MAYA RAMSAY
  • Wall of Sound (detail), graphite rubbings of woodchip wallpaper in Jimi Hendrix's London home, on manuscript paper, 2015
  • Work in progress on Wall of Sound in Jimi Hendrix's London home before the renovation, 2015
  • Wall Of Sound (detail), graphite rubbing of woodchip wallpaper in Jimi Hendrix's London home, on manuscript paper, 2015
  • Wall Of Sound, graphite rubbings of woodchip wallpaper in Jimi Hendrix's London home, on manuscript paper, 2015
  • Wall Of Sound (detail), graphite rubbing of woodchip wallpaper in Jimi Hendrix's London home, on manuscript paper, 2015
  • Wall Of Sound (detail), graphite rubbing of woodchip wallpaper in Jimi Hendrix's London home, on manuscript paper, 2015
  • Performance of Wall of Sound in Handel's rehearsal room at Handel House, part of London Jazz Festival, 2015
  • Performance of Wall of Sound in Jimi Hendrix's bedroom at the opening of Hendrix House, 2016
  • Performance of Wall of Sound at Southbank Centre, part of London Jazz Festival, 2016

Wall of Sound is a series of graphite rubbings of woodchip wallpaper in Jimi Hendrix’s London home at 23 Brook Street, made prior to the building's renovation into a museum. 

Hendrix’s home is next-door to where the composer Handel lived 200 years earlier and it is said that Hendrix saw visions of Handel in the walls of his flat. The wallpaper scores are composed of abstract marks created by graphite rubbings of the woodchip wallpaper on blank manuscript paper. The five sections, akin to a suite of music, were performed as part of the 2015 London Jazz festival at Handel House, as part of the 2016 London Jazz festival at the Southbank Centre and at the opening of the Hendrix House museum. An album of interpretations of the wallpaper scores is in progress with compositions by leading jazz musicians Calum Gourlay, Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian and Chris Montague. Footage of a track from the album being performed in Hendrix's bedroom can be seen below.

Wall of Sound won EMERGENCY 2016.

http://www.artlyst.com/articles/maya-ramsay-wall-of-sound

http://www.aestheticamagazine.com/review-of-emergency-201516-at-aspex-gallery-portsmouth/

https://www.a-n.co.uk/news/maya-ramsay-wins-aspex-gallerys-emergency-open

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