BARBICAN BACKSTAGE: AUDIBLE ARCHIVE OF ORCHESTRAL SOUNDS >Museum
Site Location _ Barbican Estate, London Subject _ Studio 02-Barbican Year 4 Summer Tutor: Oskar & Rennie Liffen _ rliffen@unimelb.edu.au,oskar.kazmanliliffen@unimelb.edu.au Type: Individual Work
Whilst symphonic orchestra is all about perfection and performance at the Barbican Theatre, the joy of making sound through a simple touch has been long forgotten. Noise is suffused in our life, not all the sounds naturally made are melodic, yet beautiful. This is a museum of sounds, especially the process of making sounds. With publicly accessible musical instruments, people are encouraged to engage with a piece of wood, a piece of metal, a layer of membrane to make sounds.
Space are divided into four quadrants, following the taxonomy of chordophones, aerophones, membranophones and idiophones. They are distributed according to the site context, with soft edges of cafe and strings, hard interface between concrete wall and drums, secluded centre of the grand piano, and the waterfront with brass.
Chordophone Sound Produced by Vibrating Strings
Aerophone Sound Produced by Vibrating Columns of Air
Membranophone Sound Produced by Vibrating Membrane
Idiophone Sound Produced by Vibrating Themselves
To establish frameworks, to collect, to curate, echoing Sophie Calle’s pursuit on art. Infusing herself in the real world, forensically collect moments in life, followed by an excessive amount of collections enough to generate resonance. The architecture begins with a frame in grid, being filled with hanging acoustic panels of different properties. Walls are liberated from the ground, becoming the messenger for sound. With waves bouncing around, people start the safari of sounds.
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