Sound Art & New Music in Cumbria
Full of Noises is a sound art and new music organisation based in Piel View House, Barrow Park. Our new performance space (opened in 2023) is regularly hosting concerts and events.
"This is a wonderful treasure of an organisation that has done extraordinary things for sound art, new music and community art..."
- Women in Sound / Women on Sound
Upcoming Events
October 28 @ 10:30 am – 2:30 pm
WORKSHOP: Barrow Park Ghost Train with Primitive Percussion Youth Orchestra + John Powell Jones Join Full of Noises and artists Mark Williamson (PPYO) and John Powell Jones to create a… Continue reading WORKSHOP: Barrow Park Ghost Train with Primitive Percussion Youth Orchestra + John Powell Jones
October 29 @ 10:30 am – 2:30 pm
WORKSHOP: Barrow Park Ghost Train with Primitive Percussion Youth Orchestra + John Powell Jones Join Full of Noises and artists Mark Williamson (PPYO) and John Powell Jones to create a… Continue reading WORKSHOP: Barrow Park Ghost Train with Primitive Percussion Youth Orchestra + John Powell Jones
October 30 @ 10:30 am – 2:30 pm
WORKSHOP: Barrow Park Ghost Train with Primitive Percussion Youth Orchestra + John Powell Jones Join Full of Noises and artists Mark Williamson (PPYO) and John Powell Jones to create a… Continue reading WORKSHOP: Barrow Park Ghost Train with Primitive Percussion Youth Orchestra + John Powell Jones
November 1 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Two artists from the same town head west to play at Piel View House. We are thrilled to welcome Bridget Hayden and Spaceship to the one bill. Bridget Hayden: Bridget… Continue reading CONCERT: Bridget Hayden / Spaceship
November 14 @ 7:00 pm – 10:30 pm
THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD-OUT An amazing double bill of two remarkable artists at the cutting edge of music and sound. This November Full of Noises will welcome Lonnie Holley… Continue reading CONCERT: Lonnie Holley / Gwenifer Raymond: SOLD-OUT
November 26 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
NEW DATE! - WEDNESDAY 26 NOVEMBER Aoire is local musician and sound artist Shaun Blezard. He is joined by John Hall for a work in progress combination of text and… Continue reading CONCERT: Aoire and John Hall – a Reverb night of text and music
November 29 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
WORKSHOP: Delia Derbyshire Day @ FON - A Barrow-Phonic Workshop Join members of Delia Derbyshire Day for a special workshop celebrating the pioneering electronic musician, composer and member of the… Continue reading WORKSHOP: Delia Derbyshire Day @ FON – A Barrow-Phonic Workshop
November 29 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
SCREENING / CONCERT: Delia Derbyshire Day @ FON Delia Derbyshire Day returns to FoN as part of the charity's 10th anniversary activities celebrating the pioneering electronic musician and composer whose… Continue reading SCREENING / CONCERT: Delia Derbyshire Day @ FON
November 30 @ 1:30 pm – 3:45 pm
Film: Sisters With Transistors The remarkable untold story of electronic music’s female pioneers, composers who embraced machines and their liberating technologies to utterly transform how we produce and listen to… Continue reading FILM: Sisters with Transistors – with Q&A
December 13 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Music Lab is a programme that brings local musicians together to play experimental music as a group. Sessions encouraged different ways of playing, listening, improvised work, use of sound objects,… Continue reading CONCERT: Music Lab 2025
January 16, 2026 @ 6:45 pm – 9:00 pm
The first of a new series of intriguing talking and listening sessions with people who make marvellous music. Sandra Parr host Andrew Deakin co-host Sandra Parr, Artistic Planning Director of… Continue reading Mark Simpson in Conversation – FON & Liverpool Philharmonic Listening Club
April 17, 2026 @ 6:45 pm – 9:00 pm
Full of Noises & Liverpool Philharmonic Listening Club: Helena Mackie and Drake Gritton in Conversation Friday 17 April 2026 Full of Noises Katy Wakeford-Brown host Two Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra… Continue reading Helena Mackie & Drake Gritton in Conversation – FON & Liverpool Philharmonic Listening Club