The Barbican’s Feel the Sound is a multi-sensory immersive exhibition where visitors can explore how sound shapes emotions, memories and physical sensations.
Featuring cutting-edge technology and newly commissioned artworks, the exhibition experience comprises 11 interactive installations that invite audiences to dance to beats from car sound-systems, join in an ever-expanding digital choir, discover their personal inner symphony, and feel music without any sound.
Feel the Sound takes visitors on a journey across locations in the Barbican, from the entrance on Silk Street, in The Curve, the public foyers, to outdoors on the centre’s Lakeside. For the first time, the centre’s underground car parks will also be part of the exhibition experience.
Universal Design Studio is behind the exhibition design and its principle aim for Feel the Sound was to make sound tangible and foreground experiences that engage with the Barbican’s key audiences, while unlocking opportunities to innovate in the field of exhibition design.
The exhibition sets out to ‘transform how we think about sound’, and challenges us to listen not just with our ears, ‘but with our whole bodies – redefining what we hear, how we feel, and what we think we know about ourselves’.
