Sound is an aggressor when you live in a city. It invades buses and trains in a shriek of TikTok videos and phone calls, pushes into our homes in the whir of the bin lorry, the bang and screech of our neighbour’s building work. It swells in restaurants, rustles and coughs in church. A new exhibition at the Barbican Centre promises to “transform how we think about sound” – but it ends up just adding to the noise.
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