Feel the Sound
An exhibition experience on a different frequency
22 May-31 Aug 2025
Feel the Sound
Exhibition Catalogue
Barbican Centre, London, England
Co-produced by MoNTakanawa: The Museum of Narratives, Takanawa Gateway City, Tokyo, Japan
Opening in May 2025, the Barbican announces Feel the Sound, a bold new multi-sensory exhibition experience exploring our personal relationship to sound and embracing a world of listening that goes beyond the audio.
Through a series of eleven commissions and installations -including six new commissions—Feel the Sound-takes place in spaces across the Barbican Centre, from the entrance on Silk Street, in The Curve, the public foyers, to outdoors on the Centre Lakeside Terrace. For the first time, the Centre's underground Car Parks will also be part of the exhibition experience. Following this premiere run, Feel the Sound will embark on an international tour, including to MoNTakanawa: The Museum of Narratives, T okyo in late 2026.
Frequencies, sound, rhythmic patterns and vibrations define everything around us. From the soundtrack of our environments to the rhythm of our heartbeat, frequencies are constantly creating and changing how we see, hear and feel the world. Feel the Sound is an invitation to awaken the senses, embrace our sonic world and discover the sound in each of us. Each installation will be an opportunity to explore how sound can be experienced in a multitude of ways.
By considering our body as a listening device, we can begin to adjust our understanding of ourselves and tune in to the world through a different frequency. The exhibition will be accompanied by a playful and unique catalogue, influenced by music and sound magazines, designed by Other Office, a multidisciplinary creative practice run by Simon Sweeney & Shauna Buckley, who specialise in visual identities, interactive work, and printed matter.