Loris Greaud - Tremors Where Forever (frequency of an image, white edit)

Loris Greaud - Tremors Where Forever (frequency of an image, white edit)

Altermodern - Tate Britain, 2009

Greaud's works frequently have multiple incarnations, projects become re-assessed and developed into a complex weave. He is best known for his ongoing project 'Cellar Door', which has been displayed internationally, existing as an opera, installation, architectural project, and even brand of 'taseless sweets', the project creates a deja vu like scenario as the viewer attempts to resolve the situation.

For Greauds 2009 installation at the Tate Triannale curated by Nicolas Bourriaud he conducted a neurological experiment to record his own brain activity for thirty minutes whilst in deep thought about the Cellar Door international project. The recorded brain waves were then converted into electrical frequencies which were then transmitted to a series of boxes attached to the gallery floor. Arranged in a symmetrical pattern similar to the layout of the cortexes of the brain Greauds cerebral wanderings became physical as the pulsating boxes emitted a drone like frequency. 

David Byrne - Playing the Building

David Byrne Playing the Building

Färgfabriken, Stockholm, Sweden, 2005

Playing the Building is a sound installation by former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne. In Playing The Building the entire building resonates as a muscial insruments triggered via an organ which visitors are invited to play. Metal beams, fixtures, fittings and supporting structures are activiated via wind, vibration or percussive striking.

Martin Creed - Down Over Up

Martin Creed - Down Over Up

Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 2010

'Down Over Up' at the Fruitmarket gallery consisted of recent and newly comissioned work by Creed. Focusing on stacking, the work mainly consisted of an ordering of materials into size, weight and colour with visible process having a precedent.

The title of the show took its name from the stair case in the gallery which Creed turned into a synthesizer. Each step sounds a different note in a scale, ascending in tone as your go up the stairs and descending as you go down. 

Haroon Mirza - Lisson Gallery February 2011

Haroon Mirza at Lisson (installation view)

February 2011

Haroon Mirza's first show as Lisson gallery, comprised of a series of  sculptural installations, functioned as a musical composition spread across the gallery's three exhibition spaces. Works functioned as autonomous single sculptures while also - due to be programmed in the same tempo and key - creating aural links between the space.



While researching the show Mirza took an interest in the Lisson gallery's archive and happened upon a set of correspondence detailing and diagramming instructions for installing a show by minimalist sculptor Fred Sandback. Mirza was inspired to strip back his show to a much more minimal approach, as well as to present his work alongside a remade version of the past show. Recreating Sandback's string constructions in LED strips and speaker cables, Mirza built the artists work into his own, embedding it into the space as both a feature and as part of his show's support.