THE GREAT ANIMAL ORCHESTRA
2016 © United Visual Artists
The 2016 exhibition The Great Animal Orchestra celebrates the work of musician, bio-acoustician and scientist Bernie Krause.
Krause has been recording animals for 45 years and has amassed a collection of more than 5,000 hours of sounds recordings of over 15,000 individual species in their natural habitats from all over the world.
The creative approach linked together the various exhibition content elements throughout the basement space — soundscapes, spectrograms and art works — into a cohesive, immersive experience that three-dimensionalises Krause’s recordings and suggests scenes from the natural world.
The spectrograms form an abstract landscape, an interpretation of the various global locations and times of day that Krause made the original recordings in a way that envelops the audience and encourages them to linger in the space.
Technical production
Creative and technical management of pre-production and installation of touring artwork over six years
Maintenance, reconfiguration and installation of Disguise project and system for each iteration
Technical rider preparation including exhibition layout, technical drawing and equipment specification
