Susan Philipsz

Résumé du livre

War Damaged Musical Instruments features fourteen recordings of British and German brass and wind instruments damaged in conflicts over the last 200 years which play throughout the Duveen Gallery The notes recorded are based on the tones of the military bugle call 'The Last Post', but the tune is fragmented to such an extent that it is almost unrecognisable. The tune signalled to lost and wounded soldiers that it was safe to return to base and is used today as a final farewell in military funerals and Remembrance ceremonies. The artist has worked with the architecture of the space devising a sequence of sounds that travel the length of the Duveen galleries.