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In an age of mobile phones, in-car sound-systems, digital broadcasting and celebrity DJs, sound and audio technology play an ever-increasing role in contemporary life. Sound - the carrier of words, music and noise - is the subject of Sonic Boom, and exhibition in which the experience of sound in space is given a new spin by the installations and actions of sound artists. Curated by David Toop, Sonic Boom takes 1990s post-techno, post-rave, post-ambient sound art out of a restrictive club context and liberates it in a gallery environment. The largest group exhibition of sound art ever staged in this country. Sonic Boom fills the Hayward with a series of sound installations in which the visitor encounters the mechanical and the organic, the electronic and the acoustic, the sculptural and the intangible. The exhibition creates both subtle and intense sensory experiences, offering a sound-scape for the imagination.

Creatives/Company

Exhibitor/Artist(s): Joe Banks, Angela Bulloch, Paul Burwell, Heri Dono, Max Eastley, Thomas Koner, Brian Eno, Paulo Feliciano, Rafael Toral, Greyworld, Stephan von Huene, Ryoji Ikeda, Philip Jeck, Christina Kubisch, Chico MacMurtrie, Christian Marclay, Russell Mills, Ian Walton, Mariko Mori, John Oswald, Pan Sonic, Project Dark, Lee Ranaldo, Scanner, Katarina Matiasek, Paul Schutze