Alice Sagar Final Major Project: Haroon Mirza

Height, scale and spacial awareness is something I will have to take into consideration when making my installation. Different heights inparticular, play a key role in Haroon Mirza's work. I like that his work has an aesthetic balance to it and is visually minimal.

Haroon Mirza creates sculptural soundscapes by drawing on an eclectic range of sources, from music to the speaking voice. Work can start with an object, a sound, an idea, or simply a point of interest says Mirza, who sees his role as that of a composer, bringing the disparate elements together as an installation that mixes sound, moving parts, light effects and video.

Relevant interviews:
Lisson Gallery talks to Haroon Mirza
TateShots: Haroon Mirza

In his first UK solo exhibition, Silver Lion Award winner of last year’s Venice Biennale, Haroon Mirza unfolds the map of an uncharted soundscape at once inviting and forbidding. His show /|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/| (the title being the "typographic representation of a sawtooth waveform" –that is to say, the representation of sound waves) consists of installations in which the auditory element heavily outweighs the visual. Each installation is pervaded by its own distinct mood, but all share a common denominator in the intensity of the experience and of the response each work elicits.