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
July 12 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Clarinettist / composer / maker Jack McNeill will lead a session exploring alternative arrangement and re-composition techniques for contemporary folk tunes. Using some of the material on his new album… Continue reading WORKSHOP: Chamber Cairn with Jack McNeill
July 12 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Cumbrian artist Jack McNeill launches his debut solo album Chamber Cairn at Full of Noises. Experience Jack perform this unbelievable long-player in the intimate surroundings of Piel View House.… Continue reading CONCERT: Jack McNeill – Chamber Cairn launch concert
July 13 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
See a series of six short films by creative force Jessie Growden. Jessie's work explores place, landscape and personal experiences through playful and also structural approaches to recording and presenting… Continue reading FILM: Films of place and landscape by Jessie Growden + Q&A
August 9 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Aoire is local musician and sound artist Shaun Blezard. He is joined by John Hall for a work in progress combination of text and music as part of the Artspace… Continue reading CONCERT: Aoire and John Hall – a Reverb night of text and music
August 15 @ 8:00 pm – August 17 @ 4:00 pm
The Ear to the Estuary is a sound and vision exhibition in response to the Ravenglass estuary by artist RL Wilson. The work is the result of a research residency.… Continue reading EXHIBITION: The Ear to the Estuary by RL Wilson
August 20 @ 6:30 pm – 9:15 pm
Tilda Swinton plays Jessica, a haunted British woman who wanders the streets of Colombian cities Bogota and Medellin, in suspended shock from increasingly loud bangs she hears each night, preventing… Continue reading FILM: Memoria
September 13 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Lou Barnell / Amy Clark Lou Barnell brings GINKO to Full of Noises. GINKO is a Live Dream. She is part story, part rave, part embodied listening meditation. GINKO is… Continue reading Concert: Lou Barnell / Amy Clark
October 11 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
From Scandanavia to South Cumbria - Death and Vanilla arrive at Full of Noises with a remarkable re-imagined live score to a cult film. 'Whistle And I'll Come to You'… Continue reading CONCERT: Death and Vanilla – ‘Whistle And I’ll Come To You’
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
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 and Gwenifer Raymond to the… Continue reading CONCERT: Lonnie Holley / Gwenifer Raymond