Sensory experience guide

This exhibition features large-scale film and video installations, immersive audio environments, and interactive elements including turntables with vinyl. Sound levels vary throughout the exhibition and can be loud in some spaces.The exhibition includes dark spaces, flashing imagery, and loud or bass-heavy sound. Some works feature mild strobe effects, mature themes and mild coarse language. Visitors who are sensitive to sensory stimuli may wish to take care or speak to staff for guidance. More detailed content warnings are available within the gallery.

Captions, audio and language access

Several works in this exhibition are primarily visual and musical rather than dialogue based. Where works contain spoken word or lyrics, closed captions are available via a QR code on your own device.Closed captions are available in English, Simplified Chinese, Hindi and Punjabi.Written exhibition and artwork information is available in English within the gallery. Translations in English, Simplified Chinese, Hindi and Punjabi can be accessed via QR code on your own device.Audio description and Auslan interpretation are not available in the gallery but are offered on dedicated access tour dates.

Physical access and support

The exhibition is wheelchair accessible, lift access to the gallery is available.Seating is available throughout the exhibition, including a combination of beanbags and bench seating.Some interactive elements require fine motor control. Staff are available to assist—please speak to a team member if needed. ACMI staff are available throughout the exhibition and can provide assistance at any time.

What's on

ACMI and RISING present

Reverb: This is a journey into sound

From The Vinyl Factory

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Full

$25

Concession

$22

Group 6+

$22

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$20

Student

$15

Child - 4 to 15

$13

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When

Fri 22 May – Mon 31 Aug 2026

Closed Tuesdays & Wednesdays

The exhibition explores music’s influence on art, film and social movements, traversing hip hop and rap, house, techno, dancehall and Jamaican sound system culture.

Originally produced and staged at 180 Studios in London, the exhibition features audiovisual works by Stan Douglas, Jenn Nkiru, William Kentridge, Jeremy Deller, Kahlil Joseph, Gabriel Moses, Cecilia Bengolea and Julianknxx, alongside immersive installations by Virgil Abloh and Carsten Nicolai.

Spanning continents, eras and sound worlds, Reverb celebrates the power of music through large-scale moving image works and interactive installations. The exhibition moves between the joyous, meditative, pulsating and potent.

Experience a sculptural sound system. Play with endlessly remixable vinyl loops on Technics turntables. Dip into the hypnotic rhythms of a six-hour jam film set within a reconstruction of ‘The Church’, the legendary New York studio where Miles Davis, Pink Floyd and Bob Dylan recorded. Witness a fantasy rap battle racing along copper lines from Cairo to London.

Visit the Listening Room and choose from a curated collection of records for deep listening in an acoustically optimised space designed for pristine sound. After hours, the room hosts weekly sessions featuring local and international artists. Selected sessions are curated by Yasmine Sharaf, presenter of Triple R’s Cease + Desist, and Robin Fox, co-founder and artistic director of MESS.

A joyous, time-forgetting labyrinth of sound and vision.

The Guardian

A love letter to the power of music, an ear-rattling testament to how sound shapes society, shapes emotion, shapes history.

Time Out

Reverb: This is a journey into sound was originally commissioned and produced by 180 Studios and The Vinyl Factory and staged at 180 Studios, London in 2024.