Installation view
(Picture: Marcus Leith)Pick up that empty mug perched next to your laptop on the kitchen table. Feels nice doesn’t it? Decent weight, you’ve always liked that pattern. But what does it sound like?
This modestly magical installation by the artist Oliver Beer starts with the perfectly true but also slightly mind-bending principle that every vessel, be it a casserole dish or a vase, kettle or cow-creamer, has a note – a musical note, which, unless the vessel is broken, will never change, even if it survives for centuries. Beer studies the intrinsic relationships between form and sound, and the music inherent in the material world, creating artworks that reveal the hidden acoustic properties of objects, bodies and architectural sites.
