Towering above the audience a series of giant metal tripods support rotating arms.
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Chorus- Warsaw Contemporary Music Festival
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Chorus - Photo: Nathan Cox
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Chorus. photo: Roy Riley, Inside Out Dorset 2016
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Chorus. Photo: Farrows Creative
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Chorus. photo: Roy Riley, Inside Out Dorset 2016
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Siren. photo: Guido Mencari for Spill 2014
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Ethometric Museum Ashmolean 2013
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Congregation- Photo National Theatre Studio
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Ethometric Research Institute Photo Ray Lee
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Organ Player Photo Ray Lee
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Photo Ray Lee Ethometric Museum BAC London
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Lee and Dawes: Feedback dance 1994
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photo: Guido Mencari for Spill 2014
About Ray Lee
Ray Lee is an award-winning sound artist and composer. He creates spinning, whirling, and pendulous sound installations and performances that explore “circles of ether,” the invisible forces that surround us. His immersive and mesmerising works such as the world-wide hit Siren, Ethometric Museum and his monumental outdoor work Chorus aim to make contemporary music accessible and engaging for a wide audience. Siren toured the world with significant British Council support. Ethometric Museum won him the 2012 British Composer of the Year for Sonic Art. Force Field was awarded an honorary mention in the 2008 Prix Ars Electronica. He is a Professor of Sound Art at Oxford Brookes University and an associate artist of OCM (Oxford Contemporary Music).
Forthcoming Events:
RAY LEE: RING OUT
PART OF PRS FOUNDATION'S NEW MUSIC BIENNIAL
Zebedee's Yard, Hull
Friday 30 June – 11am, 4pm, 10pm
Saturday 1 July – 11am, 4pm, 10pm
Price: Free
Sound artist and composer Ray Lee, renowned for creating music for public places, will create an outdoor musical and visual spectacle composed for electronically generated bell sounds, each swinging from a giant metal tower. The composition builds a series of tonal pitches into a constantly evolving texture of pulsed tones created by the swinging of the bell-speakers by a team of local bell-ringers. The audience are able to walk around the space and experience the series of micro-melodies shifting and changing as the piece progresses.
Projects
Appearing to be artefacts from a hitherto unknown branch of science, Ethometric Instruments are curious, fascinating relics from a bygone age.
Ethometric Museum
Siren is a spectacular performance piece that takes place within an installation of large sound sculptures; metal tripods with rotating arms that emit electronic drones.