SoundEscapes - Sainsbury Museum and Art Centre

Displays Living Art

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 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 and across the Sculpture Park, 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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