The Baker Museum presents Storytelling Through Sound
A Conversation with Alexander Shelley and Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, artist Alexander Shelley, artistic and music director
Sound, with the way it surrounds you, can set the scene, evoke emotions, develop characters and drive stories forward. In Storytelling Through Sound, Artistic and Music Director Alexander Shelley and Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer engage in an insightful conversation about Lozano-Hemmer’s latest groundbreaking exhibition. This immersive project blends art, science, architecture and cutting-edge technology to explore complex narratives through Bach compositions, belligerent marches from national anthems around the world and a variety of soundscapes, offering a fresh perspective on how we perceive and experience sound.
All exhibition lecture tickets include same-day admission to The Baker Museum.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is a media artist who creates platforms for public participation by using robotic lights, digital fountains, computerized surveillance and telematic networks. Inspired by phantasmagoria, carnival and animatronics, his interactive works are “anti-monuments for people to self-represent.” He was the first artist to represent Mexico at the Venice Biennale in 2007. He has also shown at other art biennials such as Havana, Istanbul, Kochi, Liverpool, Melbourne, New Orleans, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney and Wuzhen. His works are in collections around the world such as MoMA, Guggenheim, TATE, Reina Sofía, Hirshhorn, MUAC and MONA. Major recent solo exhibitions include Unstable Presence, co-produced by the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal and SFMOMA; Listening Forest, installed over 120 acres of land at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; Common Measures at PACE Gallery, New York; and Translation Island, a 2-kilometer route that included 10 public artworks on Lulu Island, Abu Dhabi.
Alexander Shelley
Alexander Shelley
Sharon and Timothy Ubben Artistic and Music Director
A “natural communicator, both on and off the podium” (The Daily Telegraph), Alexander Shelley performs across six continents with the world’s finest orchestras and soloists. A passionate and articulate advocate for the role of music in society, he has spearheaded multiple award-winning and groundbreaking projects unlocking creativity in the next generation and bringing symphonic music to new audiences.
With a conducting technique described as “immaculate, everything crystal clear and a tool to his inborn musicality” (Yorkshire Post), Alexander is known for the precision and integrity of his interpretations, for his creative programming and for the breadth of his repertoire. He collaborates with artists such as Lang-Lang, Joshua Bell, Daniel Hope, Hélène Grimaud, Itzhak Perlman, Renée Fleming and Thomas Hampson alongside some of the finest orchestras of Europe, the Americas, Asia and Australasia.
As of January 2015, Alexander has served as principal associate conductor of London’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, with whom he curates an annual series of concerts at Cadogan Hall and tours both nationally and internationally. In September 2015, Alexander succeeded Pinchas Zukerman as music director of Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra, the youngest in its history.
In 2016, Alexander was awarded the ECHO prize for his second Deutsche Grammophon recording, Peter and the Wolf, and both the ECHO and Deutsche Grunderpreis in his capacity as artistic director of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen’s Zukunftslabor, a visionary project of grass-roots engagement, which uses music as a source for social cohesion and integration.
He has a wealth of experience conducting and presenting major open-air events; in Nuremberg alone, he has, over the course of nine years, hosted more than half a million people at the annual Klassik Open Air concerts — Europe’s largest classical music event.
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