Florian Hecker is an artist who has recently performed with Aphex Twin and collaborated with Cerith Wyn Evans. Hecker’s latest exhibition, co-commissioned by two non-profit spaces––Birmingham’s Ikon Gallery and the Chisenhale Gallery in London––opens at the latter on February 12.

THE SOUND PIECES in this show will entail distinct requirements for their installation. But what is constant is the dialogue between the micro, meso, and macro sonic levels. Housed in a renovated veneer factory from the 1930s, the Chisenhale Gallery plainly shows its industrial past. Five large T-bars cross the ceiling and divide the otherwise open space. This architectural structure appeared to me an intuitive five-fold division of the gallery, and superimposing a