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Luke Jerram: Sky Orchestra - A new interdiciplinary collaborative science art project |
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Sky Orchestra sculpts dream space
Luke Jerram is an interdisciplinary artist, fusing art with the physics and the psychology of perception. The Sky Orchestra aims to sculpt public dream space.
Last week a team of seven hot air balloons carrying audio speakers took off at dawn to fly over the city of Bristol, UK in a new ground-breaking arts event. Different parts of the music emanated from each hot air balloon creating a vast surround sound landscape designed specifically for the sleeping audience below.
Working on an unprecedented scale the Sky Orchestra is a spectacular musical flying event designed for an intimate and personal experience by a dreaming public.
Artistic Director Luke Jerram explains "We hoped to place people in a space somewhere on the edge of sleep in a meditative waking state, and then to inspire their imagination, sculpting dreams with music and spatial sound. Like whales calling in the ocean the same sounds were be heard in quick succession, passing across the sky from one balloon to another."
Film Composer Dan Jones and NESTA Fellow Luke Jerram have developed the music in consultation with sleep Psychologists from the University of Bristol.
A documentary film is being produced on DVD and the project will be toured internationally.
Read more about this project:
BBC1 Headline National News news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3132607.stm
BBC Radio Bristol Morning Programme
news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/1/hi/england/bristol/3095333.stm
http://www.lukejerram.com/live_works/sky_orchestra.htm
Dan Jones
www.fabermusic.co.uk/fabermusic/film_tv/index.htm
Map of performance flight from 7 Balloons over Bristol
comp. dawn performance over Bristol
Artist's Biography
Luke Jerram fuses his artistic sculptural practice with his scientific and perceptual studies. His practice involves the development of large scale installations and live projects, designing exhibits for science museums, the production of site specific works and the making of small art gifts.
Retinal Memory Volume is the title of an interactive installation commissioned by the Osnabruck European Media Arts Festival in 1997. Developed as a consequence of the artists colour-blindness this patented installation creates 3D retinal after-image sculpture. The work has since toured the media arts festivals of Europe.
Tide, is an installation which adapts 'live' to the gravitational influence of the sun and moon on the earth. Commissioned in 1998 by DA2 and completed in 2001 the work was developed by a specialist team of physicists, engineers and electricians. Jerram also worked with an astrophysicist, a volcanologist, a medieval musicologist and glassblowers to make the project happen. The work has since toured the UK and been shown in Estonia and in Canada at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.
Luke Jerram lives in Bristol Uk and is currently a NESTA Fellow.
* LUKE JERRAM *
luke@lukejerram.com
Tel (0117) 923 1969
5 Langton Park,
Bristol, UK.
BS3 1EG
http://www.lukejerram.com
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