"A car park. A church. The Pompidou Centre. A sewer. Beer's Resonance Project is wonderfully democratic in its various locations, reminding us that epiphanies can happen anywhere. The human voice, without electronic amplification, with no accompaniment other than its own recycled echoes, occurs to us as a beautiful revelation. The modesty of this work belies its far-reaching implications and the sheer pleasure it gives."
-Jonathan Watkins, curator and director of the Ikon Gallery
The film and photographic works presented here form the latest progression in Oliver Beer's three year long Resonance Project, an ongoing body of work consisting of films, sound pieces and performances which use the human voice to stimulate architectural spaces.
The Victorian sewer in Brighton, with its circular geometry and imperfect manual construction, becomes a vast clay organ pipe once occupied by the sound of these specially composed choral pieces. The music, written and performed to access the mathematically defined resonant frequency of the tunnel, causes the space to vibrate and ring like a wine glass at the tip of a finger.
For Deep and Meaningful, Beer returned to the sewer to produce a photographic edition based on his impressions of the space and its transformation through his initial film performance. It is the first time that Beer, whose wider practice extends beyond musical, performance and film work to drawing, sculpture and photography, has included photographs in the Resonance Project.
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