Ray Lee
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Chorus by Ray Lee
Commissioned by:
Simon Chatterton
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Award-winning artist and current British Composer of the Year, Ray Lee is an artist who makes music that moves. Born out of a fascination for the invisible forces that surround us, his spectacular sound art works have transfixed and delighted audiences the world over.
Ray’s latest piece, Chorus is a monumental installation of giant kinetic sculptures, a celestial choir of spinning sound machines. Towering above the audience, a series of giant metal tripods support rotating arms. At the end of each arm, loudspeakers emit precisely tuned musical pitches, singing out a siren call to all those present. Tiny lights create the effect of planets in motion, creating mesmerising orbits of colour. These intersecting lights trace rings above the heads of the audience, while the combined chorus of the spinning speakers creates a hypnotic, harmonious whole that is both uplifting and transfixing.
Chorus is produced and commission by Simon Chatterton and also commissioned by Newbury Corn Exchange, Brookes University and Oxford Contemporary Music with support from Arts Council England, PRS for Music Foundation and Greenham Common Trust.