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Chris Abrahams

‘Walter De Maria, The Lightning Field, 1977’ (credit: John Cliett)

Energy Grids

Sherre DeLys & Chris Abrahams, Soundproof, May 2015

Radio maker Sherre DeLys and musician Chris Abrahams visit Walter De Maria’s work The Lightning Field, an installation of 400 stainless steel poles set in a grid formation in remote New Mexico. As with other pieces by DeLys that portray striking environments – maybe most prominently, 'Jarman’s Garden' (2001) – it demonstrates how visual sound can be. 'Energy Grids' hums with energy. I’d almost dare to describe it as non-fiction music.

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