The Pages performing arts experience is Ray Lee's sound installation Siren. This work incorporates installation (a work of art you can interact with) and performance art (sound and performance of the spinning sound mechanisms). Ray Lee, the creator of this work, is an artist, composer, and performer and is generally fascinated with, "the hidden world of electromagnetic radiation and in particular how sound can be used as evidence of invisible phenomena."
You will visit the Wexner Center and physically experience a unique sound art work by Ray Lee. Please look to the right side of the page to find out more about Ray Lee's work and "sound art" in general. There are dozens of links that give you information into this art form. Please be prepared to discuss and explore for the classroom visits in February.
I will be teaching this portion of the program so I am excited to work with each and every one of you with this particular work of art. I look forward to seeing you soon.
Dionne Custer
Wexner Center for the Arts
17 comments:
Ray Lee's Siren was a very interesting experience. Each step you took made you feel like you were in a different place because the variety of sound. Different noises made me recall a certain time or object that i had encountered before. The best part was when all of the lights went out and the only thing you could see were the little red lights on the end of the metal spinning rods.
I thought Ray Lee's Siren was very interesting and a new experience for me. I had never experienced something like that before. I thought it was cool how he brought different pitched sirens at different heights, speeds, and widths to produce his overall sound as you walked through out the room. You were hearing all different sorts of sounds in all different spots of the room. I also thought it was really cool when the lights went out completely and we saw the spinning rods look like red circles. It was interesting how Ray Lee was able to use common resources and materials to create his style of art.
I agree Megan. I really enjoyed when the lights were out as well. Somehow that moment intensified the experience and caused me to listen even more intently.
--Dionne
I really enjoyed Ray Lee's Siren. I had no idea what to expect going into it. I loved how light and sound were combined. The concept that the experience is different at every point in the room is really unique to sound art. I'm glad I got to have this experience.
I also liked that Ray Lee focused more on the experience of the sound versus the aesthetics of the experience. The installation was quite raw and somewhat simple. But the experience was layered and complex.
--Dionne
I wonder what some of you thought about the fact that Ray Lee did not tell the audience what to think or feel. Did you like that freedom to experience this piece in such an open way? Or did any of you struggle with that freedom?
--Dionne
Ray Lee's "Siren" was a most intriguing experience. I had never before seen, felt, or heard anything like "Siren" and all that it encompassed before and it was in a word, breathtaking. Each tone seemed to intertwine with the others in a way that was simultaneously unified and chaotic. Then the lights went dim, and my eyes went bright with curiosity. What spectacle can be so brilliant that little red lights can remind one of so many memories? Yet at the same time be so simple that one can be lost without a thought. "Sirens" is an experience that one cannot explain but something one can only feel. I don't think I am alone in saying I could feel it once again.
I thought Ray Lee's Siren was an interesting exhibit. Everywhere I moved around, the sound changed and morphed. In some places the sound was pulsing vibrantly and in others it just sounded very drones like. I felt the harmonics resonated in some parts of the exhibit and then there where places where all you heard was dissonance. The height of each tripod was set according to the pitch of the sound the sirens produced. Overall, I felt the trip to go see this was well worth the trip and I would love to see it again the next time it comes.
FT,
I like that you're thinking about the terminology as you try to articulate this experience:
drone
dissonance
pitch
harmonic
pulse
--Dionne
Wexner Center for the Arts
I think Ray Lee's Siren was a great experience. You can feel different sounds approaching every time you walk around. Different people listen different sounds and the performance left different people with different feelings. I really enjoy it. Especially, hen I move close to the sirens. I can clearly feel it vibrating and making interesting sounds. They are rotating with different speed and at different height. There're just so many impressive scenes that made this performance unforgettable to me.
I thought Ray Lee's siren was awsome. The creativity of the overal experience is what really made it so great. It was truly a new form of art and music. The way that the lights and sounds were incorperated together at all the perfect times really impressed me. The way the sound changed as I moved around reminded me of physics class and how sound waves change with distance.
I really enjoyed Ray Lee's Siren. I like that it isn't really classified as a show or a concert, but more as "an experience". I thought it was cool that we had no idea what we were really going into, and after seeing it I realized it was not what I expected at all. At first I thought the tones were entertaining alone, then they spun which I found interesting to the ear, and when the lights turned off I really thought it was neat. Lastly, I would have to agree with Alex P from UAHS that it is interesting that Ray Lee can create such a cool experience by using common materials.
Ray Lee's Sirens was an experience that i didn't expect. As I walked into the room i had no idea what was gonna happen next. Sirens showed me how one sound can be interpreted many different ways; by the position and distance you are towards the speaker, how fast it spun, Etc. Ray Lee's Sirens was very interesting to me.
Getting the opportunity to experience Ray Lee's unique style of art was a new form of art to me. They way I moved through the studio allowed me to hear a different sound every step I took. Once Ray turned off the lights, it made you feel like you were all alone in an airport listening to plane take off and land. This style of art was very appealing to me because I am such a audio learner. If I had the opportunity to see it again, I would definately go.
This was a really amazing experence. I thought they should have started off with the lights out. Cause then your only focus would have been on the sound. Otherwise the set up was very unique. I was fascinated how they took there time setting up each of the "machines". I think the slowness really introduced you into the different noises. Once I found my area, I did not want to leave. I didnt find any point to move because the sound was so pleasing to my ears. As far as the set up, i understand why he wanted to keep it very basic and not change anything. However, there could have been a deeper impact on the audience if there was more lights and more visuals. Overall good presentation, I would deffinitly go back if it werent so expensive.
I thought this experience was very interesting. The sounds were everywhere and i thought that it got better when the lights went off. Afterwards talking with the artist he said that there was no real point to his art. That people take from it whatever they want, and that it effects different people differently. I feel that this was pointless because I think every art piece has a different meaning. What I took from the art is what I get from jazz, which is a sense of peace. Overall I think I would go back if it didn't cost so much money.
I really enjoyed Ray Lee's Siren, it was a very unique experience. I really enjoyed it when they turned the light off and all we could see were the little red lights, it felt very relaxing in a way as we walked around listening to the unexpected sound coming from the all of the spinning rods.
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