The creator of Cobar’s Sound Chapel, Sydney-based composer and sound artist Georges Lentz, was thrilled with the turn out of an estimated crowd of 170 on Satur-day afternoon for the chapel’s official open-ing.
Georges was also thrilled with how the whole Sound Chapel project, which was a collaboration with world-renowned Australian architect, Glenn Murcutt, has come together.
“It sounds like a cliché, but it is everything I had envisaged and more,” Georges told The Cobar Weekly.
He said while the finished product might not look exactly as what he first dreamed of almost 10 years ago, Georges said he understands that as an artwork, it needed to evolve.
“Artworks find their own way, they some-times tell you what they want and what they need rather than what you want,” Georges said.
“I think the whole artwork—the sound art and the architecture—really sing together.
“They form one unit, and that is what it’s meant to be.
“It’s an artwork, not a venue, with music in it, an artwork that consists of sound art, archi-tecture, Sharron Ohlsen’s beautiful black dot paintings in the windows, the poetry of Wil-liam Blake, and the grunge and grittiness of the tank that all comes together,” he said.
And while the timing of the official launch was planned around practicalities, Georges said the performance by The Noise String Quartet as the sun on Saturday was setting lent even more magic to the event.
“We will definitely do that again and, if its anything like the other day, April might be a really good time for our yearly festival,” Georges said.
The Sound Chapel was open from Wednes-day this week to visitors.
For more information contact the Cobar Visi-tors Information Centre.
