Resonance by Susie MacMurray

This is an exhibition at Fabrica, a deconsecrated church in the centre of Brighton. The sculpture is made of thousands of pieces of sheet music. Open until 26th August.

This is what Fabrica has to say about the exhibition...

"For this newly-commissioned work sculptor Susie MacMurray suspends thousands of musical manuscripts from the ceiling of Fabrica to create a fragile landscape that resonates with the history of the building.

The manuscripts have been assembled from a variety of sources – hymns that might have been sung at Holy Trinity when it was a church, other religious, choral and chamber works but also jazz and more recent popular music – all in different ways emphasising music as an ephemeral, shared and emotional experience.

Susie MacMurray is a classical musician turned visual artist. Her work encompasses drawing and sculpture and ranges in scale from the small and intimate to the architectural. Her engagement with materials and with the body is at the heart of her practice. She has completed several site-specific installations that have sought to immerse or overwhelm the viewer and describes these works as producing ‘a physical experience akin to the sensation a musician feels playing at the centre of an orchestra.’

‘One way to imagine music is as a complex intertwining landscape of sounds textures, volumes and rhythms. I am thinking about how the light in the space – itself a transient, moving and ever-changing thing – could help to describe an alternative musical landscape.’