David Cunningham
- installations
A piano
in a gallery, Carter Presents, London July - August 2006
The Listening Room, Camden Arts Centre June - July 2005
Exterior, Architectural Association, London April - May 2005
Interior, Kanazawa October 2004
The
Listening Room, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham September - November
2003
Listening to
the Architecture, Clerkenwell
Magistrates' Court, London August 2003
The Listening Room and Stairwell (untitled), ICC,
Tokyo July - September 2003
(English Japanese)
Where a
straight line meets a curve (with Karen Mirza and Brad Butler) March
2003
A position between
two curves, Tate Britain, London February - May
2003
The Listening
Room, The Connecting Principle, Newcastle October 2002
Listening to
the Architecture, Helsinki February 2001
The Listening
Room, Biennale of Sydney September - November 1998
Open Square,
Copenhagen June 1997
The Listening
Room, Chisenhale Gallery, London September 1994
... I divide my experience of the condition of music up into
these rough categories: there is music that is currently
possible to package and sell as a recording, as a commodity,
a variable which is contingent on fashion; and the other music
is what happens when you walk down the street and hear cars screeching,
children playing, things that are part of the dynamic of a situation,
which goes beyond the sonic in its organisational structure, which
you can't record and sell but you might try and record it for your own
pleasure - you maybe enjoy it but it's something that is there all the
time. I was hoping to make something of that experience. I remember coming
from a orchestra rehearsal and witnessing a car crash. Having had
my ears opened by the orchestra I was witness to an intensely musical
experience of metal on metal and little bits rattling on the road surface.
It taught me that I should be listening a bit more to all those collisions
of noises that we all live with...