(for a collection of objects)
(2020)
Sound Installation / Score
Digital print, audio files
Dimensions variable
Mouth Piece (2020) is a grouping of seven songs composed from sounds and pitches of Pre-Columbian whistles, flutes, and ocarinas in LACMA’s Art of the Ancient Americas collection. Performed by Alethia Lozano, principal flutist of National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico, the songs were presented as beams of directionalized sound, introducing visitors to the exhibition spaces, telling the stories of other non-sounding objects in the exhibition, inviting the listener to align their own voice with the cumulative activity in the gallery. The score tells more information about the wind instruments, their pitches, and the artwork they speak for.
Commissioned by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
