“Fortunately, the sound I uttered was returned as a wave of polyphonic choral harmonies, my mediocre singing voice indiscernible from a synthetic mass of others.”
– Writer and curator
Tendai John Mutambu, describing what they heard after singing into a microphone for
The Oratory (2024). Installed at London’s
Serpentine Galleries,
creative duo Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst’s audio piece transforms a lone voice into a dazzling chorus as a homage to a painting by Lebanese-American artist
Kahlil Gibra.
