TATE MODERN
This is the tenth in a series of original music tracks written about artworks at Tate Modern.
Tate Modern invited Lethal Bizzle to walk around the gallery and find a work of art that would inspire him to write a track.
He chose Cristina Iglesias's Pavilion Suspended in a Room 1. He said "the concept of the track is me getting away from the world - my hideaway. When I first saw this piece, it was a really soothing atmosphere and it felt safe and enclosed and it inspired me to make music." The result is his track, My Hide Away.
You can listen to it in the gallery or here online.
As well as his own solo album deal, Lethal Bizzle has set up his own record label with national distribution behind it, to which he's signed 15 young rappers from underprivileged backgrounds - he's releasing an album of their music as Fire Camp in the UK nationwide, funded out of his own pocket. In 2006, he took on politician David Cameron after Cameron attacked rap music. Lethal approached Cameron to meet him to discuss ways to use himself as a role model to the youth in the UK and try to get them an interest in politics in the UK, and what goes on in the country. He had a lot of media support to get his message across including a two page feature in the Independent, along with piece in The Guardian, Times, and a piece on BBC2's Newsnight.
Quoted in the Guardian recently as the 'best known rapper in the indie scene', a credit given to him after touring underground indie clubs around the UK and working in the studio with the likes of The Rakes, Babyshambles, Test Icicles (RIP), Mystery Jets, Your Code Name Is Milo, Metronomy & Tigerforce. Look out for Lethal Bizzle’s new album out on V2 Music in 2007.
The atmospheric shadows created by the pavilion show the opposites of enclosure and openness, light and dark. Words written on the structure are from a novel by Arthur C. Clarke, describing the discovery of a vast spacecraft that contains an extraordinary archituctural landscape. As the viewer enters the pavilion, they must take an active role in exploring both the physical interior of the installation and its references to other worlds.
You can view this work in the Tate Collection.
Cristina Iglesias uses architectural forms to investigate exterior and inner worlds. She was born in 1956 in San Sebastian, Spain. She lives and works in Madrid.
You can read about Cristina Iglesias in the Tate Collection.
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