Oliver Beer
Born in 1985, Oliver Beer is a British artist, filmmaker and winner of various awards, including the Saatchi Gallery’s ‘New Sensations’ prize, 2009. After studying music, he pursued a degree in Fine Art at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University, graduating with First Class Honours. He often works with actors. musicians and choirs to make films, photography and performances.
He has had solo and group exhibitions, made films and performed at venues ranging from the Centre Georges Pompidou and Modern Art Oxford to the Abbazia di Farfa in Rome. He recently had solo shows of video and photographic works at the IKON Gallery, Birmingham and MurmurART, 20 Hoxton Square, London.
The film on show at Galerie Iconoclastes is part of The Resonance Project, an ongoing series of works which transforms buildings into architectural instruments, using the human voice to force them to resound at their resonant frequencies. The series has led Beer to work in diverse architectural spaces, including the Victorian sewers of Brighton, a Renaissance monastery in Rome, and the transparent tunnels of the Pompidou Centre in Paris. In this film, shot in 2008 at the Abbazia di Farfa in Rome, a choir uses their voices to stimulate a Renaissance monastery to resound, weaving music from the natural frequencies of its internal architecture.
The choir says the Lord's Prayer in Italian inside the monastery, as their words are recorded. Then the recording of their words is played back to them on speakers, as they listen. This playback of their voices is itself being recorded, and then is played back, and the process is repeated, each recording being played back and recorded. The effect of this is to reveal the resonant frequencies of the room: with each re-recording, the sound of their speech is further distilled into a series of pure harmonics. The result is a rich and complex music, a harmonic progression which develops as the singers intuitively add their own harmonies in response to those of the building.
He has had solo and group exhibitions, made films and performed at venues ranging from the Centre Georges Pompidou and Modern Art Oxford to the Abbazia di Farfa in Rome. He recently had solo shows of video and photographic works at the IKON Gallery, Birmingham and MurmurART, 20 Hoxton Square, London.
The film on show at Galerie Iconoclastes is part of The Resonance Project, an ongoing series of works which transforms buildings into architectural instruments, using the human voice to force them to resound at their resonant frequencies. The series has led Beer to work in diverse architectural spaces, including the Victorian sewers of Brighton, a Renaissance monastery in Rome, and the transparent tunnels of the Pompidou Centre in Paris. In this film, shot in 2008 at the Abbazia di Farfa in Rome, a choir uses their voices to stimulate a Renaissance monastery to resound, weaving music from the natural frequencies of its internal architecture.
The choir says the Lord's Prayer in Italian inside the monastery, as their words are recorded. Then the recording of their words is played back to them on speakers, as they listen. This playback of their voices is itself being recorded, and then is played back, and the process is repeated, each recording being played back and recorded. The effect of this is to reveal the resonant frequencies of the room: with each re-recording, the sound of their speech is further distilled into a series of pure harmonics. The result is a rich and complex music, a harmonic progression which develops as the singers intuitively add their own harmonies in response to those of the building.
Oliver Beer
Né en 1985, Oliver Beer est un artiste et réalisateur britannique, lauréat de divers prix dont la Saatchi Gallery , 'New Sensations', 2009. Après une formation musicale, il a étudié aux Beaux-Arts de la Ruskin School of Fine Art de dessin et de l'Université d'Oxford dont il sorti avec les First Class Honours. Dans le cadre de la réalisation, de la photographie et de la performance, il collabore avec des acteurs, des musiciens et différents chœurs .
Il participé à des expositions personnelles et collectives, diffusé des films et donné des concerts au Centre Georges Pompidou, au Modern Art Oxford, et àl'Abbazia di Farfa de Rome. Il a récemment eu des expositions personnelles - vidéo et œuvres photographiques - à la Galerie IKON de Birmingham et àMurmurART, 20 Hoxton Square à Londres.
Les films présentés à la Galerie Iconoclastes font partie de Resonance Project, une série de pièces qui transforment l'espace et utilise la voix humaine pour les amener à leur propre fréquence de résonance. La série a conduit Oliver Beer dans divers espaces architecturaux : des égouts victoriens de Brighton à un monastère Renaissance de Rome en passant paret les tubes transparents du Centre Pompidou.
The Resonance Project : Abbazia di Farfa, Rome, 2008
Une chorale amène un monastère Renaissance à résonner grâce à son chant, au tissage d'emprunts aux fréquences naturelles de son architecture interne. Le chœur entonne la prière du Seigneur le Notre-Père en italien tandis que leurs voix sont enregistrées puis diffusées et enregistrer de nouveau. Ce tissage permet derévéler les fréquences de résonance de la salle et de faire apparaître des harmoniques pures. Les chanteurs associent alors leurs voix à celle du bâtiment.
version française: Marie Juliette Verga
Il participé à des expositions personnelles et collectives, diffusé des films et donné des concerts au Centre Georges Pompidou, au Modern Art Oxford, et àl'Abbazia di Farfa de Rome. Il a récemment eu des expositions personnelles - vidéo et œuvres photographiques - à la Galerie IKON de Birmingham et àMurmurART, 20 Hoxton Square à Londres.
Les films présentés à la Galerie Iconoclastes font partie de Resonance Project, une série de pièces qui transforment l'espace et utilise la voix humaine pour les amener à leur propre fréquence de résonance. La série a conduit Oliver Beer dans divers espaces architecturaux : des égouts victoriens de Brighton à un monastère Renaissance de Rome en passant paret les tubes transparents du Centre Pompidou.
The Resonance Project : Abbazia di Farfa, Rome, 2008
Une chorale amène un monastère Renaissance à résonner grâce à son chant, au tissage d'emprunts aux fréquences naturelles de son architecture interne. Le chœur entonne la prière du Seigneur le Notre-Père en italien tandis que leurs voix sont enregistrées puis diffusées et enregistrer de nouveau. Ce tissage permet derévéler les fréquences de résonance de la salle et de faire apparaître des harmoniques pures. Les chanteurs associent alors leurs voix à celle du bâtiment.
version française: Marie Juliette Verga
