Susan Philipsz Surround Me
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
Commercial St Chiswell St Primrose St Chiswell St Spital Square Barbican Arts Centre Beech St Appold St Sun St St John St Barbican Finsbury St Carthusian St Silk St Ropemaker St Finsbury Pavement Carthusian St Wilson St Bishopsgate Moor Ln Brushfiled St South Pl New Union St W Smithfield Moorfields Eldon St Fore St Aldersgate St Aldersgate Moorgate Moorgate Finsbury Circus Bishopsgate Fore St Little Britain Museum Sun St Passage of London Liverpool St WEEP, O MINE EYES Finsbury Circus Hosier Ln Wood St MOORFIELDS Smithfield St London Wall London Wall Montague St HIGHWALK St Bartholomew’s Middlesex St Hospital London Wall Liverpool Street Toynbee St Toynbee Circus Pl Blomfield St New Broad St Bell Ln Giltspur St Wood St London Wall Bat Ln Holborn Viaduct Devonshire Square Bassishaw Highwalk Copthall Ave Wormwood St Noble St Bishopsgate Basinghall St Basinghall Old Broad St Camomile St Houndsditch Gresham St Guildhall THE SILVER SWAN Harrow Pl Bishop’s Ct St Martin’s Le Grand Montague St Old Bailey Newgate St TOKENHOUSE YARD Austin Friars Telegraph St Copthall Ave King’s Arms Yard Wood St Foster Ln Creechurch Ln LACHRIMAE Gresham St Basinghall St Bevis Marks Limeburner Ln St Paul’s Coleman St Bishopsgate Gutter Ln Ln Gutter Old Broad St Moorgate MILK STREET Tokenhouse Yard Thogmorton Ave St Mary Axe Throgmorton St Cheapside Lothbury Russia Row Warwick Ln Warwick Lawrence Ln Old Bailey Paternoster Square Milk St Trump St St Botolph St Mansell St Threadneedle St Dukes Pl Cheapside Bank of Aldgate Ludgate Hill Princes St Old Jewry England rd Ironmonger Ln ch Ya Bury St hur s C e l’ g Ludgate Hill Ln Bartholomew King St u n a P a t St Paul’s h Mitre St S C Pilgrim St Cathedral Poultry w e Threadneedle St Royal N Exchange Finch Ln Poultry Leadenhall St St Mary Cornhill Aldgate Watling St -le-Bow Queen St Alie St Bank Leadenhall St Minories Bread St NEW OYSTERS Cannon St Bow Ln Mansion House Change Alley CHANGE ALLEY Lombard St St Jewry Cannon St Aldgate Leadenhall Leadenhall Pl Lime St Market Fenchurch Ave India St Queen Victoria St Birchen Ln George Yard Lloyd’s Av St Mansell Whittington Av Black Friars Ln Friars Black New Bridge St Bridge New Queen St Gracechurch St St Billiter Abchurch Ln Queen Victoria St Highwalk with its open courts andWalbrook connecting Lombard St AN ARTANGEL COMMISSION Cannon St St Swithin’s Ln TOKENHOUSE YARD Cullum St Peter’s Hill Peter’s King William St Sherborne Ln Queen Victoria St passageways. The madrigal was said to be The northern end of Tokenhouse Yard close to Star Alley Mark Ln Nicholas Ln Fenchurch St Crutched Friars SUSAN PHILIPSZ an attempt to imitate the sound of angels’ King’s Arms Yard. Lime St Mansion Fenchurch St Portspoken St Huggin Hill House voices, one voice replacing the other as breath The Silver SwanClement’s, Orlando Ln Gibbons, 1612 Crosswall White LionWhite Hill was drawn, to convey the illusion of continuous Cannon Cannon St 1 minute 20 seconds, every 10 minutes, single SURROUND ME Street Dunster Ct singing. The rise and fall of the voices in Gracechurch St Upper Thames St channel sound installation Crutched Friars Goodman’s Yard Nicholas Ln Philpot Ln Blackfriars Underpass A SONG CYCLE FOR Queen St Minories Upper Thamesthe St madrigal suggests the ebb and flow of a tide Rood Ln Hart St the silver swan, who living had no note, Mincing Ln THE CITY OF LONDON that builds up to a crescendo, an ocean of tears when death approached, unlockedEastcheap her Pepys St Dowgate Hill 10am – 5pm saturdays and sundays only rising and falling on a concrete shore. Eastcheap Mark Ln Tower silent throat. Gateway until 2 januaryPaul’s Walk 2011 Great Tower St leaning her breastMonument upon the reedy King William St closed christmas day Pudding Ln Upper Thames St shore, Queen St Pl Savage Gardens Savage MILK STREET / RUSSIA ROW Monument St Botolph Ln thusArthur St sang her first and last, and sang Seething Ln Seething Tower surround me: a song cycle for the city St Mary At Hill At the junction of Milk Street and Russia Row. no more: Hill Idol Ln of london can be heard in six locations, which Fish St Hill Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares, John Dowland, 1604. “farewell, all joys! o death, come close Tower Hill Cousin Ln Lower Thames St St Dunstans Hill Byward St can be visited in any sequence. A full tour of all 36 minutes, continuous loop, seven channel sound mine eyes! Tower Hill Terrace Millennium Bridge Millennium locations takes around one hour. Swan Lnmore geese than swans now live, more Tower Hill Terrace Blackfriars Railway Bridge installation Lower Thames St fools thanKing William wise.” St Watermans Walk Thames Path lachrimae antiquae (old tears) Byward St In Daniel Defoe’s account of the plague MOORFIELDS HIGHWALK lachrimae antiquae novae (old tears renewed) in London he describes: PassingThames Path through Mansell St Accessible via the escalator adjacent to the Lower Thames St Southwark Bridge Rd Bankside Jetty lachrimae gementes (sighing tears) Tokenhouse Yard, in Lothbury, of a sudden a Jubilee Walkway Cannon Street Moorgate Station entrance on Moorfields, from lachrimae tristesRailway Bridge (sad tears) casement violently opened just over my head, Hopton St the Barbican via Willoughby Highwalk, or by Tower lachrimae coactae (forced tears) and a woman gave three frightful screeches, of London ramp from Fore Street/Moorfields. lachrimae amantis (a lover’s tears) and then cried, ‘Oh! death, death, death!” Thames Path Weep, O Mine Eyes, John Bennet, 1599 lachrimae verae (true tears) in a most inimitable tone, which struck me 1 minute 58 seconds, every 5 minutes, four channel with horror, and a chilliness in my very blood. Blackfriars Rd Blackfriars The uniform surfaces of the glass façades at the Holland St London Bridge Hopton St Hopton sound installation Stamford St junction of Milk Street and Russia Row create There was nobody to be seen in the whole weep, o mine eyes, and cease notPark St a series of visual and acoustic reflections. The street, neither did any other window open, for Park St Clink St alas, these your spring tides me thinks Lachrimae is a seven part instrumental piece people had no curiosity now in any case, nor Sumner St increase not Emerson St based upon the image of a single falling tear. All could anybody help one another. The lyrics are o when begin you seven Lachrimae have been interpreted and played a metaphor for the end of an era, the end of the Southwark St to swell so high thatSumner i may St drown me in Porter St Canvey St independently, with each of the seven notes madrigalTooley or St maybe the Elizabethan musical you? Park St Sumner St coming from its own individual speaker. The tradition. They could also symbolise the that i may drown me in you? Maiden Ln Borough High St Joiner St Gt Guilford St Guilford Gt speakers are arranged throughout the space and for end of capitalism or more general feelings of Montague Cl The setting for this four-part madrigal is the the most part the sound is abstract with the tune mourningApproach and loss. ilway London Ra Bridge Tower Bridge desolate, elevated landscape of Moorfields coming together in parts only to separate again. Duke St Hill Hayes Ln Commercial St Chiswell St Primrose St Chiswell St Spital Square Barbican Arts Centre Beech St Appold St Sun St St John St Barbican Finsbury St Carthusian St Silk St Ropemaker St Finsbury Pavement Carthusian St Wilson St Bishopsgate Moor Ln Brushfiled St South Pl New Union St W Smithfield Moorfields Eldon St Fore St Aldersgate St Aldersgate Moorgate Moorgate Finsbury Circus Bishopsgate Fore St Little Britain Museum Sun St Passage of London Liverpool St Finsbury Circus Hosier Ln Wood St Smithfield St London Wall London Wall Montague St St Bartholomew’s Middlesex St Hospital London Wall Liverpool Street Toynbee St Toynbee Circus Pl Blomfield St New Broad St Bell Ln Giltspur St Wood St London Wall Bat Ln Holborn Viaduct Devonshire Square Bassishaw Highwalk Copthall Ave Wormwood St Noble St Bishopsgate Basinghall St Basinghall Old Broad St Camomile St Houndsditch Gresham St Guildhall Harrow Pl Bishop’s Ct St Martin’s Le Grand Montague St Old Bailey Newgate St Austin Friars Telegraph St Copthall Ave King’s Arms Yard Wood St Foster Ln Creechurch Ln Gresham St Basinghall St Bevis Marks Limeburner Ln St Paul’s Coleman St Bishopsgate Gutter Ln Ln Gutter Old Broad St Moorgate Tokenhouse Yard Thogmorton Ave St Mary Axe Throgmorton St Cheapside Lothbury Russia Row Warwick Ln Warwick Lawrence Ln Old Bailey Paternoster Square Milk St Trump St St Botolph St Mansell St Threadneedle St Dukes Pl Cheapside Bank of Aldgate Ludgate Hill Princes St Old Jewry England rd Ironmonger Ln ch Ya Bury St hur s C e l’ g Ludgate Hill Ln Bartholomew King St u n a P a t St Paul’s h Mitre St S C Pilgrim St Cathedral Poultry w e Threadneedle St Royal N Exchange Finch Ln Poultry Leadenhall St St Mary Cornhill Aldgate Watling St -le-Bow Queen St Alie St Bank Leadenhall St Minories Bread St NEW OYSTERS Cannon St Bow Ln Mansion House Change Alley CHANGE ALLEY Lombard St St Jewry Cannon St Aldgate Leadenhall Leadenhall Pl Lime St Market Fenchurch Ave India St Queen Victoria St Birchen Ln George Yard Lloyd’s Av St Mansell Whittington Av Black Friars Ln Friars Black New Bridge St Bridge New Queen St Gracechurch St St Billiter Abchurch Ln Queen Victoria St Walbrook Lombard St Cannon St St Swithin’s Ln Cullum St Peter’s Hill Peter’s King William St Sherborne Ln Star Alley Mark Ln Queen Victoria St Nicholas Ln Fenchurch St Crutched Friars Lime St Mansion Fenchurch St Portspoken St Huggin Hill House Clement’s Ln OH MY LOVE Crosswall