Frieze London 2014 has landed in Regent’s Park and for those unable
to attend or those just gasping at £24 (and that’s their attempting to be
student friendly price) then Frieze sounds is for you (sort of).
Frieze sounds is a program consisting of three specially commissioned
sound works by international artists, Keren Cytter, Cally Spooner and Hannah Weinberger. Although originally at Frieze New York, Frieze sounds will be
presented at Frieze London 2014 in the snazzy VIP cars, via a listening station inside the fair and
is available to the great and the good via the good old internet here: www.friezeprojectsny.org/sounds . Each track is available to download, so those of you adorned with Apple products can shuffle the sound pieces among that annoying U2 album bestowed upon you.
For Frieze sounds, Hannah Weinberger debuts “Hey” (click here to listen) where the
bass of the soundtrack is the frequency of her own baby’s heartbeat, (talk
about primary sourcing found sound). This is then overlaid with field recordings
of natural and artificial settings. In a sentence; beautiful, bonkers, and a
bit brilliant.
Weinberger’s early works utilised her own voice and where
often set on loop to create a magnetic cycle that attracts and repels as the
visual impact of the sound is imparted as each viewer translates the rhythms
into a subjective intangible visual. Sound is making something of a
breakthrough in contemporary art at the moment, with Alison Carlier winning the Jerwood Drawing prize with
her audio drawing – it’s great to see (or should I say hear) that the volume of
sound works is being turned up by the art world.
_If You Leave, Walk Out Backwards, So I’ll Think You’re Walking In, 2012, installation view
The digitalization of sound and its ability to be made
accessible and considerably more democratic than more traditional forms of art
such as painting enhances its visual impact. This may sound like an ironic turn
of phrase, however sound is visual although not in form but in spirit – its means
of existence is inherently programmed for us to translate and interpret – but to
most importantly be experienced first-hand in our own internal space.
Be sure to take a look and a listen to Frieze Sounds, if not
at the fair then in the comfort of a slightly claustrophobic tube trip or even
on your phone in a field of sheep (whatever floats your boat) – at least you’ll
be away from the champagne quaffing art speak people.
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