Siren
By Ray Lee
Performed by Ray Lee and Harry Dawes.

HERE Arts Center, 145 6th Avenue (Between Spring and Broome, enter on Dominick)

$20 Tickets: here.org or 212-352-3101 (In person sales after 4pm on performance dates)

Photo credit: Steven Hicks

“I could have sat for hours hypnotized.” -Live Art Magazine

This ”choir of rotating sirens” creates an audio visual spectacle that is essentially a live experience. While you explore the space, the performers move about within the mass of swirling metal machinery, dodging and ducking the rapid movement of the rotating arms. The sound pulses past the listener with a Doppler-like effect, while the cluster of closely tuned oscillators creates a rich and pervasive sound world. The closeness of the tuning of the separate tones sets off a series of amazing overtones that evoke the sense of an ethereal choir.

Ray Lee is an artist, composer and performer whose work investigates the hidden world of electro-magnetic radiation and how sound can be used as evidence of invisible phenomena.

Running Time: 40 minutes

here.org

Supported by the British Council and the Oxford Brookes University