CLIENT:
Rafael Lozano Hemmer

CONCEPT:
Rafael Lozano Hemmer

DESIGN D’OBJET ET CONCEPTION MECANIQUE:
Generique Design / Sebastien Dallaire, Jakob Lorenz et Rebecca Murdock

DESCRIPTION:
“Sphere Packing: Bach” is a 3m diameter sphere made out of aluminium and wood which supports an array of 1,128 loudspeakers each of which plays a different composition by Johann Sebastian Bach. The piece is designed to concentrate Bach’s entire musical production in a dense multi-channel structure that visitors can enter. At any given point, all compositions play-back simultaneously creating a polyvocal and complex sound environment focused in the centre of the sphere; from time to time the speakers are gradually silenced in waves to highlight one speaker playing a single composition.

LIEU:
Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal

DATE:
2018 et 2023

CREDIT PHOTO:
Antimodular

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