Published on: February 19, 2009

United Visual Artists completed a project titled Chorus last week which was commisioned by Opera North in association with The Culture Company.

It is a multimedia installation with music composedby Mira Calix.

Here follows the description as sent by UVA:

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Commissioned to celebrate the re-opening of the Howard Assembly Room, ‘Chorus’ is simultaneously an intensely physical and yet ephemeral experience. An array of motor-assisted pendulums, suspended from the roof, swing through the space emitting light and sound.

As the dynamic system evolves, the rhythms revolve through chaos and return to unison, producing a hypnotic and seductive performance that heightens the viewer’s awareness of the space and their relationship with it.

‘Chorus’ is effectively a new kind of musical instrument, one in which the spatial location of each sound is a critical part of the composition of the piece.