The short version
- The Mosaic Rooms on London’s Cromwell Road has spent five months as a space for listening and playing, and the project closes on 29 November.
- Downstairs, Gaza’s Dahaleez Collective presents an archive of sounds recorded on Al-Rashid Street in 2024 and 2025, built around an orchestral piece first written in 2021.
- Upstairs, instruments, recorders and listening stations are free to use, and there are free Sunday jams that need booking.
sounding towards – –, at the Mosaic Rooms on Cromwell Road in London, runs until 29 November. In the lower gallery, From–To by Dahaleez Collective is an auditory archive of Al-Rashid Street in Gaza City, made from recordings taken in 2024 and 2025: the sea, traffic and voices. At its centre is a composition by Mahmoud Abu Warda, first written during the eleven-day war of 2021 and produced four years later with the Lisbon Symphonic Orchestra. The gallery says the work asks for “a deep, still listening”. Upstairs, Common Frequencies by El Warcha Collaborative Design Studio is a room built from reclaimed furniture and found objects, stocked with instruments, recording devices, books and listening stations that visitors are invited to “use, misuse and re-use”.
The gallery describes the project as treating the building as “a site for listening, sonic experimentation and conviviality” instead of a stage for finished work. Four sound artists, Bint Mbareh, 1000 Pounds To Survive Us, felix taylor and Aditi Jaganathan, each take over the space for a period, though the gallery’s page does not give their dates. Free Sunday jams, open to anyone, run until the end and must be booked ahead. Dahaleez Collective won the OTO Award x Dar Jacir Palestinian Art Prize 2025, which supported the work.
Entry is free. It is open Wednesday to Saturday, 11:00 to 18:00, and Sunday, 12:00 to 17:00. The nearest Tube station is Earls Court.
