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Title

Jean, An elephant watching the scene with a sense of wonder

Date
2016

Dimensions
188.2 × 104.9 × 162.1 cm 74 1/8 × 41 1/4 × 63 7/8 in. (Including Stand)

Material

Polyurethane foam, white paint, nylon, powder-coated metal stand

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Title

Jean, An elephant watching the scene with a sense of wonder

Date
2016

Dimensions
188.2 × 104.9 × 162.1 cm 74 1/8 × 41 1/4 × 63 7/8 in. (Including Stand)

Material

Polyurethane foam, white paint, nylon, powder-coated metal stand

(Sound)

The death throes of a matriarch elephant trigger an evolving chorus of voices around her, moving through sadness, melancholy, nostalgia, joy, love and amazement - as if her passage towards death were awakening new forms of emotion, language and consciousness in the group.

00 : 00 The Death of Echo, 2016 00 : 00

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Credits

Sound

Voice synthesis, sound design, orchestration: Pierre Lanchantin (Machine Intelligence Laboratory, University of Cambridge); Voices: Gideon Wagner and Ghizela Rowe