The French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot conducts a sonic aviary
TextJohn-Paul Pryor
The French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot is a classically trained musician who creates environments that seek to challenge both our relationship to sound and the definition of what constitutes music. This month, he brings the intervention Lost At E Minor to London’s Barbican centre: cue a large white space filled with electric guitars played by a fluttering charm of post-rock-loving zebra finches. AnOther went along to find out what inspired the artist to create his feedback-drenched sonic aviary.
John-Paul Pryor is Arts & Culture Editor at Dazed Digital and writes for Dazed & Confused, TANK, Another and The Quietus His debut novel Spectacles will be published in 2010 by Seabrook Press
