Chorus
February, 2009
ChorusCommissioned to celebrate the re-opening of the Howard Assembly Room, ‘Chorus’ is simultaneously an intensely physical and yet ephemeral experience. An array of motor-assisted pendulums, suspended from the roof, swing through the space emitting light and sound. As the dynamic system evolves, the rhythms revolve through chaos and return to unison, producing a hypnotic and seductive performance that heightens the viewer’s awareness of the space and their relationship with it. ‘Chorus’ is effectively a new kind of musical instrument, one in which the spatial location of each sound is a critical part of the composition of the piece.
Commissioned by Opera North
in association with The Culture Company
Music by Mira Calix
The Howard Assembly Room, Opera North, Leeds.
Last Photo of Slide Show by Julia Parsons.
February 6th - March 1st
Mondays- Saturdays 13:00-19.30
Making Array
January, 2009
Photographs whilst making Array in London and Yamaguchi, Japan.
Photographs 20-26 part of James Medcraft’s Yamaguchi Series.
Array
December, 2008
Commissioned by Yamaguchi Center for Arts And Media (YCAM)
for their fifth anniversary, as part of the Yuda Art Project.
Supported by The British Council, Tokyo
‘Array’ is a field of columns set in the courtyard of the Chuya Nakahara
Memorial Museum in Southern Japan. The columns create a field of
light and sound which gently shifts in response to the viewers’ movements,
via a hidden network of ultrasonic sensors. Each column is lit by a pure,
shimmering white light. This forest of light light calls you in, and its response
to your movement invites you to explore. Inside the grid lives a spirit,
in the form of a single pure red light. This spirit is timid but often playful,
revealing itself boldly then disappearing.