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‘Wall of Sound’ graphite rubbings from the woodchip wallpaper in Jimi Hendrix's London home at 23 Brook Street before it’s renovation. As if by magic, the wall rubbings came out looking like music notation. 

Hendrix’s home is next-door to where the composer Handel lived 200 years earlier. It is said that Hendrix saw visions of Handel in the walls of his flat. 

The wallpaper scores are composed of abstract marks created by graphite rubbings of the woodchip wallpaper on to blank manuscript paper. 

An interpretation of the wallpaper score was performed as part of the London Jazz festival in Handel’s rehearsal room where he composed the Messiah by Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian and Oren Marshall. Hendrix’s home is due to open as a museum in February 2016. 

http://www.mayaramsay.co.uk/work/jimi-hendrix-project

http://handelhendrix.org/

(1 & 2) ‘Wall of Sound’, detail

(3) ‘Wall of Sound’ 

(4) Work on progress on ‘Wall of Sound’ at 23 Brook Street 

(5) ‘Wall of Sound’ performance in Handel’s rehearsal room at 25 Brook Street

(6) ‘Wall of Sound’ installed in Handel’s bedroom at 25 Brook Street