Marvin Ayres’ Sacred Spaces.
The next date and location for Marvin Ayres’ Sacred Spaces project will be on Friday February 24th, 2012 in Winchester Cathedral.
Marvin Ayres’s latest project is Sacred Spaces. The idea behind Sacred Spaces is to use incongruous places for composition and performance and reawaken the inherent and/or dormant spirit residing in these unlikely locations. “Pilgrims in search of sonic beauty”. These include anything from derelict industrial sites to historical places of interest, (incorporating National Trust and English Heritage) and re appropriating them for musical purposes.
Sacred Spaces is an ongoing and evolving project. The instruments will be randomly tuned to compliment the environments and microphones will be used to pick up and record the full ambience of the spaces once excited by the cellos, violins and violas. One element which will link all the locations will be the same series of notes which will be assembled to create one collective piece composed from the overtones, sustains and reverberations recorded in each environment.
The intention is to return at a later date to the Cathedral and to stage and exhibit a 3D surround sound installation of the compositions that were inspired by, and recorded there. To accompany these journeys the project will be documented with a film diary.
Other locations planned or underway for “Sacred Spaces” are: Bretton Chapel in Yorkshire Sculpture Park, H.M.S Alliance submarine, Fleet Air Arm museum including Concorde, Tate art gallery store, Royal Observatory, The Atomic testing site at Orford Ness, and others.
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