KINDA STUDIOS presents the premiere of Your Inner Symphony, one of four newly commissioned artworks featuring in Feel the Sound at the Barbican Centre this summer (22 May – 31 August 2025). Feel the Sound is a new multi-sensory immersive exhibition that transforms how we think about sound and joins the roster of experiential exhibitions produced by the Barbican before touring the world.
A collaboration between Kinda Studios – the first women-led neuroaesthetics studio and lab maximising the impact of art, culture, and technology through science – and the award-winning global film and experience design studio, Nexus Studios, Your Inner Symphony fuses neuroscience and design, making our internal vibrations visible to reveal the unseen connection between music, emotion, and the body’s response.
Sound shifts our emotions by vibrating the cells in our bodies, creating unique patterns of rhythmic resonance that shape how we feel. Your Inner Symphony captures this internal response by measuring physiological changes — revealing how our bodies physically register the emotional impact of music.
Your Inner Symphony is a first-of-its-kind collective artwork at the Barbican, featuring three ‘sensing stations’ throughout the exhibition that capture real-time physiological data — such as changes in heart rate and skin conductivity — and transform it into dynamic visual displays. The installations invite visitors to tune into their inner rhythms and chart their internal responses as they move through the exhibition. The aim is to reveal the powerful, often unseen ways that sound affects our bodies and emotions, and highlighting the deep connections between sound, sensation, and wellbeing.
As participants journey through the space, their individual data is translated into visual and sonic forms. At the end of the experience, each person casts their unique biorhythm at The Well, in the Barbican’s main foyer, where their data contributes to an evolving visual and sonic composition — a shared symphony that captures the emotional and physical resonance of sound across all who take part, and a collective expression of feeling made visible through cutting-edge creative technology.
Featuring a total of 11 interactive installations, Feel the Sound is a multi-sensory, immersive exhibition that transforms how we think about sound. Taking place across the Barbican Centre, visitors can explore how sound shapes emotions, memories, and even physical sensations. Feel the Sound challenges us to listen not just with our ears, but with our whole bodies – redefining what we hear, how we feel, and what we think we know about ourselves. Featuring cutting-edge technology and newly commissioned artworks, the unique exhibition experience invites audiences to dance to beats from car sound-systems, join in an ever-expanding digital choir, discover their personal inner symphony, and feel music without any sound.
Taking visitors on a journey across locations in the Barbican, from the entrance on Silk Street, in The Curve, the public foyers, to outdoors on the Centre’s Lakeside, for the first time, the Centre’s underground Car Parks will also be part of the exhibition experience. Following this premiere run, Feel the Sound will embark on an international tour, including to exhibition co-producer, MoN Takanawa: The Museum of Narratives, Tokyo.
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