, Clitheroe
🗓️ 02–03 August 2025
* featured in Pink Loudspeaker #88
Heritage Walk and Talk; Whitaker Park
📍 The Whitaker Museum and Gallery, Rossendale
🗓️ 03 August 2025
Alisa Oleva & Dasha Zakharets – Sounds Like Home: Listening Gardens
Compass Festival
📍 Meanwood Valley Urban Farm, Leeds
🗓️ 12 July – 09 August 2025
Amartey Golding
📍 FACT, Liverpool
🗓️ 23 May – 10 August 2025
Ruth Canning – Plants Play Guitars!
Folkestone Fringe
📍 Gallery 66, Folkestone
🗓️ 01–10 August 2025
Anna Jane Houghton & Abbie Bradshaw – W O O L
📍 The Jesus Chapel, Liverpool
🗓️ 01–10 August 2025
Evolution of Beauty
📍 Wogan Cavern, Pembroke
🗓️ 29 July – 18 August 2025
Keiken & Ella Toone – The Divine Puppeteer
Football City, Art United.
📍 Aviva Studios, Manchester
🗓️ 04 July – 24 Aug 2025
Darkfield – Eulogy
Edinburgh Fringe Festival
📍 Summerhall, Edinburgh
🗓️ 03–28 Aug 2025
What On Earth x Pot & Vessel: Samba
Folkestone Fringe
📍 Pot & Vessel, Folkestone
🗓️ 25 July – 29 August 2025
Lazerian – Cathedral of Sound
Music For The Senses
📍 Mayfield Park, Manchester
🗓️ 25 July – 31 Aug 2025
* featured in Pink Loudspeaker #91
Gobbledegook Theatre – Cloudscapes
On Cloud 9 at Mailbox
📍 Mailbox, Birmingham
🗓️ 11 July – 31 August 2025
Lorna Rees Company – Canopy
Wondrous Trees
📍 National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
🗓️ 19 July – 31 August 2025
* featured in Pink Loudspeaker #92
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
Mercedes Azpilicueta – Fire on the Mountain, Light on the Hill
Edinburgh Art Festival
📍 Collective, Edinburgh
🗓️ 20 June – 07 Sept 2025
* featured in Pink Loudspeaker #87
Laura Cannell – LyreLyreLyre: The Magick Beneath Us
Raveningham Sculpture Trail
📍 Raveningham Centre, Norfolk
🗓️ 16 July – 07 September 2025
Mike Challis – Boomer
Raveningham Sculpture Trail
📍 Raveningham Centre, Norfolk
🗓️ 16 July – 07 September 2025
ReelBFD: Digital Arts, Bradford Stories
📍 National Science and Media Museum, Bradford
🗓️ 14 June – 07 September 2025
Mary Hooper – The Sun Feeds the Wind
📍 Hastings Contemporary, Hastings
🗓️ 29 March – 14 Sept 2025
* featured in Pink Loudspeaker #75
Christine Sun Kim
Liverpool Biennial
📍 Tate Liverpool + RIBA North, Liverpool
🗓️ 07 June – 14 September 2025
Cevdet Erek – Away Terrace (Us and Them)
Liverpool Biennial
📍 20 Jordan Street, Liverpool
🗓️ 07 June – 14 September 2025
* featured in Pink Loudspeaker #88
DARCH – Heaven in the Ground
Liverpool Biennial
📍 FACT, Liverpool
🗓️ 07 June – 14 September 2025
* featured in Pink Loudspeaker #88
Dawit L. Petros – As the Nile Flows or the Camel Walks
Liverpool Biennial
📍 Liverpool Central Library, Liverpool
🗓️ 07 June – 14 September 2025
Linda Lamignan – We are touched by the trees in a forest of eyes
Liverpool Biennial
📍 FACT Liverpool, Liverpool
🗓️ 07 June – 14 September 2025
Antonio Jose Guzman & Iva Jankovic – Concrete Roots / Griots Epic Stories from the Black Atlantic
Liverpool Biennial
📍 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
🗓️ 07 June – 14 September 2025
* featured in Pink Loudspeaker #88
Antonio Jose Guzman & Iva Jankovic – Toxteth Dub / Maps and Orientations from beyond the Blue
Liverpool Biennial
📍 Tate Liverpool + RIBA North, Liverpool
🗓️ 07 June – 14 September 2025
* featured in Pink Loudspeaker #88
Emma Critchley – Soundings
📍 Tate St Ives, St Ives
🗓️ 24 May – 21 Sept 2025
* featured in Pink Loudspeaker #82
Wolfgang Buttress Studio – Bees: A Story of Survival
📍 World Museum Liverpool, Liverpool
🗓 04 May – 28 September 2025
Kathy Hinde – Listen to the Voices of the Fen
📍 Wicken Fen, Ely, Cambridgeshire
🗓️ 18 July – 28 Sept 2025
Pippa Eason – Four-fold Reverie
📍 PINK, Stockport
🗓️ 02 August – 05 October 2025
* featured in Pink Loudspeaker #93
Angela Davies – At Galon y Gwir / (To the) Heart of the Matter
📍 Plas Glyn-y-Weddw, Llanbedrog, Wales
🗓️ 20 July – 05 October 2025
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, West Yorkshire
🗓️ 24 May – 12 Oct 2025
* featured in Pink Loudspeaker #83
Hanna Tuulikki – Love (Warbler Remix)
Folkestone Triennial
📍 Wear Bay Road, Folkestone
🗓️ 19 July – 19 October 2025
* featured in Pink Loudspeaker #91
Emeka Ogboh – Ode to the Sea
Folkestone Triennial
📍 Coronation Parade, Folkestone
🗓️ 19 July – 19 October 2025
Rubiane Maia – In Search of Darkness
Folkestone Triennial
📍Tram Road, Folkestone
🗓️ 19 July – 19 October 2025
Anna Boghiguian – The Sunken Boat: A Glimpse into Past Histories
📍 Turner Contemporary, Margate
🗓️ 14 June – 26 October 2025
View Out: Weston Town Sound Trail
View In, View Out
📍 Brown Park, Weston-super-Mare
🗓️ 14 July – 31 October
View Out: Uphill Sound Trail
View In, View Out
📍 Uphill Sluice, Weston-super-Mare
🗓️ 14 July – 31 October
View Out: King’s Wood, Mendip Sound Trail
View In, View Out
📍 King’s Wood car park, Winscombe
🗓️ 14 July – 31 October
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 November 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
Lubaina Himid with Magda Stawarska – Another Chance Encounter
📍 Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
🗓️ 12 July – 02 November 2025
* featured in Pink Loudspeaker #92
Sophie Cooper & Babs Smith – Immersive Greenbooth
📍 Greenbooth Reservoir, Rochdale
🗓️ 03 May – 04 Nov 2025
Turbynes – CHANNELS
Bradford 2025
📍 various venues, Bradford
🗓️ 31 May – 16 November 2025
* featured in Pink Loudspeaker #86
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
Sylvia Rimat & Charli Clark – Broad Meadow
📍 Broadmead, Bristol
🗓️ 07 June 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
We Will Not Be Left Behind
📍 Imperial War Museum Duxford, Cambridgeshire
🗓️ 10 July – on-going
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