With '
Specification.Fifteen'
Richard Chartier and
Taylor Deupree created a 45-minute soundpiece which reveals itself as a sculpture whilst being listened to. Chartier and Deupree composed this piece in 2006 as a site-specific work for the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, on the occasion of an exhibition about the photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto. It is not hard to imagine how the sound engaged itself in a subtle and beautiful dialogue with Sugimoto’s Seascapes and panoramic images of unbroken ocean.
The work, however, very much stands for itself and keeps an intrinsic quality apart from the context it was originally created for. The textured sound subtly draws the listener into a spacious landscape where he is compelled to linger until the end of the piece unfolds. Musical ideas and sound elements are introduced and gracefully led offstage again. When the last tones fade away, one gets the impression of being left alone after having enjoyed an evening in very pleasurable company. (transmediale.07 jury statement)
