Ray Lee: New Music Biennial

For:

Ring Out

Commissioned by:

Oxford Contemporary Music

Sound artist and composer Ray Lee, renowned for creating music for public places, will create an outdoor musical and visual spectacle composed for electronically generated bell sounds, each swinging from a giant metal tower. The composition builds a series of tonal pitches into a constantly evolving texture of pulsed tones created by the swinging of the bell-speakers by a team of local bell-ringers. The audience are able to walk around the space and experience the series of micro-melodies shifting and changing as the piece progresses.  This commission has also received support from Oxford Brookes University and 101 Outdoor Arts Creation Space and is also supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.