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Hannah Rickards, Thunder, infosheet, 2005
Thunder2005 Hannah Rickards goes to extraordinary lengths to recreate natural sounds. Previously she has recorded bird song, imitated it with her own voice and returned her singing to the the pitch of a bird. For Thunder, she recorded a thunderclap and then stretched the sound to last nearly eight minutes. She collaborated with com-poser David Murphy, who wrote a musical score that imitated this elongated sound and recorded it with an eight-piece orchestra. The resulting music was then compressed, returning the thunder-clap to its original length, transforming an storm into a piece of electronically-mixed music. In this exhibition, her work adds to the theatricality of the installation and is a fittingly ominous ?sound-track? to a show that ? like both her practice and Don Quijote?s foolish quest ? dabbles with the idea of failure.
Biography
Hannah Rickards
(London, England, 1979)
Hannah Rickards lives and works in London. Her work is centered on the translation of naturally occurring phenomena into sounds, texts and installations. Rickards' work shifts between different modes of perception and representation - including the linguistic, the visual, the natural and the artificial. She has had recent solo exhibitions at PawnShop, Los Angeles (2008); The Show Room, London (2007) and has been commissioned by Media Art, Bath (2005) among others. She has shown in recent group exhibitions at South London Gallery, London (2006); Camden Arts Centre, London (2007); Standard Gallery, Oslo (2006); and Johann Koenig, Berlin (2007). In 2006, Rickards’ work was shown at Witte de With as part of the group exhibition Don Quijote. She is the 2009 recipient of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women in conjunction with the Whitechapel Gallery, London.
