Chorus: a monumental installation of kinetic sound sculptures. Towering above the audience a series of giant metal tripods support rotating arms. At the end of each arm loudspeakers emit precisely tuned musical pitches creating a pulsating, harmonic drone, singing out a hypnotic siren call to all those present. Red lights at the end of the arms create the effect of a whirling swarm of fireflies, or of planets in motion, like mesmerising orbits of colour. These intersecting lights trace rings above the heads of the audience, while the combined chorus of the spinning speakers creates a cohesive harmonious whole, ‘a sticky flux’, that is both uplifting and transfixing. Chorus aims to bring a contemporary music and visual art spectacle to a very wide audience. Chorus was shortlisted for the 2014 BASCA British Composer of the Year award for sonic art. See the Guardian’s Richard Williams’ blog post about Chorus here: https://thebluemoment.com/tag/ray-lee/ read more: Performance/Composition: Chorus consists of a composed sequence of tones pitched from the Aeolian mode in concert A440. Over the period of the twenty to thirty minute composition (depending on the context) the twenty-eight discrete parts go through a series of changes in pitch allowing the work to develop from a series of pulses to held drones in various combinations of intervals to a resolution around the tonic. Touring and restaging: 2022 Festival of Sound, Basingstoke The Future Starts Here, Grimsby 2021 Birmingham Weekender Derby Feste SPILL, Ipswich Lumin Festival Crewe 2020 Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich and Docklands International Festival (Sept) Appetite, Stoke on Trent (Oct) 2019 Brief Encounter, Preston UK 2018 Lakes Alive Festival, Kendal Castle, UK Dimanche de la Canebière, Marseilles, France Cheriton Lights, Folkestone, Kent, UK 2017 Hong Kong International Arts Festival Georgetown Festival , Penang, Malaysia Connected Cities and World Culture Forum, Seoul, South Korea The Albany, Deptford (Circulate London Tour) Stratford Circus, London (Circulate London Tour) Millfield Theatre (Circulate London Tour) Bell Square, London (Circulate London Tour) 2016 Canary Wharf Winter Lights Festival, London ZAT, Montpelier France Freedom Festival, Hull Inside Out Festival, Dorset New Scientist Live, Excel Arena, London 2015 White Night Melbourne, Australia Sibiu International Theatre Festival, Romania Warsaw Autumn Festival of Contemporary Music In Time Festival, Coventry 2014 Future City, Salford Milton Keynes International Festival WOMAD, Charlton Park. UK National Theatre Outdoors 2013 Audiograft Oxford (scratch version) Town Square Newbury for Corn Exchange Newbury (premiere) Place de l’Opera, Lieux Public, Marseilles Winchester Hat Fair Henley Festival Bournemouth Arts Festival Constellation Festival Reading Festival of Light, Huddersfield 2012 Oxford Castle (scratch version) Supported by: Chorus was commissioned by Oxford Contemporary Music, and Newbury Corn Exchange in the UK. It was supported by the Sonic Arts Research Unit at Oxford Brookes University and the Arts Council of England. Credits: Tripod fabrication: Charlie Camm, Scenetec Ltd. Produced by Simon Chatterton Technicians: Martin West, Andy Reader, Edward Collins, Graham Elstone, Christian Weaver, Tony James, Rob Lee, Stavroula Kounadea