Installing Amazônia by Sebastião Salgado
19 Oct 2021
It was a real treat to work with the Science Museum London installing Jean Michel Jarre’s soundtrack for the stunning new Sebastião Salgado show Amazônia, which celebrates the indigenous peoples and varied landscapes of the Brazilian rainforest.
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For seven years, Salgado worked with twelve different indigenous communities to create this magnificent photography exhibition. The result is over 200 powerful black-and-white photographs that uncover Salgado’s perspective of the Amazon when the forest is approaching a crucial tipping point in the fight against climate change.
The exhibition was originally shown as part of an international tour that started at the Philharmonie in Paris and then moves on to the MAXXI in Rome, SESC in Sao Paulo and the Museum of Tomorrow in Rio de Janeiro.
We were brought on board for the London leg of the exhibition tour as audio system consultants. Our role was to ensure that the soundtrack translated correctly to Gallery 1 at the Science Museum London and this fell into two parts: working with the SM team to advise on speaker types and placement across the gallery; then installing the soundtrack, DSP configuration and system programming along with mixing and balancing on site.
It’s a truly breathtaking exhibition and it was an honour to meet Sebastião Salgado, it is open now until March 2022
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