Birds at the Curve

I went to a concert at the Barbican of a project Chloe had been working on with LSO Discovery (Brilliant).

While there, she urged me to visit the Curve Gallery on the ground floor where they have an installation by Celeste Boursier-Mougenot. It consists of a series of electric guitars and upturned cymbals on stands in a room with forty bullfinches in. Birdseed is placed on the instriments, and each one is attached to an amplifier. As you enter the room ( along with bullfinches) there is a delightful chirping from the birds, and a random melody accompanied by the occasional light cymbal punctuation as the birds pluck at strings which are all tuned to different notes, and land on the cymbals.

I found it all captivating, and could have spent hours in this serene enviroment.http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery

Well worth a visit!