Commissioned Japanese sound artist Ikue Mori to produce an original composition for a program of silent films by surrealist filmmaker Maya Derren.
The newly commissioned score was performed live in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall to augment a screening of Derren’s work. The result was a hauntingly dark and fragile sonic ambience that bound the individual films into a cohesive sequence.
The films were subsequently re-mastered with the new soundtrack to tour internationally.
Curated in collaboration with Stuart Comer as part of The Long Weekend Festival, Tate Modern Turbine Hall, London 2007
Commissioned a new work by sound artist Sarah Washington.
This commission took form as an eight-part series of three-minute episodes exploring the roots of language, communication and consciousness. Working with translators, speaking in an array of tongues from Ancient Hebrew to contemporary Mandarin, the artist recorded different interpretations of the biblical story, The Tower of Babel. These recordings were then cut up and manipulated, to form a discombobulated sequence that challenged understandings of structured articulation and our relationship to meaning.
Broadcast on Resonance FM, London 2007
Co-curated a screening of silent films by surrealist filmmaker Maya Derren, accompanied by a specially commissioned score performed live by sound artist Ikue Mori.
Presenting a selection of short films produced in the mid 1940s, the program highlighted how Derren’s oeuvre departed from previously established idioms by adopting a highly kinetic cinematic language and a deeply embodied exploration of the subconscious.
The films were subsequently re-mastered with the new soundtrack to tour internationally.
Curated in collaboration with Stuart Comer as part of The Long Weekend Festival, Tate Modern Turbine Hall, London 2007