John Wynne (sound artist)

[1] Wynne is best known for his series of installations involving large accumulations of cast-off speakers, beginning with Fallender ton für 207 lautsprecher boxen (Falling tone for 207 loudspeakers) in Berlin in 2004.

[2][3] In 2009, his Installation for 300 speakers, player piano and vacuum cleaner at the Beaconsfield Gallery in London was the first piece of sound art purchased by the Saatchi collection.

This work was sparked by his sound design and composition for a radical production of Racine’s Andromache with Scottish director Graham McLaren during Toronto’s Luminato Festival.

In adapting this experiment for the gallery context in London, Wynne explored our responses to sound in architectural spaces and to the acoustically porous boundaries between inside and outside.

Daniela Cascella commented in Frieze Magazine that "The critical shift in this installation is from apparent mimesis to a subtly unfolded artifice: permeable and open, prompting hesitation, the space created by Wynne does not display the purity of acoustic phenomena but points to the singular, changing engagement with sound that occurs at different times for different listeners".