SoundEscapes
Ten new audio compositions launching 4 Dec 2026
Listen in the Living Area and on the Smartify app
Our SoundEscapes project helps to bring our world-class art museum’s collection to life.
The collaboration between the Sainsbury Centre and Sound and Music, enters its second commission seeing ten more of the UK’s most exciting composers invited to create a new musical piece that can help capture the essence of a work of art in the Centre’s collection.
With artworks spanning 6000 years up to the present day, and including all mediums, the collection is one of the finest in the UK and a celebration of the power of human creativity.
With these compositions, objects in the collection – both inside and outside – will be able to better tell their life stories and engage with audiences in a new and dynamic way – all through the power of music.
All 20 compositions will be able to be heard across the world via the Sainsbury Centre website, via the Smartify app, and experienced physically in the museum next to the artworks which inspired them.
Following our Living Art relaunch, there have been many ways for people to meet art in a more personal and emotional way in the museum.
It’s available in the Living Area and on Smartify.
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Elif Nur Karlıdağ
Elif Nur Karlıdağ. Photo by Derek Santini
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Delia Stevens
Delia Stevens. Photo by Ellie Lucas
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NikNak
NikNak. Photo by EmObeng
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Luntraktors
Lunatraktors. Photo by Hybrid Eyes
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Fintan O’Hare
Fintan O’Hare. Photo by Fintan O’Hare
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Tamsin Elliott
The Accordion Player, Ossip Zadkine
Tamsin Elliot. Photo by Kate Wolstenholme.
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t l k
Baby Asleep, Jacob Epstein
t l k. Photo by @tigr.vision.prod.
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Meduulla
Ceremonial Bow-Stand, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Maruvaashe Shongedza. Photo by Kate Wolstenholme.
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Marcus Joseph
We Mask, Cote d’lvoire
Marcus Joseph. Photo by Kate Wolstenholme.
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Matthew Herbert feat Momoko Gill & Ella Kay
Head of a Woman, Amedeo Modigliani
Matthew Herbert. Photo by Manuel Vazquez.
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Ed Macfarlane
Study (Imaginary Portrait of Pope Pius XII), Francis Bacon
Ed Macfarlane. Photo by Ed Macfarlane.
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Melanie Wilson
Old Maids, Leonora Carrington
Melanie Wilson. Photo by Tom Baker.
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Diego
Diagonal Cut, Günther Uecker
Diego Doran. Image supplied by Juno Doran.
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Eva
Discs in Echelon, Version 2, Barbara Hepworth
Eva Patterson. Photo by Eva Patterson.–
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Midori Komachi
Usagi Kannon, Leiko Ikemura
Midori Komachi. Photo by Mayumi Hirata.
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Photo by Kate Wolstenholme