The sonic visions of Oliver Beer An interview with the artist . (This link opens in a new tab).

By Arjun Sajip 

For the last 18 years – throughout his career, in other words – the British artist Oliver Beer has been highlighting the harmony between music and physical spaces. ‘Any space that’s empty and reflects sound has a musical resonance,’ he tells me as we speak at his home in Lambeth. ‘If you sing a particular note, you can tease out the resonance in such a way that you can no longer hear your own voice. It’s very elemental and very simple. But what’s crazy is that even though it’s universal, and can be tried anywhere in the world, architects and engineers don’t learn about it. They know the resonance frequency a bridge needs to stop it from breaking, but they aren’t taught that every time they build a room, they’re building a musical note or a series of musical notes.’