Our SoundEscapes project helps to bring our world-class art museum’s collection to life. The collaboration between the Sainsbury Centre and Sound and Music, enters its second commission seeing ten more of the UK’s most exciting composers invited to create a new musical piece that can help capture the essence of a work of art in the Centre’s collection. With artworks spanning 6000 years up to the present day, and including all mediums, the collection is one of the finest in the UK and a celebration of the power of human creativity.
With these compositions, objects in the collection – both inside and outside – will be able to better tell their life stories and engage with audiences in a new and dynamic way – all through the power of music. All 20 compositions will be able to be heard across the world via the Sainsbury Centre website, via the Smartify app, and experienced physically in the museum next to the artworks which inspired them. Following our Living Art relaunch, there have been many ways for people to meet art in a more personal and emotional way in the museum.
It’s available in the Living Area and on Smartify. – Coming soon Coming soon Elif Nur Karlıdağ Elif Nur Karlıdağ. Photo by Derek Santini – Coming soon Delia Stevens Delia Stevens. Photo by Ellie Lucas – Coming soon NikNak NikNak.
Photo by EmObeng – Coming soon Luntraktors Lunatraktors. Photo by Hybrid Eyes – Coming soon Fintan O’Hare Fintan O’Hare. Photo by Fintan O’Hare — – – Listen now Listen Tamsin Elliott The Accordion Player, Ossip Zadkine Tamsin Elliot.
Photo by Kate Wolstenholme. – Listen t l k Baby Asleep, Jacob Epstein t l k. Photo by @tigr.vision.prod. – Listen Meduulla Ceremonial Bow-Stand, Democratic Republic of the Congo Maruvaashe Shongedza. Photo by Kate Wolstenholme. – Listen Marcus Joseph We Mask, Cote d’lvoire Marcus Joseph.
Photo by Kate Wolstenholme. – Listen Matthew Herbert feat Momoko Gill & Ella Kay Head of a Woman, Amedeo Modigliani Matthew Herbert. Photo by Manuel Vazquez. – Listen Ed Macfarlane Study (Imaginary Portrait of Pope Pius XII), Francis Bacon Ed Macfarlane. Photo by Ed Macfarlane. – Listen Melanie Wilson Old Maids, Leonora Carrington Melanie Wilson.
Photo by Tom Baker. – Listen Diego Diagonal Cut, Günther Uecker Diego Doran. Image supplied by Juno Doran. – Listen Eva Discs in Echelon, Version 2, Barbara Hepworth Eva Patterson. Photo by Eva Patterson.– – Listen Midori Komachi Usagi Kannon, Leiko Ikemura Midori Komachi.
Photo by Mayumi Hirata. –
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