Überorgan at Getty Center (2 of 2)

Überorgan by Tim Hawkinson

The following description comes from the sign explaining the exhibit at the Getty Center.

A massive construction of bus-size balloons and horns that seem to float under the central rotunda of the Getty Center's Entrance Hall. Überorgan is a contemporary work by Los Angeles-based artist Tim Hawkinson. It exemplifies Hawkinson's characteristic use of the ordinary to achieve the extraordinary, combining and recomposing common industrial materials and found musical phrase in a multisensory sculptural experience. This is the first time shown on the West Coast, and the Überorgan changes with every installation, and at the Getty it interacts with and responds to the pristine, disciplined architecture of the modernist building designed by Richard Meier.

The musical score of Überorgan consists of a two-hundred-fifty-foot long scroll of black dots and dashes encoding traditional hymns, pop songs, and improvisational tunes deciphered by light-sensitive switches incorporated into its player and scrambled to create an endless variety of compositions.

The Überorgan performs for five minutes every hour on the hour.

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