I'm probably, like 80%, going to this exhibition on Sunday. Thought this would be of interest to other friends here. 'The World Is Sound' at the Rubin Museum in Chelsea. For the extremely lazy, here is the description (literally from the site I hyperlinked) ->
Learn to listen with your whole body. Visitors will explore how sound and our sense of hearing shape our daily lives, our traditions, our history, and all of existence. The World Is Sound employs sound in new ways to animate and intensify the experience of art in the Rubin’s collection. Organized cyclically—from creation to death to rebirth—the exhibition explores different dimensions of sound and listening and its many functions in Tibetan Buddhism.
Featuring work by more than 20 artists, The World Is Sound juxtaposes new site-specific commissions and works by prominent contemporary sound artists with historical objects from the museum’s collection of Tibetan Buddhist art to encourage reflection on how we listen and to challenge entrenched ways of thinking.
The Museum space itself will become an instrument of transformation. The centerpiece of the exhibition is Le Corps Sonore (Sound Body), an immersive, site-specific installation composed for the Rubin Museum’s iconic spiral staircase by the pioneering electronic sound artists Éliane Radigue, Laetitia Sonami, and Bob Bielecki. Ambient drone sounds inspired by Buddhist philosophy are “tuned” to the building, and will ascend and descend as visitors wind their way up the staircase. The subtlety and ephemerality of the sounds prepare the listener for understanding a core tenet of Buddhist philosophy, where music is a metaphor for change and impermanence. As with the entire exhibition, Le Corps Sonore invites visitors to slow down and consider their bodily engagement with sound, space, and their individual perceptions.
The exhibition features works by contemporary artists including C. Spencer Yeh, Christine Sun Kim, Ernst Karel, Hildegard Westerkamp, John Giorno, Jules Gimbrone, MSHR, Nate Wooley, Pauline Oliveros, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, and Samita Sinha.
The exhibition also includes Tibetan Buddhist ritual music from several monasteries in Nepal and India, the voices of Rubin visitors recorded in the OM Lab (software and 3D sound design by Terence Caulkins of Arup). Daniel Neumann is Lead Acoustic Designer for the exhibition.
An audio tour, print and online magazine, and series of public programs will complement the exhibition.
For me personally...Éliane Radigue...enough said.
Re: NYC Drone Friends...The Wold Is Sound Exhibition
Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2018 4:42 pm
by DRodriguez
Rad, I'll check it out!
Re: NYC Drone Friends...The Wold Is Sound Exhibition
Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2018 4:51 pm
by Chankgeez
DRodriguez wrote:Radigue!?! I'll check it out!
FTFY!
Re: NYC Drone Friends...The Wold Is Sound Exhibition
Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2018 7:28 pm
by Ugly Nora
Seems kinda cold to be walking around the city.
Re: NYC Drone Friends...The Wold Is Sound Exhibition
Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2018 7:33 pm
by $harkToootth
"The cold is my only master...the cold is my only teacher"
Actually on that note. It sort of saddens me the great Thomas KÖNER did not contribute to this.
Re: NYC Drone Friends...The Wold Is Sound Exhibition
Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2018 2:11 pm
by $harkToootth
Just left. Really cool. Not essential though. Favorite part was what I predicted. Eliane's score for the staircase. It was less about new ways of perceiving sound and more about Tibetan Buddhism. One really awesome component was they had a shrine room from an affluent house. The room was a spectacle in and of itself but the accompanying music...my goodness.
Re: NYC Drone Friends...The Wold Is Sound Exhibition
Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2018 2:12 pm
by $harkToootth
If I track down similar things I will post in the world music thread.
Learning about the mantras was cool...you could do that at home though.
Re: NYC Drone Friends...The Wold Is Sound Exhibition
Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2018 6:04 pm
by $harkToootth
$harkToootth wrote:If I track down similar things I will post in the world music thread.
Learning about the mantras was cool...you could do that at home though.
Okay, so I followed up with one of the exhibition curators. The music that was ever so lovely and hypnotizing was made especially for the museum so I have nothing to share.
To quote the curator, "The audio is contributed to us from a ritual dedicated to the deity Tara, by the Tibetan Nuns Project."
I didn't see any CD's in their shop. The closest thing I could find was Tibetan Nuns chanting. So you'll have to use your imagination to put together what I think I heard .
Imagine these vocals over drones from a gong/singing bowls.
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Skip to like 7:13 and try to mash it up with the above chants.
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