Andrew Weatherall/Noise of Art/Boom Room review – a celebration of bass and space

Village Underground, London

Noise of Art convert highly resonant buildings into vast echo chambers in a celebration of the power of reverb and dub

You’d imagine nobody, except perhaps Muse’s Matt Bellamy, has ever wanted to turn a nuclear aircraft hangar into a massive guitar amp. But that’s the plan behind Boom Room, a project by London’s 10-year-old Noise of Art digital music collective that aims to celebrate and explore the power of reverb.

They do so by transforming the UK’s most resonant buildings – aircraft hangars, distilleries and, tonight, Shoreditch’s cavernous Village Underground – into gargantuan echo chambers, designed to make the visitor feel like a grain of sand bouncing on a speaker cone.

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by Mark Beaumont via Electronic music | The Guardian