Sound has long been a subject of interest in the history of the visual arts. This exhibition highlights the renewed fruitfulness of this cross-fertilisation over the last twenty years. lt brings together major works from the Centre Pompidou's collection and those by artists and musicians based in China who have explored the expressive potential of sound, particularly its capacity to be diffused and to be ubiquitous. Alongside these historical artists, the exhibition showcases the range of practices that are developing today, moving fluidly from concerts to installations, from musical compositions to the development of new visual languages. lmprovisation protocols and collective practices, sampling and collage, feedback and filtering, algorithmic generation and creation through social networks... Sound and music inspire meaningful gestures that reflect our waving relationship to the world. "I Never Dream Otherwise than Awake"-the title of one of the works in the exhibition, by Emmanuel Lagarrigue-suggests a subtle line between waking and dreaming, between a lucid perception of the here and now and a semi-conscious state of research, hinting at sensations yet to come.