Limited edition of 99 signed & numbered copies
Copperplate etching on paper
Published in 2015 by Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac. Hardcover folder binding; opening up to a copper plate etching of the sheet music.
Oliver Beer, a British composer and artist, produced Call to Sound as a site-specific performance art composition for presentation at Mimar Sinan’s Kılıç Ali Paşa Hamam in Tophane, Karaköy, Turkey.
This magnificent mosque was completed in 1580. The Ottoman building naturally resonates and amplifies sound in response to the human voice, a phenomenon that has remained unchanged since the day the architect Mimar Sinan conceived its form. Oliver Beer, in search of an appropriate artistic music venue, found the building’s geometry so perfectly regular, and its surfaces so dense and smooth, that it could be engaged as a massive and subtle musical instrument. Hence, his idea to create a vocal score, and to conduct a “live” performance, which was presented for the one and only time on September 2, 2015.
During the eight-minute performance, every portion of the space echoed musical notes determined by its dimensions and geometry. A select group of invited guests were invited to move through the Hamam during the composition, as the singers’ voices stimulated the resonant natural frequencies of the architecture.
In commemoration of this event, Beer then partnered with Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac to produce and publish a limited edition bound copperplate engraving of the musical score. To better visualize the echoing musical effects, Beer’s artwork depicts an overlapping and multiple exposure of the musical notes.
Dimension : 38 x 28 cm
Condition : Fine
Provenance : Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
