Speaking Tubes 360

From July 2020 over a period of six weeks, IOU released a 360° viewable version of the Speaking Tubes Online: New Music Commissions to accompany each of the four musical compositions.

Immerse yourself in the speaking tubes audio productions.

Use a phone, computer, laptop or VR headset to navigate Speaking Tubes 360° visualisation virtually while listening to each artist’s composition. Please note – you will need to have the YouTube app to get the 360° experience on your phone.

Katie English 'Forties and Fives'

Virtually experience Speaking Tubes in 360 along with the spatialised audio version of Katie English’s (aka ISnaj Dui) composition ‘Forties and Fives’

Speaking Tubes 360: Jo Thomas 'In a Still Place'

Virtually experience Speaking Tubes in 360 along with the spatialised audio version of Jo Thomas’ composition ‘In a Still Place’. This musical work was commissioned for sound installation ‘Speaking Tubes’ in March 2020 as part of a series of three new commissions.

Speaking Tubes 360: Loui Binns 'Abiogenesis Tessellation'

Virtually experience Speaking Tubes in 360 along with the spatialised audio version of Loui Binns’ composition ‘Abiogenesis Tessellation’. This musical work was commissioned for sound installation ‘Speaking Tubes’ in March 2020 as part of a series of three new commissions.

Speaking Tubes 360: Yannis Kyriakides 'Shooting at Clouds'

Virtually experience Speaking Tubes in 360 along with the spatialised audio version of Yannis Kyriakides’ composition ‘Shooting at Clouds’. This musical work was originally commissioned for sound installation

'Taking part in Making It was an adventure into a creative world I hadn't taken part in before. Learning new skills and being around so many creative people was a breath of fresh air to me'

Making It participant *****

“Volatile Light is reminiscent of afterburn on early video cameras or a sparkler dancing on a dark winter’s night. You just don’t want it to fade away or go out.”

- 2012 Dig Yorkshire

“Here, irrespective of age, visitors can create infinite patterns and shapes using fairly rudimentary techniques. In this way IOU, as ever, explode the ticket, that is, reveal their working process.”

- 2012 Dig Yorkshire

"It was great"

Audience Member

“A profound, perception-altering, poetic experience.”

The Stage

“The new IOU theatre show is a little bit special, wonderfully poignant piece about seeing ourselves clearly from a distance.”

Lyn Gardner, The Guardian

'a beautiful, ethereal, spiritual whole-body experience”

Patternarium Audience Member

“...like being in a shower of tiny comets'

Audience Member, Patternarium

“A fabulous factory of fireflies”

Audience Member, Patternarium

“It was a very atmospheric experience.”

Audience Member, Long Division at Leeds Lit Fest

“I found it very intriguing! It was a unique experience, thank you.”

Audience Member, Long Division at Leeds Lit Fest

“Poetic exchanges are compartmentalised into the restraints of time, but still manage to be dream-like.”

Phil Kirby, The Culture Vulture

"I thoroughly enjoyed this. I got the sense I was a part of the model, when the camera looked out into the studio."

Audience Member, Fulcrum

"Very atmospheric, sets the imagination and memories whirring."

Audience Member, Fulcrum

Cure was a remarkable achievement, holding a mirror up to our society’s dis-ease

Dorothy Prior, Total Theatre Magazine

It was great

John Doe, Halifax

“A fabulous factory of fireflies”

"IOU's achievement in galvanising an intense, childlike response and reawakening our sense of wonder, is considerable"

The Independent
Large metal shiny trumpet shaped tube fills the image.

Speaking Tubes Online: New Commissions

May 2020

Online
The image shows a large warehouse space with huge silver tubes. At the end of each tube is a large open bowl, which looks like the end of a trumpet. There are figures in the middle of these tubes.

Speaking Tubes

September 2012

Industrial Scale Sound Installation
The image shows a large warehouse space with huge silver tubes. At the end of each tube is a large open bowl, which looks like the end of a trumpet. There are figures in the middle of these tubes.

Speaking Tubes – IOU Studio

May 2013

Industrial Scale Sound Installation