Pass from this room to the Brown Foundation Gallery and you will be greeted by a real humanoid form. Or: Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University, 6100 Main “Sound waves: experimental strategies in art + music” The blend of art, sound and science is so immersive that it blurs the distinctions between these practice and study spaces. I imagine you could walk into this room 100 times and experience something different. They behave with a controlled chaos: vibrations set the sticks to click, offering a soft pulsation under a very structured music. Mozart plays in the background and mechanisms activate the gently articulated drumsticks at the head of each instrument. The piece is as engaged with the viewer as the viewer allows. They exist in the foreground and background, creating a wrapped environment with no vertical partitions along the site. The artist reversed over three dozen snare drums and hung them in the gallery space to create soft, beautiful shadows and sounds. Which should make Anri Sala’s “Last Resort” an intimidating door to walk through for “Soundwaves: Experimental Strategies in Art + Music” at the Moody Center for the Arts and its central gallery.īut the exhibition is not at all intimidating. Like a trumpet in church or a yelp in an art gallery, the isolated drum can have an invigorating effect. They just do what they are instructed to do. Percussion instruments are our musical heart. Photo: Mark Mulligan, Houston Chronicle/Staff PhotographerĪpologies to the wonderful drummers: imagine all the times you’ve been rudely greeted by drums, which so often generate the rhythm of marches and funerals for fairly obvious reasons. Original pieces are $2500, while prints run $450.The pieces This was Nearly Mine and Medicated Shield by Jamal Cyrus are part of the exhibition Soundwaves: Experimental Strategies in Art + Music at the Moody Center for the Arts, Friday, February 4, 2022, Rice University Houston. One other original and an additional 35 prints remain available. Almost immediately one of the two original pieces and 15 prints were sold. The project was announced on Wednesday morning, via Costello’s social media accounts. Elvis Costello was on that list and they approached him and he agreed to take part.” We gave a list of artists friendly to Stax and supportive of our efforts. “They came to Memphis and toured the museum. “Even before the pandemic, the Soundwaves folks were interested in getting involved with Stax,” said Tim Sampson, communications direction for the museum. The non-profit creates art inspired by sound waves from classic songs and enlists the artists (from Carly Simon to the Black Keys to Phil Collins) to sign prints which are sold to benefit charitable and educational organizations around the world. The project came about earlier this year, when former Stax Records head Al Bell connected the museum with representatives from the Austin, Texas-based Soundwaves Art Foundation.
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