Played on the hour every hour during gallery opening times. Duration 35 minutes.
From 4 May, by the side of the River Nadder in Wiltshire as it flows towards Salisbury, we present an exhibition reflecting on our times.
“De Nadder / De Nada” is a soundscape installation and a celebration of no things, a consideration of personal presence set within the empty space of a tithe barn, the largest thatched building in the country. Surrounded by nothing but the building and the marks of time, a soundscape journeys you the length of the building on an object-free sensory encounter that speaks to the felt experience and to an awareness of the presence. Devoid of things, the soundscape offers an experience of place and time to take away.
With the imagination set running and fired by the senses that normally have to operate in the background, our sense of space inspired by sound will, we hope, free the mind to flow and run its own course of creativity, pausing perhaps for a moment to consider the lightness of no things. Over the course of the soundscape and time within the building, we hope that thoughts, impressions and connections to nature and the environment will well up from within and find their own expression in your thoughts that may be lasting, fleeting or continue unnoticed much like the river that runs nearby.
The soundscape is a commission by Messums Creative Foundation from Orlando Gough and Alastair Goolden and features vocals by the singer Melanie Pappenheim.
“I have always been fascinated by taking music into the landscape. I have made many pieces in rural and urban landscapes which ask the audience to consider the relationship of music and place. These pieces generally involve many performers, some amateur, some professional. Recently I have become interested in taking music into the landscape in more covert ways, using hidden speakers (and in one case speakers hidden in fabricated sheep), so that the music seems to emerge from the landscape. In my home-town Brighton, there is an annual festival of Open Houses where people show and sell artwork amongst everyday clutter. I have always wanted to create a totally empty Open House where the exhibits are the house itself and its sounds. Here, at Messums, I want to bring a river into the gallery, its sounds, its geography, its history, to make music from those sounds, to consider the flow of the river through space and through time, to create something which emerges from nothing and is constantly evolving.” – Orlando Gough
De Nadder: The Twilight Hours – an exclusive immersive experience
Thursday – Saturday, 6:00 – 7:00pm
Duration: approximately 45 minutes
Book and enjoy your own exclusive after hours experience of the immersive soundscape ‘De Nadder’ completely uninterrupted. Come alone, or bring along family and friends to share in the moment with you. The hour, and the building are yours.
There are only a limited number of bookings available for this experience.
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