For the Barbican’s Feel the Sound exhibition, we created Your Inner Symphony – an interactive installation that reveals the transformative power of music on our inner physiology. Blending neuroscience with design, the experience invites visitors to reflect on the impact of sound, generating striking, evolving visuals as a live representation of their emotional response.

Woven throughout the exhibition, visitors encounter Sensing Stations to engage with. By scanning your hand, these interactive points read subtle physiological signals like BPM, heart rate variability, and your sweat response. These inputs drives a unique visual response offering a moment to observe how the body reacts to the sound and music in which you’re immersed throughout the exhibition.

After its run at the Barbican, Your Inner Symphony will begin an international tour, launching at MoN Takanawa: The Museum of Narratives in Tokyo.

Created in collaboration with Kinda Studios.


As visitors continue to engage with the different stations throughout the exhibition, their multiple readings evolve into a layered self-portrait. At the final stop, all individual responses flow into The Well – a sculptural centrepiece where every contribution combines to form a shared, living symphony. For a more detailed breakdown, click here



Client
Barbican

Production Company
Nexus Studios

Designed & created by
Nexus Studios and Kinda Studios.

 

Nexus Studios

Executive Producer
Rob York

Producer
Ashley Cohen

Creative Director
Alex Jenkins

Creative Lead
Margaux Björk

Technical Director
Vegard Myklebust

Technical Lead
Hannah Corrie

Creative Technologist
Charles Yarnold

Physical Designer
Laura Micalizzi

Technical Artist
Hannah Corrie/Jon Mayoh

Motion Design
Erwin van den IJssel

UI Design
Szymon Łucarz/Rafał Mierzejewski

Sound design
Hannah Corrie

PR & Marketing
Nancy Edmondson, Bruce Bigg, Alyaa Ridha

Neuroscience Studio & Lab Kinda Studios

Creative Director
Robyn Landau

Scientific Director
Erica Warp

Creative Scientist
Alyce Burton

Co-Director
Katherine Templar Lewis


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