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Sound Escapes

3 Aug 2009

A new exhibition exploring music and sound continues in east London this month. Sound Escapes looks at the very nature of sound; why is one person's noise, music to another person's ears? In what ways are our emotions affected by sound? Can you hear a photograph? Do ears make their own sounds? Does the microphone ever lie? These are just some of the questions explored by the works on show.

The exhibition includes Thomson & Craighead's new work A universal machine for testing everything, which invites visitors to make outgoing calls using a telephone line connected to a commercially available lie detector. Alongside the telephone and pinned to the wall are test reports documenting previous calls the artists made to a series of speaking clocks while traveling in the UK and abroad.

Peter Cusack’s Soundscape Sequencer, the main artistic commission from the research project itself, allows visitors to mix surround sound into their own sonic panorama based on field recordings from different cities around the world. Using noise pollution statistics from DEFRA, Simon Elvins’ Silent London shows a contoured landscape of the quietest parts of the city.

The exhibition takes place at SPACE, 129 – 131 Mare Street, London E8 3RH, until 15 August 2009.

For more information visit www.spacestudios.org

 

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