\n<\/strong>Mixed Media Sound Installation<\/p>\n
Photo: Roland M\u00e4rz<\/p>\n With their largest sound installation to date, \u00bbThe Murder of Crows\u00ab,<\/em> the two Canadian artists Janet Cardiff und George Bures Miller continue the explorations they embarked on in the mid-1990s into the sculptural and physical attributes of sound. In the otherwise empty historical hall of the Hamburger Bahnhof, 98 loudspeakers will be installed. These emit sounds of voices, music and soundscapes generated by special stereophonic recording and replay techniques, creating a composition that has a direct physical impact on the listener. The special Ambisonic soundfield system generates a greatly intensified aural and emotional space. The installation is conceived as a theatre play or film whose images and narrative structures are created by sound alone. The piece is 30 minutes long.<\/p>\n The installation\u2019s title, \u00bbThe Murder of Crows\u00ab,<\/em> refers both to the English term for a flock of those birds and to the strange occurrence known as a \u2018crow funeral\u2019: when a crow dies, many other crows converge around the body and caw for over 24 hours, perhaps in lament. Another central reference is the etching \u00bbThe Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters\u00ab by Francisco de Goya from the series \u00bbThe Caprices\u00ab (Los Caprichos, 1799). From a megaphone speaker lying on a table at the centre of the installation comes the voice of Janet Cardiff, relating a sequence of thoughts and dreams; like Goya\u2019s sleeping man, she is a captive of her own nightmare visions. The sound piece, composed in collaboration with Freida Abtan, Tilman Ritter, and Titus Maderlechner, becomes a requiem for a world that has lost its bearings.<\/p>\n Janet Cardiff <\/strong>(*1957) and George Bures Miller<\/strong> (*1960) live and work in Berlin and in Grindrod, British Columbia, Canada. Their works have been exhibited in venues including the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; Museu d\u2019Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona; MAM Miami Art Museum; Stockholm Konsthall; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humleb\u00e6k; Kunsthaus Bregenz; Portikus, Frankfurt; Castello di Rivoli, Turin; P.S.1, New York; Mus\u00e9e d\u2019art contemporain de Montr\u00e9al, Montreal; MOCA, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and at the Venice Biennale.<\/p>\n The exhibition \u00bbThe Murder of Crows\u00ab is one in the series of \u00bbWorks of Music by Visual Artists\u00ab which has been presented since 1999 by Freunde Guter Musik Berlin e.V. in collaboration with Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof \u2013 Museum f\u00fcr Gegenwart \u2013 Berlin, and since 2002 also with MaerzMusik \u2013 Festival of Contemporary Music | Berliner Festspiele. The work was commissioned by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna for the Biennale of Sydney 2008, where it was first realized.<\/p>\n Curators:<\/strong> A presentation of Freunde Guter Musik Berlin e.V.\u00a0Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof \u2013 Museum f\u00fcr Gegenwart \u2013 Berlin\u00a0and Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna.\u00a0In collaboration with MaerzMusik 2009 | Berliner Festspiele.\u00a0Made possible by funding from Hauptstadtkulturfonds and Canada Council for the Arts.\u00a0With support from Bowers & Wilkins Speakers and Canadian Embassy, Berlin.\u00a0With thanks to Biennale of Sydney 2008, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin,\u00a0and Luhring Augustine, New York.<\/p>\n Further information: 14.03. – 17.05.2009 Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof Museum f\u00fcr Gegenwart \u2013 Berlin \/ Historical Hall The Murder of Crows (2008) Mixed Media Sound Installation Photo: Roland M\u00e4rz With their largest sound installation to date, \u00bbThe Murder of Crows\u00ab, the two Canadian artists Janet Cardiff und George Bures Miller continue the explorations they embarked on in the mid-1990s into the sculptural and physical attributes of sound. 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\nIngrid Buschmann, Freunde Guter Musik Berlin e.V.
\nGabriele Knapstein, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof<\/p>\n
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