CHORUS – Ray Lee
On Wednesday 27th, when the SPILL festival started, I visited the art installation/performance called Chorus in front of the Town Hall in Ipswich. From the notes that I made while watching it:
There is 11 pieces of sculptures and each of them were activated and oparated separately. The sculptures each were creating sounds: Eerie, siren like, but all together made an amazing song (?). It was very interesting to see the operators manually operating the whole sculpture withou communicating with each other, only looking at their clock on their necks. The operators also wore the same clothes and acted the same way, not smiling, looking very professional (reminded me of man in black). I also wrote down a sentence that I said to myself ,,You miss it, you don’t get to see it again” connecting to the fact that you can see it it in the moment, from the start to end. And then you have a feeling like it was a one moment experience that you wont be able to see it again. It felt like the world stopped for 30-ish minutes.
GAIA– Luke Jerram
This installation in the Town Hall was another amazing experience. There was the visual aspect to it, with the earth lightening up the whole space, and the sound following and completing the whole installation. The movement of gaia changes from different perspectives. It looks like its moving towards you once you change the perspective, aka going away from it, looking only at one point on the planet etc. The sound on the other hand was a collection of sound as it is, conversations and interviews. Or at least that’s what I thought it was.
