Peter Doig, House of Music: Sound Service

Serpentine South Gallery Every Sunday and select weekdays and evenings until 8 February 2026 Free

A live programme that activates Peter Doig’s House of Music on Sundays and select weekdays and evenings.

With sound system by Laurence Passera / dsp London.

DAY SCHEDULE

12pm
Cyrus Goberville is a curator and Head of Cultural Programs Pinault Collection.
He will play a selection of records sourced recently on his trip to Brazil.

3pm
Behrang Karimi is a painter, who temporarily lives and works in Cologne.
His selection will be tender, percussive, contemplative, medical, open on all sides.

5.30pm
Ed Ruscha is an artist based in Los Angeles.
His selection is a musical version of ‘Follow the Bouncing Ball’, jumping from one style to another very different style.

11am
Jerald ‘Coop’ Cooper is an artist and founder of Hood Century.
He will play a selection of funk, jazz, soul and R&B from his Pops’ 45’s and his Uncle’s 12’’ records.

12pm
Arthur Jafa is an artist and filmmaker based in Los Angeles.
He will play songs from his childhood from a recently inherited collection of records.

3pm
Dare Balogun is a DJ and writer based in London.
He will play a selection of traditional music from West and Central Africa.

1pm
Lawrence Kumpf is the founder and artistic director of Blank Forms.
He will play a selection of reel to reel recordings, including as-yet-unpublished home recordings of a collaboration between singer-songwriter Josephine Foster and poet Louise Landes Levi, Levi’s solo sarangi performances, and a master tape of Masayuki Takayanagi’s April Is the Cruelest Month, alongside a selection of records and cassettes from his personal collection.

12pm
Gladdy Wax is a legendary figure of sound system culture in the UK.
He will play Jamaican music from 1950s, ‘60s and ‘70s, leading up to the present day, as well as American R&B from the 1950s.

12pm
Duval Timothy is a multi-disciplinary artist and musician.
He will share some of his own music alongside a selection of music by friends and artists that inspire him – pared back works, instrumentals and soundscapes.

3pm
Santiago Mostyn is an artist whose practice foregrounds narrative entanglements in pursuit of new understandings of place.
In this listening session we tune in, speculatively, to Radio Free Grenada, the national radio station of revolutionary Grenada (1979–1983).

12pm
Danny Fitzgerald is a DJ and archivist from Liverpool.
He will play classic carnival music from Trinidad, exploring a full spectrum of sounds from swinging big-band calypso to hypnotic synth-heavy soca, chutney fusion, and steelband funk.

12pm
John Maclean (b. 1972, Scotland) studied painting at Edinburgh College of Art and the Royal College of Art before co-founding The Beta Band and later The Aliens, directing many of their acclaimed music videos. His films include the BAFTA-winning Pitch Black Heist (2011), Slow West (2015, Sundance Grand Jury Prize), and Tornado (2025).
John Maclean and Andrew Cranston will play an eclectic mix informed not only by Doig’s paintings but their musical experiences, discussions and trips to Trinidad with the artist over the years.

Andrew Cranston (b. Scotland, 1969) studied painting at Gray’s School of Art and the Royal College of Art. He has been based in Glasgow since 1997. His main practice is centred on painting, with forays into writing and film, including a promo for The Beta Band in 2004.
John Maclean and Andrew Cranston will play an eclectic mix informed not only by Doig’s paintings but their musical experiences, discussions and trips to Trinidad with the artist over the years.

3pm
Anthony Collymore aka DJ Mellancolly is a DJ and a retired school teacher.
He will play music that is reflective of the diverse ethnic, religious and cultural background of Trinidad and Tobago. The full spectrum of sounds will include songs of the Orishas, Indian tassa, party songs, chutney soca, parang and folk, steel pan and black conscious songs.

12pm
Johan Kugelberg is an archivist, author and curator based in New York City where he runs Boo-Hooray, regularly issuing catalogues of rare books and ephemera.
He will play records that he thinks will sound like godlike explosions of metaphysical greatness

12pm
Soul Jazz Records is an independent record label based in London.
Soul Jazz Records will play deep spiritual jazz inspired by the album cover artwork from their new book ‘Freedom, Rhythm and Sound – Chapter Two’, compiled with their good friend Gilles Peterson. Think Alice Coltrane meets Nikki Giovanni with Sun Ra.

3pm
Sean O’Hagan is an Irish writer and journalist specialising in music and photography.
He will play a mix of roots reggae, dub, ambient electronica, spiritual jazz, soundtracks and spoken word. If the planets are aligned, Sun Ra will merge seamlessly into John Fahey, Keith Hudson will hold hands with Holger Czukay, and Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry will go head-to-head with Samuel Beckett.

12pm
Noah Max is the composer of over 60 works of opera, chamber and orchestral music which have been performed at London’s Royal Festival Hall, New York’s Carnegie Hall and Vienna’s Musikverien.
When writing music Noah draws inspiration from painting and sculpture, line and light, colour and contour. In this session he selects the pieces most deeply influenced by particular artists and their practices. Currently Noah is composing a new piece based on Peter Doig’s The Alpinist to premiere in 2026.

3pm
Masakatsu Kondo
is an artist (painter) based in London, he is also known as DJ Mastakut – a regular selector on community radio stations for over 30 years. He will select music from his core record collection of spiritual jazz to soul and rare groove.

12pm
Jörg Mohaupt is an Amsterdam based analog head. He collects shellac and vinyl records and Voigt horn speakers.
He will be playing a selection of Calypso and other tropical Shellac records from the 40s and 50s. Music from the era when many of the elements of the sound system were built.

12pm
Launched from Palestine during the first global lockdown in March 2020, Radio alHara is an online radio station encompassing the idea of a public space that aims to blend the limits between producers and listeners.
During their session co-founders of Radio alHara, Elias and Yousef Anastas, will explore the radio’s archives, questioning how they can be used and what they mean.

3pm
Olukemi Lijadu is a Nigerian-British artist and philosopher of sound whose films, live scores, and DJ practice trace the Black Atlantic as a living, breathing archive.

Olukemi’s collection spans 90s hip-hop, classic soul, highlife, and more. From the whistles of Minnie Riperton to the dub-heavy basslines of Lee “Scratch” Perry, her shelves form a personal atlas of Black Atlantic music. Lijadu inherited both of her grandfathers’ record collections – spanning reggae, traditional Yoruba music, Motown and classical music; King Sunny Adé, Aretha Franklin, Mighty Sparrow Beethoven, and beyond – an intergenerational archive she is committed to carrying forward.

 

3pm
The Wajang Diskotheque is a Trinidad-based collective headed by Attillah Springer and Merten Kaatz. In addition to a commitment to joy on the dancefloor, The Wajang Diskotheque is also about shining a light on Trinidad and Tobago’s long history of resistance through art.

Hugo Mendez is a UK-born DJ, A&R Manager at Soundway Records and co-founder and DJ of the legendary Sofrito Tropical Soundclash parties.

This musical conversation ushers in a new era of collaboration between The Wajang Diskotheque and Soundway Records, continuing the work of bringing Trinidad and Tobago’s rich musical archives to a global audience.

12pm
Cafe OTO provides a home for creative new music that exists outside of the mainstream with an evening programme of adventurous live music seven nights a week.
Cafe OTO co-founder Hamish Dunbar will play a selection of music from his personal collection.

3pm
Mark Leckey is a London-based artist, who works with video, installation, performance, and sound.
Join him in an occult ritual where he’ll be annihilating time and space through the brute splendour of Western Electric and Klangfilm speakers.

3pm
Ruairi Kennedy aka Klose One is a DJ, tastemaker, and dedicated music collector whose 20 year career spans DJing, curation, A&R, and artist development. Known for breaking new sounds and nurturing emerging genres, Ruairi brings a deeply intuitive ear to everything he does.
For this event, Ruairi will be diving into his extensive archive, selecting gems accumulated throughout his years behind the decks, rare cuts, timeless classics, and the kind of discoveries that have shaped his reputation as a uniquely versatile selector.

All day (10am-6pm)
David Byrne’s cassette collection

David Byrne is a musician, performer, writer and multidisciplinary artist whose creative ventures have captivated audiences since 1975 when he co-founded the renowned group Talking Heads.

Back in the day cassettes were the ubiquitous medium for music and sounds all over the world. Street vendors sold them, temples sold them, bands sold them and of course friends made them for their friends and lovers. Virtually indestructible they could fit in your pocket and could be played on a boombox, in a religious shrine, on a sound system or in a car. A sonic world you could carry with you anywhere before cell phones or streaming.

During this session, visitors will select from and listen to David Byrne’s recently unearthed collection of cassettes. When he discovered them, he thought: what a wild and eclectic world these conjure! Spiritual uplift, irresistible beats and devastating heartbreak – it’s all here! Pick one – if you don’t like it, try another.

 

12pm
Max Richter is a composer, who fuses classical technique with electronic technology.
His listening session will be a 500-year journey through works connected across different times and cultures by memories, dreams, kinship, reflections and associations.

3pm
Samuel Strang is a London-based music programmer, currently Head of Music at NTS.
Expect a set that merges blissed out ambience with wayward dissonance, searching for a sweet spot between the devotional and the deranged.

12pm
James Righton is a musician and composer. He spent his 20’s in the band Klaxons and subsequently released three solo records. He now makes music for film and TV.
He will play an eclectic mix of music he loves from his vinyl collection.

 

3pm
Dominic Dyson – TESTSET: NOW ON

Dominic Dyson is a graphic designer/artist, producer and sonic pattern-maker.

Sharing a selection of tracks from the Testset archives – DIRGE GRID, DREKERD, ROTATOR, MINIM, SOLOS and NOW ON. Testset like loops, repetition, reflection, tessellation, transients, syncopation, attack & decay, amplitude, a/symmetry, chance, communion, big emotions, well-tempered chaos and deep sonic space.

12pm
Alain Salomon practiced and taught architecture in New York and Paris. His wife Katia and he co-founded the chamber music and jazz festival “Les Musicales des Coteaux de Gimone” in Gascony. 

He will play a selection from his and Katia’s 60 year LP collection, from Purcell to the Afro-Cuban percussionists of ¿Que Vola?, with music that moves between light and shadow.

 

3pm
Lizzi Bougatsos is a visual artist and experimental musician living and working in New York City. Her vinyl selection will include uplifting percussive vocals, rhythmic landscapes, and songs that tremble thru us.

 

12pm
Brandon Hocura is a filmmaker, writer, archivist, and the creative director of Séance Centre.
He will play modernist spiritual music from the Caribbean, exploring the sociopolitical rhythms and mystic crosscurrents of Trinidadian rapso, rastafarian dub, jazz-influenced gwoka from Guadeloupe, and Guyanese existential soul. 

 

3pm
Jem Finer works in a variety of fields, including experimental and popular music, film, photography, art and mathematics. Recent work revolves around an obsession with the hurdy-gurdy.
He will be playing a wide selection of records, CDs and cassettes that have moved and amazed him over the last 70 years, encompassing myriad sonic worlds and including previously unheard music and field recordings from his own collection.

12pm
Basma Osman is the host of Khartoum Arrivals on NTS Radio and the co-host of radio show and record label Hear, Sense and Feel. She plays music inspired by the long road, drawing from the wedding anthems and eclectic folk of Sudan, the Sahel, the Horn and beyond.

In this listening session, she will be playing from her small record collection, sharing spiritual and sentimental sounds of her beloved Sudan.

 

3pm
Brian Degraw & Alexis Taylor

Brian DeGraw is a musician, visual artist, and DJ based in NYC. He is a founding member of the experimental group Gang Gang Dance and has performed and exhibited his work throughout the world since the early 2000’s. Alexis Taylor is a singer, musician, producer, songwriter and DJ, known for his work in Hot Chip and as a solo artist.

This will be one of several collaborations between DeGraw and Taylor, which have included audio/visual performances, remixes, and cover art for Hot Chip’s 2022 album Freakout/Release. This collaborative session will include Jamaican records, German/Jamaican dub techno/ambient pieces, early gospel and country blues/folk, minimal and electronic music, including works by Washington Phillips, Terry Riley, Gavin Bryars, Rhythm and Sound, as well as ambient, prepared piano, and Georgian polyphonic singing among others.

12pm
Edward George is a writer, broadcaster and founder of Black Audio Film Collective. His works include: The Strangeness of Dub, Strangeness of Jazz, Black Atlas, Listening to D’Angelo Hearing Voodoo, Sound of Music.

‘Music is a visual medium, close your eyes and see the colours’

 

3pm
Liam Casey – Atlantis Records

Hackney-based Western Irish former assistant fish smoker, sandwich toaster, underage hurling strongman, bad singer, Liam Casey now owns Atlantis Records with friend and mentor John Coxon whilst collecting recorded junk and pieces of paper.

For this set he’ll be making the most of his one and only chance to play some rural records in the finest patch of grass never to be farmed, Kensington Gardens. Folk music from all over the world, cattle calls, frog croaks, yodels, hollers, tall tales and low brows.

3pm
Richard Russell is a musician, producer and founder of XL Recordings. He will be playing records from the collection of Turkish electronic composer Ilhan Mimaroglu alongside spoken word samples and instrumental music edited and cut to acetate for the event.

3pm
Howie B. is a Scottish musician, producer and DJ, who has worked with artists including Björk, U2, Tricky, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Soul II Soul, Robbie Robertson, Elisa,  Marlene Kuntz , Sly and Robbie and Bashar Murad.

He will take a sonic journey expressing love, equality and grace.

12pm
David Harrison’s paintings, drawings and sculptures present a world where the natural and supernatural go hand in hand. Harrison’s works expand the languages of contemporary painting and sculpture, drawing into play parts of the culture which are often forgotten, buried, discarded or disregarded. The artist employs all that has lain outside of the mainstream of modern art – age-old symbols and fanciful myth, irrational beliefs, traditional genres like landscape, exuberant sexuality, barbed wit, and wonder at the natural world – in order to speak vividly about our own time, and to revivify the disciplines of painting and sculpture. 

This session will be a musical experience, The Thrill Of It All. Baroque, reggae, psychedelia, pop, rock and classical. No rhyme or reason, just sweet sweet music.

3pm
Jarvis Cocker is a musician and broadcaster from the north of England. He formed the band Pulp in 1978, whilst at secondary school. They went on to become one of the most successful UK groups of the 1990s. His lyric collection Mother, Brother, Lover was published by Faber in 2011. Good Pop, Bad Pop, his first work of long-form prose, was published by Jonathan Cape in 2022. Cocker has honorary doctorates from both Sheffield Hallam University and Central Saint Martin’s School of Art (which he attended from 1988 to 1991).

Between 2009 and 2017 Jarvis presented the BBC Radio 6 Music programme Jarvis Cocker’s Sunday Service. It was an attempt to lull the listener into a pleasant state of receptive semi-consciousness. His session will be an attempt to present a live version of this radio show. Prepare to be transported.

12pm
Johan Kugelberg and Jon Savage

Johan Kugelberg is an archivist, author and curator based in New York City where he runs Boo-Hooray, regularly issuing catalogues of rare books and ephemera. 

Jon Savage is the author of England’s Dreaming, Teenage, 1966 and The Secret Public. He is co-founder of the British Pop Archive at Manchester University.

Jon’s selection will include music from Link Wray to Dee-Lite, intensity is the word and the word is love. Johan Kugelberg will play a set acting as a noisy Sancho Panza to Jon Savage’s glorious Don Quixote.

 

3pm
Tash LC

12pm
Tam Joseph (b. 1947) is a Dominica-born British painter, his practice is located at the centre of sociopolitical commentary, often making work that shocks as it amuses, amuses as it shocks.
He will play a selection of music by artists such as Big Youth, James Brown, John Coltrane, Mighty Sparrow, Pat Kelly, I Roy, U Roy, Burning Spear, Jimi Hendrix, Manu Dubango, Yabby You, Santana, Miles Davis, Marvin Gay, Bootsy Collins, and more.

4pm
John Coxon – Atlantis Records 

John Coxon is a London-based musician and record producer best known for his 30-year collaboration with Ashley Wales as Spring Heel Jack, and for his long-standing association with Spiritualized, playing guitar with J Spaceman since 1994.

He is interested in improvised music, collaborating with artists such as Evan Parker and John Tchicai through his label Treader, and more recently co-founded Atlantis Records in Hackney with Liam Casey.

He will play records from his own label such as Masses, Evan Parker with Birds, John Tchicai with Strings, with other music from Dale Berning, Alice Shields, Maxine Funke, Takano Masaaki, Yusukazu Amemiya, Woo, and Derek Bailey.

12pm
Nick Haskell

Born in San Fernando, Trinidad & Tobago, Nick Haskell is a selector dedicated to the deeper narratives of Caribbean music. His practice explores the rare Funk, Soul, Chutney, and Calypso B-sides that define the island’s true sonic architecture.
This set acts as a musical ethnography of T&T. Nick traces the social commentary of 20th-century Kaiso and the fusion of Calypso and Indo-Trinidadian rhythms that birthed Soca, before concluding with “Future Rapso” – unreleased electronic fusions from the island’s talented producers.

3pm
Andrew Pierre Hart is an interdisciplinary artist, whose main focus is the symbiotic relationship between sound and painting. Andrew’s practice is an ongoing rhythmic research and play of improvised and spontaneous generative processes, through various mediums: sound, video, performance, found object, image, language, photography and installation.He is currently exploring the themes of improvisation, collective memory, cross-modality, spatialisation, musicality and locational response.

Andrew will play esoteric jazz , spoken word and random recordings from his collection of vinyl records and cassette tapes, including: Derek Walcott, Kamau Braithwaite, Billy Woods, Fred Moten and more.

10am – 5pm
Perfect Lives
East London music and book shop, Perfect Lives, will be taking over from 10am–5pm on Saturday 31 January; bringing friends Jack Rollo and Elaine Tierney (Time is Away), Ziggy Devriendt (Nosedrip/Stroom) and Samuel Kilcoyne (Augenblick Press).

5pm
Judah Afriyie
High Hopes is a cultural practice and platform founded by Judah Afriyie that brings people together through a devotional listening experience around music. Rooted in memory, the Black condition, and spiritual sound, the platform uses collective listening as a space for reflection, healing, and shared presence.

12pm
Andy Westbury is the co-owner of Eldica Records in Dalston, East London. Established over 25 years ago, Eldica Records is a crucial destination for those with a passion for funk, soul, jazz and a plethora of Caribbean music. Andy has been passionately collecting records since 1983. His knowledge of rap, soul and funk is second to none.
He’ll play a selection of funky music from the USA and the Caribbean, with a focus on Trinidad and Tobago, the country of Eldica’s origin.

3pm
Actress (aka Darren J Cunningham) is an artist and producer based in London. Across multiple releases for Ninja Tune and via his own Werkdiscs imprint, Cunningham has created his own arcane language filled with hermetic references and inter-dimensional electronic composition.

12pm
Joe Boyd  arrived in Britain in 1964 as manager of a tour starring Muddy Waters and Sister Rosetta Tharpe. He stayed on to found the legendary UFO club and became a key figure in the London music scene. He began producing records in 1966; across six decades he has worked with Pink Floyd, Nick Drake, Richard Thompson, Cubanismo, Maria Muldaur, R.E.M., Dudu Pukwana, Jazz Jamaica, Billy Bragg, Toots and the Maytals, Taj Mahal, the Incredible String Band, Fairport Convention, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Defunkt, Ivo Papasov and Sandy Denny among many others. September 2024 saw the release of his new book And the Roots of Rhythm Remain: A Journey Through Global Music. A memoir, White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s was published in 2005. His film productions include Jimi Hendrix, Amazing Grace and Scandal.

Responding to the atmosphere in Peter Doig’s paintings, he will play some of his favourite records from his collection.

 

3pm
Nihal El Aasar  is an Egyptian independent writer, researcher, political analyst and radio host and DJ. She has written about politics, political economy, culture, literature and music in several publications including Verso, Jacobin, Parapraxis, Art Review, The Wire, Protean, Novara media, Africa is a Country, GQ and others, as well as authoring a book chapter about Egyptian political economy and consulting on related issues. She has also been interviewed about her writing and analysis on several platforms. Since 2022, she has been a regular host at NTS radio based in London, where she hosts her monthly show Nile to Bank, highlighting alternative and left-field music from the Arab region as well as hosting music practitioners from the region to highlight the natural overlap and crossovers of musical influences in the Middle East. 

This listening session unfolds as a non-chronological, tactile journey through both older and contemporary Arab sound worlds, played through cassette tape and vinyl. Moving between rare archival recordings and present-day releases, the set traces how sound travels in a city messily, across different genres drawing inspiration from Cairo’s soundscape. Imperfect transitions are left intact to convey reality and as evidence of use, circulation, and longevity. These textures hold space for classic and experimental sounds, pop, folk, and underground club to sit side by side, revealing the continuities between what is often labeled “traditional,” “alternative,” and “popular.” A realistic depiction of an almost undeliberate listening experience. 

EVENING SCHEDULE

7.30pm
Bass Culture Live: Linton Kwesi Johnson & Roger Robinson

A live sonic encounter with two pioneers of Black British poetry and dubLinton Kwesi Johnson and Roger Robinson. 

Bass Culture Live brings together two seminal figures in Black British art and literature, Linton Kwesi Johnson and Roger Robinson, whose fusion of reggae, dub, and poetry have reshaped Britain’s cultural and political soundscape.  

In this special DJ collaboration, Johnson and Robinson reimagine the turntable as a site of memory and dialogue, tracing reggae’s journey from its Jamaican origins to its profound influence on diasporic identity, resistance, and creative expression. Through vinyl and voice, they invite listeners to experience bass as history, rhythm as resistance, and dub as an enduring language of survival. 

7pm
Brian Eno – Records that changed my life

Brian Eno is a pioneering musician, producer, visual artist and activist, whose practice spans music, production, installation and activist work. Emerging with Roxy Music in the early 1970s, he has since shaped the sonic landscape through influential solo projects and through producing and collaborating with artists including Talking Heads, U2, David Bowie, Harold Budd, David Byrne and Grace Jones. His light and video installations have been presented internationally across major cultural venues. A co-founder of Earth Percent and HardArt, and trustee of ClientEarth, his recent work includes a generative film on his practice, new recordings with Beatie Wolfe, and What Art Does (Faber, 2025).

For Sound Service, Eno will play a selection of records that changed his life.

7pm
Dennis Bovell and Lloyd Coxsone – Back to School

In this collaborative listening session, Dennis Bovell and Lloyd Coxsone will dive into the history of reggae and lovers rock – two genres which they have helped shape and heavily contributed to throughout the decades. They will explore their mutual influence on one another and the importance of sound system culture in breaking down social and racial barriers in Britain.

Sir Lloyd Coxsone (born Lloyd Blackford) is a legendary Jamaican-born sound system operator and producer who became a cornerstone of British reggae after moving to London in 1962. He founded one of the UK’s most influential sound systems, which played a major role in introducing “Roots and Culture” to British audiences and touring across Europe. He is recognized as one of the 70 founding members of the Notting Hill Carnival and is honoured with a blue plaque for his contributions. Coxsone is widely credited with helping birth the Lovers Rock genre by blending smooth soul sensibilities with heavy reggae basslines. He released the seminal instrumental dub albums King of the Dub Rock (1975) and its 1982 sequel.

Dennis Bovell MBE (born 1953) is a Barbados-born, UK-based multi-instrumentalist and record producer who has spent over five decades as a pivotal architect of British reggae. In the mid-1970s, Bovell co-founded Matumbi, one of the UK’s first self-contained reggae bands, known for hits like “After Tonight” and the Top 10 single “Point of View”. Under the pseudonym Blackbeard, he released influential dub recordings such as Strictly Dub Wize (1978). He is credited with co-founding the Lovers Rock genre, a soulful, British-born style of reggae that gained international popularity. Bovell’s production style is characterized by a “bass-heavy” sound and experimental use of technology, leading him to work with a wide array of talent, including Linton Kwesi Johnson, Janet Kay, The Slits (Cut), The Pop Group (Y), Orange Juice, and The Thompson Twins.

7pm
Andrew Hale and Nabihah Iqbal – Listening Out, Listening In

Andrew Hale and Nabihah Iqbal embark on a sonic journey with no boundaries, selecting music from their record collections that traverses history, culture and genre. The listening session explores what music means to us, and how its universal power reaches us, regardless of time and place.

Andrew Hale is a founding member of the band Sade, who have been together for over 40 years, and whose ongoing contemporary relevance continues to influence a new generation of artists. Other musical projects have included the soundtrack to Rockstar Games’ LA Noire for which he was awarded a BAFTA, and groups Sweetback, Watermelon (alongside Toshio Nakanishi and K.U.D.O from Major Force) and writing and production with Corinne Bailey-Rae, Jim White and others.
He has a long association with the art world whether as collector, sometime DJ and musical collaborator, and co-producer on DESTRICTED, an art film project featuring artists including Matthew Barney, Marina Abramovic and Larry Clark.

Nabihah Iqbal is a music artist, who has made her prolific work rate look effortless with a resume as varied as her musical output. Nabihah is one of the longest-running resident DJs on the seminal London radio station NTS, and she has appeared frequently across the BBC, having presented shows on Radio 1, Radio 3, Radio 4, 6Music, and the World Service. Nabihah also hosts a monthly show on New York City’s The Lot Radio, and through her radio work and energetic club and festival sets, she has carved out a unique space for herself as a DJ who explores music made for dancing, defying boundaries of genre, geography and history. Her 2023 album ‘DREAMER’ garnered huge critical acclaim internationally from the likes of the Guardian, the Washington Post, the Observer, The Quietus and 10 Magazine. She has toured around the world extensively, playing shows across Europe, North and South America, Africa, Asia and Australasia.

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7pm
Bobby Gillespie plays Bob Dylan

‘Bob’s music has always been there for me and got me through some tough times’.—Bobby Gillespie

Bobby Gillespie is a singer and songwriter with the Scottish rock and roll band Primal Scream. He has been listening to the music of Bob Dylan ever since the 1960’s when his parents played Dylan’s albums at their home in Glasgow.

Gillespie will play a selection of Dylan’s songs from the late 1970’s, tracks from Street Legal, Slow Train Coming and Saved – Dylan’s gospel period, which Gillespie particularly loves. This selection will be intertwined with 1980’s records, such as Infidels.

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House of Music transforms the gallery into a listening space and explores the role of music, film and communal gathering in Peter Doig’s (b. 1959, Edinburgh, Scotland) practice. Each week, Sound Service gathers Doig’s friends and special guests to play records from their collections, adding to and expanding the sonic aspect of the exhibition.

Spanning the last 25 years, the exhibition brings together the artist’s paintings with sound for the first time. At the core of the exhibition are two sets of rare, restored analogue speakers, originally designed for cinemas and large auditoriums in the early and mid-twentieth century. Music selected by the artist – from his vast archive of vinyl records and cassette tapes accumulated over decades – plays daily through a pair of original ‘high fidelity’ 1950s wooden Klangfilm Euronor speakers. A rare Western Electric and Bell Labs sound system, produced in the late 1920s and early 1930s to meet the demands of the first ‘talking movies’, is installed in the central gallery.

On Sundays and select weekdays, the space is activated by Sound Service, a series of live listening sessions where guest musicians and artists play tracks from their own music collections on the Western Electric and Bell Labs system. On select evenings, visitors will encounter new and unexpected acoustic exchanges between invited guests. An integral part of the exhibition, Sound Service fosters sonic dialogues while exploring sound as memory, listening as gathering, and the loudspeaker as sculpture and conduit.

Sunday and weekday Sound Service participants: Actress, Judah Afriyie, Atlantis Records Liam Casey and John Coxon, Howie B., Dare Balogun, Lizzi Bougatsos, Joe Boyd, David Byrne, Cafe OTO – Hamish Dunbar, Jarvis Cocker, Jerald ‘Coop’ Cooper, Andrew Cranston with John MacLean, Anthony Collymore, Brian DeGraw with Alexis Taylor, Dominic Dyson, Nihal El Aasar, Eldica Records – Andy Westbury, Jem Finer, Danny Fitzgerald, Lloyd Foster, Edward George, Cyrus Goberville, David Harrison, Andrew Pierre Hart, Nick Haskell, Brandon Hocura, Arthur Jafa, Tam Joseph, Behrang Karimi, Klose One – Ruairi Kennedy, Masakatsu Kondo, Johan Kugelberg with Jon Savage, Lawrence Kumpf, Mark Leckey, Olukemi Lijadu, Noah Max, Jörg Mohaupt, Santiago Mostyn, Sean O’Hagan, Basma Osman, Perfect Lives with Time is Away – Jack Rollo and Elaine Tierney; Nosedrip/Stroom – Ziggy Devriendt; Augenblick Press – Samuel Kilcoyne, Radio Alhara – Elias and Yousef Anastas, Max Richter, James Righton, Ed Ruscha, Richard Russell, Alain Salomon, Sam Strang, Soul Jazz Records, Tash LC, Duval Timothy, Wajang Diskotheque with Soundway Records of London and Gladdy Wax.

Evening Sound Service participants: Dennis Bovell with Lloyd Coxsone, Lisa Damberg, Brian Eno, Bobby Gillespie, Andrew Hale with Nabihah Iqbal and Linton Kwesi Johnson with Roger Robinson.

Sound Service with Movement: Satie Studs by Michael Clark performed by Jules Cunningham with garments by Phoebe Philo.

Curated by Natalia Grabowska, Curator at Large, Architecture and Site-specific Projects and Kostas Stasinopoulos, Curator, Live Programmes with Alexa Chow, Assistant Exhibitions Curator

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