Stormy Sea - Sound Piece for "Turner & The Elements" Exhibition @ Turner Contemporary, Margate
Between 28 January 2012 - 13 May 2012, the Turner Contemporary Gallery in Margate Kent ran an exhibitions of the artists JMW Turners Elemental watercolours painted during his time living in the local area. The gallery commissioned local sound artists to create audio interpretations of the paintings for the opening of the exhibition.
For my submission, i created a sound piece using the raw digital data from a high quality .BMP image of the painting "Stormy Sea" (1829) :
The raw data from the image was re-interpreted as audio information and layered to create washes of digital noise, which were then juxtaposed with field recordings of the sea on a stormy day from around the area that Turner lived and painted the original image.
The final piece was played in the gallery during the opening day of the exhibition, and has continued to be used during educational events at the Gallery during the Turner Exhibition.
