I went to see the show by Christian Marclay at White Cube, Bermondsey, at the weekend. It’s good fun, especially if you catch one of the live (musical) performances being recorded onto vinyl by The Vinyl Factory: a visual/auditory mashup treat with a dash of nostalgia.
The show is first and foremost about the relationship between image and sound, and to explore this relationship, Marclay has played with synesthesia. In the first room, there is an immersive silent (or as I experienced it, a low level humming) musical composition called Surround Sounds, made from the animation of comic book onomatopoeic words.
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