Listening Transmissions with Hannah Kemp-Welch

Hannah Kemp-Welch’s Sonic Walkthrough invites visitors to respond to the exhibition Listening All Night To The Rain through sound. Participants can select sounds within the works while also adding their own using microphones and short-range radio transmitters. As they move around the gallery, participants enter different zones of broadcast from others, creating combinations of sounds that blend with the works and form unique layers of transmission and delay. 

Collectivity is central—we find a sense of flow in the exhibition, moving together-in-sound and exchanging responses to its themes from a plurality of experiences. Drawing on Kemp-Welch’s focus on listening as a form of social action, the activity invites visitors to explore the interplay of receiving and transmitting, and to consider how listening and sounding together shapes the experience of the exhibition