Swindon Hosts Unique Sonic Body Lab at Festival of Tomorrow

Neon Dance created a lab with tech experts at Swindon’s Festival of Tomorrow. This lab lets people play wearable sound art, which they call “sound activated by body movement.” The movement can play the sculptures.

Kids aged four to eleven can enjoy the lab, and their families can also join the fun. It lets them explore future performance art. Visitors can design wearables using clay, shaping future designs.

Adrienne Hart is the project’s creative leader, happy to return to the Festival. The lab asks about future music, questioning what it will look, sound, and feel like. She thinks it will excite all who enter and offers a fun activity in Swindon.

Neon Dance and Dr. Ana Rajcevic, who works at MIT in Boston, made this lab. Last year’s lab showed live robots, which worked with Bristol Robotics Lab. Lab ideas will help future Neon Dance shows.

You can see your wearable designs in 2026 when the Festival of Tomorrow returns. The Sonic Body Lab is at the Designer Outlet, Unit 94, next to The Body Shop. It’s open February 15-22, 10 AM to 4 PM, with free entry for everyone.

A talk on sonic experiences is also happening at The Deanery CE Academy, and you can watch online at 2:15 PM on February 22. Book ahead via Neon Dance’s website. The Sonic Body Lab is part of the Festival, which runs February 14-22 in Swindon, with the finale on February 21 and 22.