When
I was selected to create a work for the contemporary art museum in
Genoa, it seemed only natural to begin with the sea, as the sea
permeates the culture and lives of the Genoese. It is
entirely appropriate that a sense of the sea should literally
permeate their museum gallery.
Rather
than the cartoonish effect of merely transposing literal sea
sounds to the gallery, I decided instead to tune the sound waves of the
tide to the gallery from which they issue in the installation, so that
the gallery itself speaks of the sea.
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As
extracted from a recording of the sea,
MIRROR
OF THE MOON features only
those frequencies that
are resonant to the largest gallery space in the museum.
As the sonic
reality of the space is enriched, architectural spatial senses of the
gallery are enhanced. Sounds of the Mediterranean meld into an
environment that stands in relation to itself, the city and the sea. |
Mediterranean Sea, Genoa, Italy
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