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Building Music: An Architectural Walking Tour & Sing Along

  • Thursday 21 July
  • 6:30-8:30pm

  • Starting Point: Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG

  • Nearest Tube
  • Southwark (Jubilee)

Walking Tour

Hold onto your hats folks, this is the quirkiest walking tour in the history of walking tours. Architectural historian Dr. Ayla Lepine will be leading you through a series of fascinating and wildly different architectural spaces including Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, Norman Foster’s Millennium Bridge, St. Paul’s Cathedral, St. Dunstan in the West, Cleopatra’s Needle and possibly one of London’s finest architectural icons, a bus shelter. So now for the musical twist. You’ll be encouraged to actually experience these spaces through the reverberation of your voice. Yup, by singing. Fear not, there’ll be no solos (you don’t even have to make a peep if you don’t want to) and absolutely no musical talent is required. The harebrained principle behind this tour is that every object, including buildings, vibrate at a certain frequency and therefore resonate at a specific pitch. By finding that pitch and by singing along, you effectively tune in to the architecture, capiche? Utterly excellent fun.

This event is for Members Only (20 places)