Adventures in Sound

(presented by Acoustic Survey Art Lab)

A month-long sound art lab exploring how layers of sound accumulate and transform across time, space, and community.

Adventures in Sound brings together sound artists, improvisers, and the public in a five-week programme of live performance, workshops, and deep listening. Each Saturday in August, artists will respond to the space with their own sonic practice – from saxophones and strings to contact mics, DIY instruments, electronics, and even tap dance – layering sounds into a growing collective work.

Each session will offer opportunities for visitors and audiences to participate actively, learn, and co‑create, whether through hands‑on workshops, short lectures on sound, group improvisations, or collaborative performances. Every Saturday will be a one‑off experience, shaped by the artists and those who join them.

Throughout the duration, the space will also be animated by small sound projects, unexpected interventions, and displays of visual art, sculptures, and art‑objects by a diverse range of Arts Central Artists.

Adventures in Sound celebrates sound as a material that can be gathered, layered, and transformed – revealing the acoustic “footprints” we leave behind.

Sat 2 Aug – Sonic Sediments

12-4pm

Our opening day sets the stage for the series with a collaborative workshop. Take part in listening exercises, a scavenger hunt, and collective “scratch orchestra” sessions, and help shape the sound environment for the day.

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https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/noiseee/id1231296094

Sat 9 Aug – Mark Browne: Saxophone & DIY Instruments

12-4pm

Saxophonist and percussionist Mark Browne joins us with a thrilling arsenal of DIY instruments and objects. Expect spontaneous improvisations, unexpected textures, and collaborative sessions inviting the audience to explore sound-making.

Sat 16 Aug – TBC

Sat 23 Aug – TBC

Sat 30 Aug – TBC

~RECOMBINATIONS

(2019 - 2021)

Silkscreen prints

by Jakub Rokita

Jakub’s screen prints explore the intersection of colour, form, and process. Using layered geometric shapes, bold monochromatic fields, and gestural marks, the works play with the tension between precision and spontaneity. Halftones and translucent inks create shifting optical effects as colours overlap, while occasional painterly gestures disrupt the structure, leaving a trace of the artist’s hand.

These screen prints are unique works born from a process of cut‑up serialism. Each print emerges from a shifting recombination of colours and patterns: a series of five impressions in one colour might be partially overprinted days later with new layers, meaning no two prints are ever the same.

Rather than treating screen printing as a way to make identical multiples, Jakub uses it to create variation and unpredictability. The bold shapes and layered textures draw on the graphic language of Brutalist architecture, mid‑century design, industrial signage and mapping systems, resulting in works that feel at once structured and experimental.