Barbican
Your Inner Symphony
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