Organ of Corti

Winner of PRS Foundation for Music's New Music Award 2010

10.00am - 5.00pm Saturday, 9 July 2011 - Sunday, 10 July 2011

Tebay Gorge

Price: FREE Book Tickets Online

Unreserved Seating

Sponsored by PRS for Music Foundation

PLEASE NOTE TICKETS ARE STILL AVAILABLE FOR SOME COACH SLOTS ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVED BASIS

Please call Christian Barnes on 07584 251448 for the latest availability.

Access to the site is limited and is by Park & Ride. Pick ups run every 30 mins from 10am - 4.30pm from:

Saturday 9 July - Westmorland Hotel Car Park, Tebay (CA10 3SB)

Sunday 10 July - St Jam'es Church/Tebay Social Club (CA10 3SP)

 

In a world saturated by sound 'The Organ of Corti' is a musical instrument that recycles the sound of road traffic. By using the acoustic principles of sonic crystals to accentuate or attenuate the frequencies within the sound, it enables listeners to hear musical structures within what many would consider noise.

The 'Organ of Corti' is conceived as an invitation to the visitor to 'listen to themselves listen', mediating our experience of sound in the landscape simply by offering us a frame through which to listen to it. Rather than offering us the opportunity to hear something new, the 'Organ of Corti' offers us the opportunity to hear something already familiar in a new way.

The 'Organ of Corti' proposes a radical departure from traditional conceptions of what constitutes music by framing existing sounds in the environment and inviting listeners to navigate their own way through the maze of possible outcomes. It reminds us that the phenomenon we are hearing is of course always changing, always new, and suggests a way of reconsidering of the act of listening itself.

The Organ of Corti is the winner of the PRSF New Music Award 2010 and with support from the Arts Council England will tour to four venues over the summer of 2011.

For more information on the site of the installation, see our Tebay Gorge venue page.

For more information on the science behind the Organ of Corti, view the YouTube videos below:

 

 

 

Artist Profiles

Frances Crow (architect)

Frances Crow is a qualified architect who has worked in practice since 1998. Following her training at Liverpool John Moore's University and the Bartlett, University College London, she worked for a number of national and international architects, both in London and Berlin. Between 2002-2007 she worked as a part-time senior lecturer at Plymouth University in the School of Architecture and the i-dat research group. She started her own design practice in 2007, which concentrates on ecological solutions for small-scale projects.

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David Prior (composer)

David Prior is a composer and sound artist with a particular interest in the relationship between sound and space.  His work spans compositions for acoustic instruments, live electronics and fixed media as well as radio programmes, sound installations and sound walks.  Since 2003 most of David's work in the area of sound art and exhibition sound design has been carried out through liminal, while his musical output is released under his own name or through his two collaborative music projects, Derailer (w

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