Somewhere
Harmony, 2004
Site- specific
installation, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, NY Commission, 2004 Biennial
exhibition
1200 feet
of Plexiglas tubing and plastic tubing, lenses, mirrors, light, wire, speakers,
computer, soundtrack, existing architecture.
A spatial layering
of voices irrigates a five-story stairwell via a system of transparent tubing.
Speakers hidden in a crawl space near the top of the stairs emit an eight-channel
composition. Sound from each speaker is funneled into a separate tube to be
transported to a floor below. At the end of every tube, spectators may listen
to one of the individual voices that make up the composition.
The soundtrack
was made by recording 64 people singing, speaking and humming the song
"Over the Rainbow" and four sentences of text from the movie
"The Wizard of Oz". These individual voices were edited together
to make the eight- track composition.
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