Hayward Project Space : Euan MacDonald

14 Jan-14 Feb 2012

Overview

Euan Macdonald - Open-Tuning features the recent video 9000 Pieces (2010), which focuses on a piano-testing machine in a Chinese musical instrument factory (the title refers to the number of separate parts in a piano). An exploration of the different meanings of noise, 9,000 Pieces is a sonic tour-de-force that plays with the way we make sense of the world. The show also includes a transcribed 'score' of the testing machine's cacophonous performance. In addition, Open-Tuning features Macdonald's Brakestand (1999), a video loop depicting a 1970s BMW spinning its wheels and burning rubber - the car furiously going nowhere fast while producing a squealing roar that conjures extreme speed.