At the initiative of the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, The Great Animal Orchestra was created by American musician and bioacoustician Bernie Krause and the London-based studio United Visual Artists (UVA) on the occasion of its eponymous exhibition in 2016. Traveling the world in search of the nonhuman origins of music, Bernie Krause has recorded and studied the secret and complex organization of animal vocalizations by collecting more than 5,000 hours of recordings of natural habitats. UVA imagined a visual translation of Bernie Krause’s soundscapes, allowing to listen to sounds and visualize them simultaneously in a three dimensional installation. In a movie sequence realized by Raymond Depardon and Claudine Nougaret, Bernie Krause explains more about his approach and how biodiversity has dramatically deteriorated in recent decades.
A meditative work on the necessity of preserving the beauty of the animal world.
Highlights
Credits
Bernie Krause and United Visual Artists
General Director:
Hervé Chandès
Director of Collections:
Grazia Quaroni
Curator of Collections:
Lauriane Gricourt
Director of Communications and Development:
Naïa Sore
Press Manager:
Matthieu Simonnet
Special thanks to:
Director of Cultural and Artistic Development, Cartier International:
Delphine Reffait
Director of Communications, Cartier Italy:
Viviana Caslini
Audiovisual Coordination:
Lee Sampson (UVA), Johan Lescure
Graphic Design:
Studio Folder
Italian Translation:
Alessandra Davini Tognoni
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March 1 – September 1 2019