WET SOUNDS

Underwater concert makes for a unique aural experience.

Sound travels faster through water than it does through air, so it follows that any listening experience will be very different submerged in a pool than it would be on dry land. This was the thinking behind this summer’s Wet Sounds tour, curated by Joel Cahen, which finished up recently having hit ten public swimming pools around the UK. Yep, swimming pools, with ticket buyers donning bathers and goggles before diving headfirst into a never-before-heard world of sonic experience.

Central to the success of the tour was the way it turned these oft-neglected public lidos into installation spaces, and many people who wouldn’t normally be exposed to these kind of sonic events and found themselves poolside at the right time became completely absorbed by the whole thing - just like the niche few who turned up knowing full well what to expect. Not your average day at the lido by any means.

Wet Sounds should resurface next year.

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