Sound Sculptor Set To Make A Big Noise In Belgium
3 August 2012
Senior Lecturer in Fine Art Caroline Locke's sound based work at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in West Bretton, Wakefield.
I am delighted that my work is to be permanently installed at Klankenbos, which has a global reputation for sound sculptures
”Caroline Locke,Senior Lecturer in Fine Art.
An artwork that enables you to 'see' sound waves is being installed in a unique 'Sound Forest' at a Belgian beauty spot, by a University of Derby expert.
The Singing Pools, created by University Senior Lecturer in Fine Art Caroline Locke, is currently being installed as a permanent work at Klankenbos or 'The Sound Forest'; a collection of art installations which use sounds and sonic technology, located in woodland at the Provinciaal Domein Dommelhof, at Neerpelt, near Antwerp.
Caroline's work is a mix of art and science, using specially designed motors to create vibrations which send ever changing wave patterns across the surface of pools in the forest to make a visual display. The artwork should be fully installed at Klankenbos by September 2012.
As well as installing the first part of her sculpture, Caroline has also co-ordinated a four-day residency program in which the University's Fine Art students and graduates visited the Belgian site to work with artists on fine art projects inspired by the Klankenbos collection.
Mark O'Hara, a second-year BA (Hons) Fine Art degree student, said: "This was a valuable and fantastic experience. The opportunity to transfer studio concepts and ideas into an outside public space has given us the confidence to believe in ourselves as artists and to share our work with others."
Caroline, also a Principal Researcher with the University's Digital and Material Arts Research Centre, added: "I am delighted that my work is to be permanently installed at Klankenbos, which has a global reputation for sound sculptures. It was great to share some of my time out there with students, which was a wonderful experience for us all.
"I have been working in the area of using sound to create visible patterns for more than ten years. It makes for highly interactive art forms, which really get the public thinking about art and the possibilities it offers."
Before Caroline's work opens to the public in Belgium, it can be seen much closer to home in the concourse of the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in West Bretton, Wakefield, until 30 September.
Caroline has recorded sounds from around the world for almost two decades. In her work Sound Inventory some of these processed sound samples are passed through water and captured, using digital stereomicroscopy, to create beautiful and intriguing images; each revealing a clear visual relationship with the original sound source. Each sound, place of recording, date and time is notated in an inventory chart.
The work follows the Sound Fountains collection - allowing the observer to also manipulate the technology involved to create their own 'sound patterns' - which was also exhibited at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in early July.
For further information about Caroline's work see website pages:www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/caroline-locke-sound-fountains and www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/caroline-locke-sound-inventory
For more information please contact Press & PR Officer Sean Kirby on 01332 591891 or 07876 476103, or email s.kirby@derby.ac.uk
