{"id":177731,"date":"2025-06-24T12:50:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T11:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centmagazine.co.uk\/?p=177731"},"modified":"2025-06-24T14:58:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T13:58:35","slug":"from-hearing-to-feeling-the-new-function-of-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/?p=177731","title":{"rendered":"From Hearing to Feeling: The New Function of Sound"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b5fc18232c66f69312f74ffec9983518 wp-block-paragraph\">What if <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/sound-without-borders-the-new-wave-of-culture-crushing-music\/\">sound<\/a> isn&#8217;t just something we listen to, but something that listens back? Not the kind pressed into sheet music or forced through headphones. This is an older, stranger sound: tactile, cinematic, alive, visceral, almost feral. The kind that blooms in your chest before your ears can help name it. The kind that hums under the city like a secret. The kind that doesn&#8217;t just move you; it <em>knows<\/em> you. If this sounds enticing, find out more in <em>From Hearing to Feeling: The New Function of Sound.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e067debaf71b55f69d6a49a9dc98c711 wp-block-paragraph\">You may well have had an experience or even many, where, as much as you listen to a piece of music, your body is experiencing it too?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-50d659a8fafc638ed3ccb60df0e9f480 wp-block-paragraph\">This summer, at London&#8217;s Barbican Centre, sound is no longer just something to listen to. It&#8217;s something to touch. Step into <em>Feel The Sound<\/em>: a multi-sensory <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/tom-of-finland-love-and-liberation-exhibition\/\">exhibition<\/a>, where music ceases to be just background, and becomes the whole architecture of experience. Here, sound isn&#8217;t mere decoration; it&#8217;s a function. Of identity. Of memory. Emotion. Grief. Joy. Rebellion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-15b9a61052aa571a187198a06949a474 wp-block-paragraph\">If this sounds like magic, that&#8217;s because it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-18b7208c1379d45230a74e452ef8c87d wp-block-paragraph\">Across eleven installations that sprawl through corridors, car parks, digital skies, and lakesides, <em>Feel the Sound<\/em> urges us to hear with our skin, our synapses and our stories. This isn&#8217;t just an art show. This is an invitation. An invitation to remember who we are: a rhythmic, sonic being. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Facade-MACS-MTO.-Courtesy-of-Musee-dArt-et-de-Culture-Soufis-MTO.-Photo-by-Laurent-Edeline.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"387\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Facade-MACS-MTO.-Courtesy-of-Musee-dArt-et-de-Culture-Soufis-MTO.-Photo-by-Laurent-Edeline-1024x683.jpg?resize=580%2C387&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-177889\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Facade-MACS-MTO.-Courtesy-of-Musee-dArt-et-de-Culture-Soufis-MTO.-Photo-by-Laurent-Edeline.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Facade-MACS-MTO.-Courtesy-of-Musee-dArt-et-de-Culture-Soufis-MTO.-Photo-by-Laurent-Edeline.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Facade-MACS-MTO.-Courtesy-of-Musee-dArt-et-de-Culture-Soufis-MTO.-Photo-by-Laurent-Edeline.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Facade-MACS-MTO.-Courtesy-of-Musee-dArt-et-de-Culture-Soufis-MTO.-Photo-by-Laurent-Edeline.jpg?resize=1200%2C800&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Facade-MACS-MTO.-Courtesy-of-Musee-dArt-et-de-Culture-Soufis-MTO.-Photo-by-Laurent-Edeline.jpg?w=1500&amp;ssl=1 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-57806b9fa5fc3e0c1dc9f77fe1850807 wp-block-paragraph\">Fa\u00e7ade, MACS MTO. Courtesy of Mus\u00e9e d&#8217;Art et de Culture Soufis MTO. Photo by Laurent Eleine.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7b26c5d4a60249d4b272d80e79510028 wp-block-paragraph\">Take <em>Your Inner Symphony<\/em>, a collaboration between Kinda Studios and Nexus Studios, that transforms your heartbeat, breath and consciousness into sound. Here, your body becomes both orchestra and audience. What you hear is you, unfiltered. Your inner state, translated into music. Science fuses with intimacy. <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/cecil-beatons-emotional-reverie-where-private-life-meets-creative-spectacle\/\">Emotion<\/a> becomes audible. The soundtrack isn&#8217;t external; it&#8217;s been inside you all along.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-018da3337f50bc99299aee16fa020c85 wp-block-paragraph\">Or <em>Resonant Frequencies<\/em>, a meditative installation by Evan Ifekoya that invites you to experience sound through your body, rather than your ears. Two dimly lit spaces pulse with low, steady frequencies: one shaped by water, and the other by the quiet rhythm of the sun. These tones, long associated with healing, travel through the room in waves, gently slowing your breath and softening your attention. There&#8217;s no narrative, no drama and no narration; just a feeling of being held. It&#8217;s subtle, but it stays with you. The way good silence does.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/%C2%A9Charwei-Tsai-A_Temple_A_Shrine_A_Mosque_A_Church-2022-03-Photo-by-Anpis-Wang-Courtesy-of-TKG-Taipei-Taiwan.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"387\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/%C2%A9Charwei-Tsai-A_Temple_A_Shrine_A_Mosque_A_Church-2022-03-Photo-by-Anpis-Wang-Courtesy-of-TKG-Taipei-Taiwan.jpg?resize=580%2C387&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-177890\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/%C2%A9Charwei-Tsai-A_Temple_A_Shrine_A_Mosque_A_Church-2022-03-Photo-by-Anpis-Wang-Courtesy-of-TKG-Taipei-Taiwan.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/%C2%A9Charwei-Tsai-A_Temple_A_Shrine_A_Mosque_A_Church-2022-03-Photo-by-Anpis-Wang-Courtesy-of-TKG-Taipei-Taiwan.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/%C2%A9Charwei-Tsai-A_Temple_A_Shrine_A_Mosque_A_Church-2022-03-Photo-by-Anpis-Wang-Courtesy-of-TKG-Taipei-Taiwan.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/%C2%A9Charwei-Tsai-A_Temple_A_Shrine_A_Mosque_A_Church-2022-03-Photo-by-Anpis-Wang-Courtesy-of-TKG-Taipei-Taiwan.jpg?resize=1200%2C800&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/%C2%A9Charwei-Tsai-A_Temple_A_Shrine_A_Mosque_A_Church-2022-03-Photo-by-Anpis-Wang-Courtesy-of-TKG-Taipei-Taiwan.jpg?w=1500&amp;ssl=1 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7d7acbda0321d83f9825fbb6177f1650 wp-block-paragraph\"><em>A Temple, A Shrine, A Mosque, A Church,<\/em> 2022. Gold ink on hand-woven mats by craftswomen from Al Ghadeer, Abu Dhabi. Photo by Anpis Wang, Courtesy of the artist and TKG+, Tapiei, Taiwan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ab897384f78244e333a0698e3c3c0a34 wp-block-paragraph\">Not all sounds heal, though. Some disrupt. Some force you to remember. <em>Joyride<\/em> is a queer reclamation of Y2K racer culture; it transforms wrecked cars into sound sculptures. Set deep in the Barbican&#8217;s underground car park, it&#8217;s part rave, part archive, and past protest. Subwoofers rumble. Neon flickers. The air feels heavy with memory. Here, sound isn&#8217;t soothing and polished; it&#8217;s loud, messy, defiant. It&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/a-tribute-to-confidence-charlotte-tilburys-empowering-new-campaign\/\">tribute<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8163098a829f4935b92ed44d766c2ff9 wp-block-paragraph\">In <em>UN\/BOUND<\/em>, voices, trans voices: layered, fragmented, brave, bloom into a holographic choir. You walk through them, and they ripple all around you. Add your own voice, if you dare. The result may not always be harmony, but it is honesty. Expression. Release. Listening becomes an act of solidarity. Of political care. Of presence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0aa587622a431ec966394aab75e0c8f1 wp-block-paragraph\">Elsewhere, Raymond Antrobus reminds us what sound doesn&#8217;t do; who it excludes. His installation, <em>Heightened Lyric<\/em>, flies above the Barbican&#8217;s lakeside in the form of seven kites, each inscribed with poetry in British Sign Language. Silent, vast and wildly eloquent. A tribute to the sounds that live beyond just hearing. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Garden-MACS-MTO.-Courtesy-of-Musee-dArt-et-de-Culture-Soufis-MTO.-Photo-by-Jean-Yves-Lacote.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"387\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Garden-MACS-MTO.-Courtesy-of-Musee-dArt-et-de-Culture-Soufis-MTO.-Photo-by-Jean-Yves-Lacote.jpg?resize=580%2C387&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-177892\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Garden-MACS-MTO.-Courtesy-of-Musee-dArt-et-de-Culture-Soufis-MTO.-Photo-by-Jean-Yves-Lacote.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Garden-MACS-MTO.-Courtesy-of-Musee-dArt-et-de-Culture-Soufis-MTO.-Photo-by-Jean-Yves-Lacote.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Garden-MACS-MTO.-Courtesy-of-Musee-dArt-et-de-Culture-Soufis-MTO.-Photo-by-Jean-Yves-Lacote.jpg?resize=768%2C513&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Garden-MACS-MTO.-Courtesy-of-Musee-dArt-et-de-Culture-Soufis-MTO.-Photo-by-Jean-Yves-Lacote.jpg?resize=1200%2C801&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Garden-MACS-MTO.-Courtesy-of-Musee-dArt-et-de-Culture-Soufis-MTO.-Photo-by-Jean-Yves-Lacote.jpg?w=1500&amp;ssl=1 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-fe2d6c24f7861a7348a0236e96c6a5eb wp-block-paragraph\">MACS MTO garden. Courtesy of Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Art et de Culture Soufis MTO. Photo by Jean-Yves Lac\u00f4te.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9dd42c0793cbed2b00668b6a8131544f wp-block-paragraph\">The deeper you go, the more the exhibitions unravels you. It breaks free from the neat idea that sound is just a passive medium. It isn&#8217;t. It moves. It mourns. It revolts. It remembers. It functions as a prosthetic for time. A prosthetic for self. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-cacfaf655fe4db9a52b00059e7c1df8d wp-block-paragraph\">Even the exhibition&#8217;s co-producers, Tokyo&#8217;s Museum of Narratives (MoN Takanawa), describe sound as the most unified form of expression with the human body. A <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/artists-words-and-language-make-for-beautiful-art\/\">language<\/a> that predates language. That doesn&#8217;t need translation. That <em>is<\/em> translation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d29a03c94a57c9abf8a2d1f33c2b7a5b wp-block-paragraph\">Which is why <em>Feel the Sound<\/em> doesn&#8217;t feel like visiting an art show. It feels like entering a body. Not just your own, but a collective one. The body of the memory, the diaspora, the secret self. The ghost note between the real and the imagined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e6c44ca3c4ab00937802606d726317a8 wp-block-paragraph\">Sound isn&#8217;t just being re-imagined through <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/modern-innovative-women-in-art\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">innovative<\/a> installations and digital immersion. Also in London, a quieter kind of multi-sensory experience is taking shape.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-23-at-7.35.42%E2%80%AFPM.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"436\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-23-at-7.35.42%E2%80%AFPM.jpg?resize=580%2C436&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-178057\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-23-at-7.35.42%E2%80%AFPM.jpg?resize=1024%2C769&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-23-at-7.35.42%E2%80%AFPM.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-23-at-7.35.42%E2%80%AFPM.jpg?resize=768%2C577&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-23-at-7.35.42%E2%80%AFPM.jpg?resize=1200%2C901&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-23-at-7.35.42%E2%80%AFPM.jpg?w=1500&amp;ssl=1 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b54c0178afa6ccac65a750fd8dee0649 wp-block-paragraph\">Jon Buck, <em>Alarm Bells are Ringing<\/em>, 2025 (Credit: Pangolin London)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a5c9a3d5d780e1fd0ffc1b4fc7b62d10 wp-block-paragraph\">On 9 July, Pangolin London hosts <em>A Soir\u00e9e of Music and Sculpture<\/em>, an intimate evening where voice and form converge. Set within <em>Telltale<\/em> Forms, a retrospective celebrating four decades of work by sculptor Jon Buck, the evening blends a live artist talk with performances by The Working Consort (a London-based vocal collective, known for their improvisational approach to ensemble music). Buck&#8217;s work draws from mythology, nature, and the human form; the music answers not with explanation, but with atmosphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4340661ca9cae330a0eb91e7e58312bb wp-block-paragraph\">In contrast to the immersive scale of Feel the Sound, this event is minimal, acoustic, and immediate. A reminder that sometimes, the most affecting experiences come not from surround sound, but from a single, un-amplified voice in a room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-579fb6daa528dea5c8903aea7e5c3778 wp-block-paragraph\">And perhaps that&#8217;s the point being made here. There is no single climax. No final song. No perfect silence. Only movement. Tension. Reverberation. And that&#8217;s exactly the point. Sound is not an object. It&#8217;s a condition. A way of being. And with these exhibitions, it becomes a question, too: <br \/>What if the function of sound was never to be heard, but to be <em>felt<\/em>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2e3349a61fd88d0bc01021879ba8c175 wp-block-paragraph\">If you enjoyed reading <em>From Hearing to Feeling: The New Function of Sound<\/em>, then why not read<em> <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/in-the-absurd-we-trust-please-mind-the-existential-gap\/\">In The Absurd We Trust here<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-33797eeb6462ffe26d9932aafafe5c4f wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barbican.org.uk\/\">Barbican Centre<\/a>, London (22 May &#8211; 31 August 2025).<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pangolinlondon.com\/\">Pangolin London<\/a>, 9 July <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-541671b023c7c925c9884193b37e56ca wp-block-paragraph\">.Cent London, <strong>Be Inspired; <em>Get Involved<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if sound isn&#8217;t just something we listen to, but something that listens back? 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