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Music heads, sonic frequency fanatics and club rats, listen up. The Barbican has just announced a brand new exhibition that will see one of its underground car parks turned into a temporary club.
This rave space is going to be part of Feel The Sound, a brand new multi-sensory exhibition that will explore the relationships between sound, movement and the human body.
Through a series of immersive installations throughout the brutalist building – with locations including the Curve gallery, the Silk Street entrance, the lakeside terrace and underground car parks – the Barbican wants visitors to experience sound and music in unconventional, visceral ways.
Perhaps most exciting of all is that for the first time installations will be set up in Car Park 5, beneath the building. Now stay with us here, because this isn’t just going to be a straight up rave, but a series of high-concept sonic experiences. Firstly, the uber cool Dublin-based dancefloor design team (they call themselves rave architects) Temporary Pleasure will be putting up one of their post-modern club installations in the car park. The installation, in collaboration with Boiler Room, will use modified car sound systems to make music and sounds.
Also taking over Car Park 5 is Domestic Data Streamers, an arts, technology and research studio. This installation will see monoliths around the car park using generative AI and music boxes to ‘create future music memories that haven’t yet happened’. Sounds like some pretty academic stuff.
Finally, neuroscience research lab Kinda Studios will team up with the animators at Nexus Studios to create an installation that explores how music and sound influences our emotions and ‘internal rhythms’.
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