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composer
associate
professor of music, stanford university
Echoes of Light and Time
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sound installation - (2000)
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Commissioned by Chihuly Studios
and the City of Jerusalem for the millennium exhibition: Chihuly in the Light of Jerusalem
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Project description:
Dale Chihuly notes the
childlike fascination we
all have as light dances through glass. His installation at the Tower
of David Museum in Jerusalem was a dazzling display of the
interaction of sunlight and glass. For centuries Jerusalem was
widely
considered to be the center of the universe. The intense Mediterranean
sunlight and the spiritual and ancient stone posed an extraordinary
setting for
Chihuly's work.
Echoes of Light and Time
incorporated
the spirituality of the city and the interplay of glass and light in a
musical environment that sounded continuously throughout the 18 months
the exhibition was on display and was heard by over one and a half
million people.
I embedded heat and light
sensors in the pink glass chunks of Chihuly's central sculpture in the
exhibition, the Crystal
Mountain and turned the sculpture into a sonic sundial
whose sounds were controlled by the ever changing
light and shadows as the sun, the clouds and night lights played with
the glass. Thus the 'Echoes of Light' of the title. The 'Echoes of
Time' refers to the audio source material which comprised field
recordings of prayers and prayer-calls which I made in Jerusalem.
A CD compilation of
segments of Echoes of Light and Time
was published by Sony Classical Recordings. The recording is no longer
in print but can be purchased through Maor Music Publications.
Crystal Mountain, Dale Chihuly, Jerualem, 2000
Echoes of Light and Time
- copyright: Maor Music Publications (ASCAP). All Rights
Reserved.
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