DPA mics at Serpentine Gallery

UK - French sound designer and foley artist Nicolas Becker has used a quantity of DPA microphones for the Philippe Parreno exhibition at London's Serpentine Gallery. Parreno, an Algerian artist and film maker, has created a space in which a series of filmed events are projected in different galleries. Sound, which plays a major part in the exhibition, can be heard inside the gallery, as though the outside environment of Kensington Gardens and the surrounding streets is leaking in.

To facilitate this, Becker has positioned three DPA SMK4060 stereo mic kits, which each include a pair of 4060 omnidirectional miniature mics, around the space. As a film ends in one gallery, the blinds at the windows rise and the DPA mics transmit the sounds from outside into the gallery, while in the next space the blinds descend and the lights go off.

"I chose the 4060s because they provide incredibly good sound for the size," says Becker. "The size of the 4060s allowed them to be concealed in the trees around the Serpentine Gallery."

Becker also used his armoury of DPA mics to record the soundtracks for Parreno's four short films featured in the exhibition.

(Jim Evans)

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