Collier, Mike (2017) Singing the World. 26 Aug - 3 Sep 2017, Cheeseburn.
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'Singing the World' Catalogue Text.pdf - Published Version -
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Short Catalogue Text and labels.pdf
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![[thumbnail of Installation shot]](https://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/6692/15.haslightboxThumbnailVersion/CB_17_389%202.jpg "Installation shot")
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![[thumbnail of Sixteen Birds of the dawn Chorus]](https://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/6692/16.haslightboxThumbnailVersion/CB_17_392%202.jpg "Sixteen Birds of the dawn Chorus")
Sixteen Birds of the dawn Chorus
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![[thumbnail of Sixteen Birds of the Dawn Chorus (detail)]](https://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/6692/17.haslightboxThumbnailVersion/CB_17_391.jpg "Sixteen Birds of the Dawn Chorus (detail)")
Sixteen Birds of the Dawn Chorus (detail)
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![[thumbnail of Dawn Chorus Chandelier (with Ayako Tani)]](https://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/6692/19.haslightboxThumbnailVersion/CB_17_402-Edit.jpg "Dawn Chorus Chandelier (with Ayako Tani)")
Dawn Chorus Chandelier (with Ayako Tani)
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Sixteen Birds of the dawn Chorus (colloquial names)
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The Song of the Wren
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![[thumbnail of Sixteen Birds of the Dawn Chorus (screen print)]](https://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/6692/22.haslightboxThumbnailVersion/Screen%20Shot%202017-10-31%20at%2020.06.07.png "Sixteen Birds of the Dawn Chorus (screen print)")
Sixteen Birds of the Dawn Chorus (screen print)
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![[thumbnail of Sixteen Birds of the Evening Chorus (screen print)]](https://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/6692/24.haslightboxThumbnailVersion/Screen%20Shot%202017-11-22%20at%2014.39.31.png "Sixteen Birds of the Evening Chorus (screen print)")
Sixteen Birds of the Evening Chorus (screen print)
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![[thumbnail of Installation shot]](https://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/6692/15/CB_17_389%202.jpg "Installation shot")
![[thumbnail of Sixteen Birds of the dawn Chorus]](https://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/6692/16/CB_17_392%202.jpg "Sixteen Birds of the dawn Chorus")
![[thumbnail of Sixteen Birds of the Dawn Chorus (detail)]](https://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/6692/17/CB_17_391.jpg "Sixteen Birds of the Dawn Chorus (detail)")
![[thumbnail of Installation shot]](https://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/6692/18/CB_17_473.jpg "Installation shot")
![[thumbnail of Dawn Chorus Chandelier (with Ayako Tani)]](https://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/6692/19/CB_17_402-Edit.jpg "Dawn Chorus Chandelier (with Ayako Tani)")
![[thumbnail of Sixteen Birds of the dawn Chorus (colloquial names)]](https://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/6692/20/Screen%20Shot%202017-08-16%20at%2012.28.27.png "Sixteen Birds of the dawn Chorus (colloquial names)")
![[thumbnail of The Song of the Wren]](https://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/6692/21/Screen%20Shot%202017-08-16%20at%2012.29.20.png "The Song of the Wren")
![[thumbnail of Sixteen Birds of the Dawn Chorus (screen print)]](https://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/6692/22/Screen%20Shot%202017-10-31%20at%2020.06.07.png "Sixteen Birds of the Dawn Chorus (screen print)")
![[thumbnail of Sixteen Birds of the Evening Chorus (screen print)]](https://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/6692/24/Screen%20Shot%202017-11-22%20at%2014.39.31.png "Sixteen Birds of the Evening Chorus (screen print)")
Abstract
Abstract
Imitating with the mouth the fluid voices of birds
came long before
men were able to sing together in melody and please the ear.
Lucretius (94-55BC): De Rerum Natura
This exhibition was inspired by listening to the Dawn Chorus at Cheeseburn Grange in Northumberland – a choir of sixteen birds heard early one morning in May 2016. Together their songs, represented in the exhibition variously as digitally manipulated sonograms and musical transcriptions, form the basis of this show of screen prints, music, digital prints, relief sculpture, poetry and glass. The idea for Singing the World arose from a series of conversations between painter Siu Carter, musician and composer Bennett Hogg, artist and printmaker Alex Charrington, natural history sound recordist Geoff Sample and myself about music, art and bird song.
The installation gradually grew to encompass not only the Dawn Chorus, but also that liminal time between night and the dawning of a new day (represented by Ayako Tani’s glass chandelier in the Hayloft), as well as the more spacious and ‘laid-back’ Evening Chorus at Cheeseburn. Bennett Hogg’s musical piano and electroacoustic compositions developed accordingly as the discussions about the project progressed.
| Item Type: | Show/Exhibition |
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| Depositing User: | Mike Collier |
| URI: | https://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/6692 |
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