Atlas of Melodies, 2015

These works consist of vintage sheet music from Ari Benjamin Meyers’s collection for which the artist has composed a short piece of music.

Collected from different countries, manufacturers, periods, in various formats and states of use and decay, Benjamin Meyers has inscribed each sheet with a short composition evoked by the very same piece of paper. It takes as point of departure associations the artist has with the paper’s origin, format or intended purpose.

The compositions combine the artist’s personal associations with a specific piece of sheet music, which in the process become vessels of his thought but also recall traditional practices that because of standardized formats and computerized notations have begun to disappear.