Disembodied Experience - I Am Sad Leyla

    

Hussein Chalayan
I Am Sad Leyla  (Üzgünüm Leyla) 
Lisson Gallery, Until 2 October 2010


Taking this art form, which has evolved through shifting environments,conquests,political reforms, geo political and cultural relations, and recontextualizing it in a gallery environment in London also with a new dress code... is another shift which alters and reframes the way in which this genre of music can be perceived.


The new installation explores music as a cultural form, creating a “disembodied experience” of a performance of a traditional Turkish folk composition by Sertab Erener, one of Turkey’s most successful female singers, accompanied by an Ottoman orchestra. The installation is made up of a nuanced combination of audio, film, sculpture and musical notation. Here Hussein examines the experience of music as layered, exploring both the sounds created by different instruments, and the diverse cultural influences on the composition, which include Persian poetry and Greek orthodox chanting. 
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