The concept behind Sky Orchestra was inspired by a research trip to Tunisia in 2002. I was staying in a small town called Douz, on the edge of the Sahara desert, when early one the morning my sleep was disturbed by the calling of minarets from different quarters of the town – first one, then another, and another.
31 Jan 2007 12:00
Luke Jerram
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The concept behind Sky Orchestra was inspired by a research trip to Tunisia in 2002. I was staying in a small town called Douz, on the edge of the Sahara desert, when early one the morning my sleep was disturbed by the calling of minarets from different quarters of the town – first one, then another, and another.
As the sound echoed throughout the empty sand-filled streets, layers of sound became visible. A perceptual map of the town seemed to open up in my head. This experience gave me the idea to make a piece of sculptural work that would be located on the edge of people’s sleep.
Luke Jerram is an established international artist. His sculptural practice is a poetic fusion of science, technology and art. His multidisciplinary practice fuses scientific methodology with creative play in the development of large-scale installations, live art projects and the making of small art gifts. Jerram’s work explores qualities of space and perception in extreme locations, from the freezing forests of Lapland to the sand dunes of the Sahara desert. Fuelled in part by his colour-blindness, Jerram’s work is an ongoing investigation of modes of experience and has resulted in a huge variety of projects dealing with auditory, visual and sensory perception.
