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Night of EU Cultural Institutes, Saturday 19 April
17.04.2008, 14:02
The newly-founded Croatian branch of the EU National Institutes of Culture, EUNIC Hrvatska, offers its first ever cultural event in partnership with the EU and within the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008.
Artists from Austria, Croatia, France, Germany, Italy, Slovenia and the UK will undertake short residences in Zagreb and then for one night only you can see the cultural fruits of the residences by touring each country's cultural offering.
The UK will be represented by Ray Lee who will have two performances of his visually compelling sound art project Siren at Mocvara, Trnjanski nasip bb (Tvornica Jedinstvo) at 1800-1840 and 1900-1940. Entrances is free for both performances.
Ray Lee is an artist, composer, and performer. His work investigates his fascination with the hidden world of electromagnetic radiation and in particular how sound can be used as evidence of invisible phenomena.
Siren is a whirling, spinning spectacle of mechanical movement, electronic sound and light. Twenty-nine large metal tripods, up to 3m tall, have rotating arms that spin around, powered by electric motors. Hand built electronic tone generators power loudspeakers at the end of each arm creating an extraordinary sonic texture of pulsing electronic drones. Small LED's at the end of the arms trace circles of light as the arms rapidly rotate creating a compelling visual image.
The audience, kept at a safe distance from the whirling arms by a safety barrier, are able to move freely about the space and experience different sonic and visual perspectives of the work. Meanwhile the performers move about within the mass of swirling metal machinery, operating their machines and tuning oscillators to change the musical composition while dodging and ducking the rapid movement of the rotating arms.
This ‘choir of rotating sirens' creates an audio visual spectacle that is essentially a live experience. Wherever you stand in the space it sounds different.
Check our website www.britishcouncil.org/croatia for full details of the programme.