"Market Symphony" is a new audio installation at the
National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C. The exhibition layers
sound from a market in Lagos, Nigeria. The speakers are installed on
enamelware trays which are often used in markets.
Courtesy of the National Museum of African Art
NPR.org: Artist Emeka Ogboh was commissioned by the museum to create a site-specific audio installation.
Adolphus Opara/Smithsonian National Museum of African Art
National Public Radio
January 31, 2016
To people who live in big cities, the sound of honking, the whir of
traffic, the howl of street vendors and the clang of construction can
just be background noise.
But for Nigerian sound and video artist Emeka Ogboh, the city is his palette — his symphony of sound. And his compositions can whisk the listener to another time and place.
"There are stories in the soundscape," he says. "There are stories
from the city. You can tell more about the city from just listening to
the soundscape. And that's what happened. I started finding it really
interesting."
Ogboh recorded hours of sounds to pull a listener
through the song of the bustling Balogun open-air market in the
Nigerian megacity of Lagos.
NPR's Michel Martin spoke with Ogboh and took a tour of his new exhibition, "Market Symphony," at the National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C. It's the first time the museum has featured a sound art exhibition, and it opens later this week.
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