Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller: Installations

The artists’ immersive multimedia sound installations utilize narrative musical composition to augment and challenge our perception.

Photograph of an installation of a chair in front of a keyboard, surrounded by multiple stacked speakers

Color photograph of a piano and chairs facing the piano in the middle of an old church

Color photograph of a group of people seated in a forest

Photograph of an installation of a slide projector, flanked by chairs, projecting a color landscape onto a screen

Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller: Installations

The artists’ immersive multimedia sound installations utilize narrative musical composition to augment and challenge our perception.

Photograph of an installation of a chair in front of a keyboard, surrounded by multiple stacked speakers — The Poetry Machine, 2017

interactive installation, words and voice by Leonard Cohen, dimensions variable

Color photograph of a piano and chairs facing the piano in the middle of an old church — Instrument of Troubled Dreams, 2018

interactive audio installation with ambisonic sound

Color photograph of a group of people seated in a forest — FOREST (for a thousand years…), 2012

audio installation, 28 minute loop

Photograph of an installation of a slide projector, flanked by chairs, projecting a color landscape onto a screen — Road Trip, 2004

computer controlled slide projector with audio, dimensions variable

Photograph of an installation of a chair in front of a keyboard, surrounded by multiple stacked speakers

Janet Cardiff & George Bures MillerThe Poetry Machine

2017

interactive installation, words and voice by Leonard Cohen, dimensions variable

Color photograph of a piano and chairs facing the piano in the middle of an old church

Janet Cardiff & George Bures MillerInstrument of Troubled Dreams

2018

interactive audio installation with ambisonic sound

Color photograph of a group of people seated in a forest

Janet Cardiff & George Bures MillerFOREST (for a thousand years…)

2012

audio installation, 28 minute loop

Photograph of an installation of a slide projector, flanked by chairs, projecting a color landscape onto a screen

Janet Cardiff & George Bures MillerRoad Trip

2004

computer controlled slide projector with audio, dimensions variable