Towering above the audience a series of giant metal tripods support rotating arms.
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Congregation
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Chorus. photo: Roy Riley, Inside Out Dorset 2016
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Congregation - image: Norwich and Norfolk Festival
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Congregation- Photo National Theatre Studio
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Chorus - Photo: Nathan Cox
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Ring Out - Hull Photo Lee Price
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Chorus- Warsaw Contemporary Music Festival
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Chorus. Photo: Farrows Creative
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Chorus. photo: Roy Riley, Inside Out Dorset 2016
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Siren. photo: Guido Mencari for Spill 2014
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Congregation - image: Norwich and Norfolk Festival
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Ethometric Museum Ashmolean 2013
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Congregation
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Ethometric Research Institute Photo Ray Lee
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Congregation - image: Norwich and Norfolk Festival
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Photo Ray Lee Ethometric Museum BAC London
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Ring Out - Hull Photo Lee Price
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photo: Guido Mencari for Spill 2014
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Congregation
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Ring Out
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Chorus
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Congregation: Freedom Festival Hull
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Congregation Freedom Festival Hull
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Congregation
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Congregation
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Chorus at Hong Kong International Festival 2017
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Chorus: Hong Kong photo Ray Lee
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Siren
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Siren: Zagreb 2008
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Ring Out 'Ringers', South Bank 2017
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Ring Out 2017 Photo Lee Price
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Congregation: Photo Norfolk and Norwich festival 2019
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Congregation - Hat Fair 2019
About Ray Lee
A kind of musical H.G.Wells - Ivan Hewitt BBC Radio 3
Ray Lee is an award-winning sound artist, theatre maker and composer. He creates spinning, whirling, and pendulous sound installations and performances that explore “circles of ether,” the invisible forces that surround us.
His immersive and mesmerising works such as the world-wide hit Siren, Ethometric Museum and his monumental outdoor works Chorus and Ring Out are a unique synthesis of art forms, both accessible and engaging for a wide audience.
His new outdoor work Congregation, for one hundred interactive sonic spheres, was funded by Without Walls and toured throughout the UK in 2019. His music-theatre work Ethometric Museum won him the 2012 British Composer of the Year for Sonic Art. Siren toured the world with significant British Council support. Force Field was awarded an honorary mention in the 2008 Prix Ars Electronica. He is a Professor of Sound Art at Oxford Brookes University and an associate artist of OCM (Oxford Contemporary Music).
What's new?:
Like everyone else in the arts sector all my projects up to the end of June have been cancelled or postponed. However, La Strada in Austria are still keen to go ahead in early September as are Dublin Fringe and the rescheduled Wye Valley Festival for later in September this year. My thoughts are with all the arts professionals (as well as everyone else!) who are really struggling at this difficult time. Let's hope that at some stage, who knows when, we will find a way back to sharing our work with each other and the public in real life....This is a useful site for links to resources to help artists: https://ukcovid19freelanceartistresource.wordpress.com/
Projects
Congregation is a participatory outdoor sound art performance piece. Interactive Sonic Spheres guide the participants to a secret location by using sound alone.
Congregation
Appearing to be artefacts from a hitherto unknown branch of science, Ethometric Instruments are curious, fascinating relics from a bygone age.
Ethometric Museum
A series of giant towers hold suspended bell-like speaker cones. A team of 'bell-ringers' make the cones swing higher and higher until each arm soars up over the heads of the audience ringing forth with a peel of electronic tones.
Ring Out
Siren is a spectacular performance piece that takes place within an installation of large sound sculptures; metal tripods with rotating arms that emit electronic drones.