David Ward
Works available
David Ward, Orinoco Water Colour, 2007, (Private collection)
Biography
DAVID WARD
ORINOCO ON AIR
Following David Ward's successful exhibition Orinoco with Richard Deacon at the
New Art Centre in 2007, we are pleased to announce the issue of a limited edition signed CD, Orinoco on Air.
The CD is made up of three compositions; Orinoco on Air is composed of the names of 200 rivers inspired by the appearance of river names in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. This recording was made with the artists Liadin Cooke and Daphne Wright following a live reading by them in the performance Orinoco / Roche by David Ward at the New Art Centre, Roche Court in June 2007. The soundwork Orinoco on Air was first presented together with Richard Deacon's sculpture Orinoco in the gallery at the New Art Centre for the exhibition Orinoco: Richard Deacon & David Ward in September 2007.
Orinoco Boatcutters was installed in the stone summer-house at Roche Court in the same exhibition. It is the sound of two Yek'wana boatmen working at opposite ends of a tree trunk, over 60 feet long, carving a traditional boat known as a bongo.
Orinoco Night Frogs is the song of nocturnal rainforest frogs. These are both direct recordings made by David Ward on the Orinoco River in the Amazonas Region of Southern Venezuela in 1995.
Signed, limited edition of 100 copies recorded on archive quality discs
Sound design for Orinoco on Air: Andy Pink © David Ward 2007
Price: £40 + £1.38 p&p.
To order your copy of this special limited edition signed CD, please contact Victoria Avery at the New Art Centre. Telephone 01980 862244 or victoria@sculpture.uk.com
David Ward has exhibited internationally. He has been Visiting Artist at Harvard University, Artist in Residence at King's College, Cambridge and a research fellow at the Henry Moore Institute. His works in relation to architecture and performance include Chorus, Royal Festival Hall; Weight & Measure, Sir John Soane's Museum; Bird Song, with Siobhan Davies Dance, Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House; Nocturne, City of London and he exhibited in Filmperformance at Modern Art Oxford. In 2007 his exhibition Orinoco with Richard Deacon, was held in the Orangery and Artists' House at the New Art Centre.