We’re really excited to be working once again with electronic music pioneer Martyn Ware on a very different kind of sound installation.
The ‘Forest of Imagination’ will be taking place from 26th – 30th June at the Holburne Museum in Bath. We’re sponsoring and supplying Climate Series 2G speakers, with cables supplied by Chord Company, for the immersive ‘Empath Machine’ sound installation as part of an exhibit, titled; ‘Biodiversity Ring: A Million Small Acts’.
Monitor Audio Group has recently collaborated with the Sheffield-born musician and producer with the ‘Adventures in the Electroverse’ exhibition, utilising our SoundFrame speakers to play celebrity guest interviews from his podcast, Electronically Yours.
Martyn Ware
Born in Sheffield, Martyn Ware started his music career forming the English synth-pop band, The human League. In 1980 Ware and Human League band mate formed publishing company, ‘British Electric Foundation (B.E.F)’ and Heaven 17, new wave, electro-pop band who took the electronic scene with hits such as ‘Temptation; and ‘Let Me Go’.
Outside of his position in a multi-million record selling band, Martyn is a visiting professor at Queen Mary College, University of London. He also has an honorary Doctorate of Music at the University of Sheffield and the University of London.
Continuing with what he loves Martyn still performs, produces and is working on his autobiography.
Forest of Imagination
The ‘Forest of Imagination’ exhibition features a series of immersive installations and creative interventions, it captures the vibrant circle of biodiversity in and around the museum, its landscapes, and habitats. In addition, the exhibition highlights the building’s architecture, and how the ‘ring of life’ moves from it into the surrounding gardens and wider city landscape.
Empath Machine
Ware, in collaboration with 'the masters of high-frequency' Tim Wheater and Cherub Sanson, have created a hypnotic, immersive three-dimensional soundscape featuring an electronic compositional response to the soundworld of naturally resonant acoustic instruments. The contrast between the natural and electronic worlds embodies paradoxically both a warning and a hope for a more considered technologically enabled future and the inevitability of a new reality. Scan the QR code to experience the soundscape for yourself.
Holburne Museum’s ‘ring of life’ is created from multiple interventions. Some large, some small but all inspiring little steps to make it easier to address the climate and ecological emergencies.
You can find out more about the exhibition here.