The Brief

Soul Song An Exhibition by Marion Stern in collaboration with Quantum of Chaos Supported by Black Hole Studio

An amalgamation of the visual arts & music. A first of it’s kind playable exhibition will create an environment encouraging anyone to pick up the instruments and play - even if they are not musicians themselves - and have an immense impact on the creative process.

Thus it begins…

Marion’s vision is to create a space where musicians (artists in their own right) and non-musicians can come and play her art and in doing so create a whole new piece in the process.

Inviting impromptu sessions, encouraging creativity and collaboration, and the inspiration of new learning opportunities are the goals of this work.

Marion Stern’s intuitive art is inspired from nature, but also gleaned from music: two vast worlds of endless possibilities. Soul Song is a combination and entwining of Marion’s love of both. Unwanted, unloved instruments, both stringed and percussive, are brought back from abandonment and obscurity with care and attention, love and respect. Varying in tone and range her art gives them a new lease of life that together generates more expression, emotion and grace. These pieces are brought together in symphony, in a consonance of beauty and sound that is Soul Song, all the while augmenting many more vibrations, arrangements and patterns.

Quantum of Chaos is a new musical art project by David Pierce & David O’Byrne inspired by the DaDa-ist movement. Developed in the early 20th Century in reaction to World War I rejecting the logic, reason, and aestheticism of modern capitalist society - instead expressing nonsense, irrationality, and anti-bourgeois protest in their works. Over 100 years later the world is facing a similar scenario with large scale wars being fought, a modern capitalist society creating a housing and homelessness crisis throughout the western world, and now with the added pressure of climate change.

Live performances in collaboration with Marion Stern’s work give authorisation to the general public to participate with the ensemble in an interactive forum by using the instruments in the exhibition and breathing new life into the restored works, creating truly original sonic art pieces each and every time.

The audio created during performances will be picked up via microphones and fed into a computer program that will interpret the volume, frequency and other musical analytics to create visual forms and patterns, changing in accordance with the musical input. The program will project these unique animations onto a screen to turn the event into a visual/ audio experience.

To view more of Marion Stern’s work, please visit www.intuitiveart.me

To view more of Quantum of Chaos’ work, please visit www.blackholestudio.ie/quantumofchaos