Review: Wet Sounds

A picture may paint a thousand words, but music – specifically music in water – travels 4.5 times faster and is perceived through your bones. Yes, your bones, not your ears. Imagine what that would feel like. Well, you need not bother because as the title suggests, Wet Sounds is bringing you the goodness of sound in a wet environment: the Adelaide Aquatic Centre.

 

This is a communal experience as you float harmoniously above and below the water, with 50-odd strangers clinging to noodles. This may sound strange but it’s therapeutic in its hypnosis as the lights colour the pool from electric blues to ominous reds. Unfortunately, the props and underwater performers are an underwhelming aspect of the experience, leaving room for improvement visually and interactively. But we are ultimately there for the music, and the deeper we dive the clearer and closer it becomes, giving each individual swimmer total control over their own watery electronic soundtrack. 

 

So slip on your toggs and snatch up a snorkel, because this 40-minute underwater exploration is a refreshing immersion into a world of sound we rarely get the privilege to access.