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A production team including members of Raw Canvas, worked together to create a sound tour of Tate Modern’s new Collection displays. They wanted to create a different kind of audio tour as a backdrop for looking at 16 selected art works. The tour produced offers a combination of interviews, sound and music as an alternative way of looking to provoke the viewer to investigate other ways to read that artwork.

MP3 files can be downloaded to your player for listening as you walk through the galleries, or you may choose to listen as you explore this website featuring images of some of the works.

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Background to the project

Level 3: Matter and Gesture

Alberto Giacometti - Four Figurines on a Base

Alberto Giacometti, Four Figurines on a Base

Speakers:
Indie vaudeville rockers The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players (Jason Trachtenburg, Tina Piña Trachtenburg and Rachel Piña Trachtenburg) talk art and music and the magic of numbers

Music:
Do You Know What I Mean? From Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players: Adventures in Middle America, Volume II - with the kind permission of Jason Trachtenburg.

Link:
www.slideshowplayers.com

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Asger Jorn - Letter to My Son

Asger Jorn - Letter to My Son

Speakers:
Young parents – Charlotte, Sausen, and Jodian, from Hackney Young Families Support Service –on sheep, monster-burgers and flying jellyfish in this picture.

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Jean Dubuffet - The Busy Life

Jean Dubuffet - The Busy Life

Speakers:
Prior Weston School art group on why they see everything from flying lemons and rubber gloves to the end of the world in this picture!

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Clyfford Still - 1953

Image not available due to copyright restrictions

Sound:
I met the Tate tea trolley in the lift
Take a trip with Tate tea supremo Bhupindra Goram.

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Mark Rothko - The Seagram Murals

Mark Rothko - The Seagram Murals

Mark Rothko - The Seagram Murals

Sound:
5by4by3by2byOne By Amit Sharma

Info:
Amit states: 'I tried to reject doing the obvious. The obvious (for me) would be; a dark, brooding, soundscape that reflected the sombre tone of the paintings. But I felt that it may cause the room (and the viewers' interpretation of it) to become a bit one-dimensional. The only way I could get my head around it would be to write something that wouldn't fit. Something that didn't make sense, therefore giving space for the viewer's own thoughts to exist as well. I didn't want to be intrustive, I wanted to make something that gently peeled away the world around and left the viewer alone with Rothko's paintings.'

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Tacita Dean - The Roaring Forties:
Seven Boards in Seven Days

Tacita Dea, The Roaring Forties: Seven Boards in Seven Days

Speaker:
Thames River Pilot Captain John Freestone, on what it's like to be 150 feet up in the air like the sailors in this picture

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Henri Matisse - The Snail

>Henri Matisse - The Snail

Speaker:
Prior Weston School art group talk art and slime...

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Marlene Dumas - Lucy and Stern

Marlene Dumas, Stern, 2004

Speakers:
Abigail, Amy and Helen from Raw Canvas on beauty, repulsion, death and green goo

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Level 3: Poetry and Dream

Giorgio de Chirico - The Uncertainty of the Poet

Giorgio di Chirico - The Uncertainty of the Poet

Speaker:
Artist Doug Fishbone on art, bananas and international trade

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Joan Miro - A Star Caresses the Breast of
a Negress (Painting Poem)

Joan Miro - A Star Caresses the Breast of a Negress (Painting Poem)

Speaker:
Musician Devendra Banhart on why he thinks this painting is so perfectly in tune

Music:
Now That I Know, from Cripple Crow, by kind permission of XL Refordings Ltd, Beggars Banquet, and Chrysalis Music Ltd

Link:
www.cripplecrow.com

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Marcel Duchamp - From or by Marcel Duchamp or Rose Sélavy (The Box in a Valise)

Marcel Duchamp - From or by Marcel Duchamp or Rose Sélavy (The Box in a Valise)

Speaker:
Writer and senior lecturer Maria Fusco on Marcel Duchamp, cross-dressing and why he's the big daddy of conceptual art.

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Paul Klee - A Young Lady's Adventure

Paul Klee - A Young Lady's Adventure

Speakers:
Tate visitors on their own adventures - 80 years after Klee's young lady stepped out into the world

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Christian Schad - Agosta the Pigeon-Chested Man

Christian Schad, Agosta the Pigeon-Chested Man

Speaker:
Lyricist and mc Pase on beauty, colonialism and afro hair

Link:
More info on Pase at the BBC website

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Thomas Schütte - Schütte room

Thomas Sch¨tte - Schutte room

Speaker:
Satirist Mark Thomas on art, politics and corruption - and how Schütte's work challenges us to make a difference.

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Cindy Sherman - Untitled Film Still #48

Cindy Sherman - Untitled Film Still #48

Speaker:
Writer and curator Francesca Gavin (writes for Marmalade, Intersection, Dazed & Confused) on Cindy Sherman, daydreams and dressing up

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Juan Muñoz - Towards the Corner

Juan Munoz - Towards the Corner

Speakers:
Tessa, Jeanie, Joan and John from the inter-generational theatre group Third Thought, try to work out what these men are doing.

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