Brenda Ray is a film sound recordist and has worked on countless
commercial and documentary films since 1982, including most recently, Glass: A
Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts, a film about the life of composer Philip
Glass, Taxi to the Dark Side, the Academy Award Winner/Best Documentary ‘08
about human rights violations in the US military, and Julian Schnabel: An HBO
Portrait, among other films. Her documentary work around the world has inspired
her artistic and political audio installations.
Previous audio art work includes Our Dreams (2006), a musical audio track incorporating ten voices that describe their favorite memories, dreams, loves, and what makes them laugh. Our Dreams is recorded in several languages, including Hungarian, Croatian, French, Susu, Mandarin, Portuguese, English, Spanish, German, and Russian. Warsaw-Dakar (2007) is a techno-trance piece incorporating French, Polish, English and Walof.
Brenda Ray began the World Voices Project two years ago, and the project continues to evolve. She has interviewed friends, colleagues and artists from different countries, covering nearly 50 nations and different languages. Among the many voice recordings are languages such as Tigrinya of Eritrea, Amharic of Ethiopia, Mongolian, Zulu and Shona of Zimbabwe. Her collaborator and designer of her audio installations is Zoran Zelic of ArchiCulture.net.
