Raphael Lozano-Hemmer (b.1967 Mexico) --- --- Listen to the World
Created with a laser-tomography scan, this sculpture physically represents the turbulent air released by a human voice uttering the sentence “Listen to the world”, an homage to the influential Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer (1933-2021), known for his revolutionary concept of the “soundscape.” The work also evokes the tradition of the speech scroll, an illustrative device like those used by Olmec, Mayan, Mixtec and other Pre-Columbina cultures to represent spoken words or song.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: The art of making the ephemeral tangible | National Gallery of Canada
Raphael Lozano-Hemmer (b.1967 Mexico) --- --- Listen to the World
Created with a laser-tomography scan, this sculpture physically represents the turbulent air released by a human voice uttering the sentence “Listen to the world”, an homage to the influential Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer (1933-2021), known for his revolutionary concept of the “soundscape.” The work also evokes the tradition of the speech scroll, an illustrative device like those used by Olmec, Mayan, Mixtec and other Pre-Columbina cultures to represent spoken words or song.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: The art of making the ephemeral tangible | National Gallery of Canada