Sonic Cartographies: Sound, Rhythm, Movement and the Composition of Space
| When: | Thursday, 14 May 2026 |
| Where: | The Chris Seabrooke Music Hall |
| Start time: | 18:00 |
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How might we encounter the city through listening? This public session, part of the Atlas of Uncertainty, moves from the census to the senses.
It asks what sound tells us about urban life that surveys, statistics, and maps cannot. Sound does not simply accompany the city, it structures it. Sonic cues guide movement, signal belonging and exclusion, mark territories of labour, worship, leisure, and protest. To listen is a way of knowing the city. The evening opens with a panel conversation moderated by Muhammad Dawjee on the sonic life of cities and listening as method. Participants will then be taken through a series of immersive listening passages drawn from works in the exhibition and from contributions by sound practitioners, tracing how rhythm, resonance, and voice shape the spatial and emotional textures of urban life.
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