sound art
Hajra Waheed’s hummed protest songs close in Genoa and Roskilde
Two parts of the artist’s HUM trilogy, songs of resistance sung with closed lips, are free to hear until November 5 in Genoa and…
Patti Smith and Soundwalk Collective bring Correspondences to Milan
A decade of field recordings answered by Smith’s poetry fills Triennale Milano from November 26, with two live performances at the Teatro Lirico that…
Annea Lockwood’s 167-minute Danube sound map comes to Vienna
Recorded over four years and 2,850 km from the Black Forest to the Black Sea, the installation opens at the MAK on October 28…
Daniel Neumann tunes eight speakers to the Fridman Gallery’s own resonances
In Dilation, part of the group show Body Actualized on the Bowery from November 11, sustained drones are set to beat and shimmer in…
Maia Urstad turns four decades of old radios into one Bergen show
Tidslommer, at Lydgalleriet from October 30 to December 12, reuses transmitters and obsolete radios from the sound artist’s archive as instruments and narrators.
Zadie Xa hangs a conch of brass bells in Toronto from October 24
The Power Plant’s free winter show pairs paintings with a suspended sculpture of hundreds of bells shaped like a seashell, open until March 21.
Bernhard Leitner’s sound sculptures fill the Vienna Secession until November 22
A cube of wooden slats plays 48 channels of water sound, and a corridor of metal plates pulses with bass you feel more than…
Raven Chacon scores the desert as Mars at SFMOMA
The Pulitzer-winning Diné composer’s new installation pairs silent archival film with his own field recordings and drones, opening Saturday for a year-long run.
A singing digital swamp from Berlin’s lost wetlands opens at MoMA
Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s Berl-Berl, built with the musician Arca from field recordings and old Slavic wayfinding songs, runs in New York into March.
A Case Western lab is turning live brainwaves back into music
Revived from 1960s experimental music, the Brain Media Lab plays EEG signals as sound, with a David Rosenboom concert in Cleveland on February 14.
Cevdet Erek mixes 1980s metal with sound art history in Queens
The artist and musician’s first New York solo show gathers five site-built sound works at SculptureCenter, where a 1984 exhibition helped name sound art.
Bronze flower bells ring an English pattern at the Serpentine
Justin Caguiat’s first UK museum show fills a London gallery with piston-struck bells whose order never stops shifting, free until January 10.