Christian Markley compositions is the first major solo exhibition of the Swiss American artist in Spain for over a decade. Markley is engaged with experimentally music and explored the relationship between sound and vision. Video quarter from 2002 is a video installation constructed from clips, from Hollywood movies and musical performances that are assembled into a new musical composition. The text work Mixed Reviews appears across many of the walls of the exhibition. It's also an unconventional collage composed of extracts from music reviews. For each display the prior translation is used as the basis of a new translation into the language of the place in which it is shown. The descriptive phrases become ever more distanced from the sounds that they initially intended to describe highlighting the fact that the text itself is an abstraction and can only ever approximate the original sounds played. Chalkboard a giant musical score in the form of a chalkboard which invites visitors to participate in the act of composing music, drawing, writing or creating other forms of graffiti that will be assembled into a composition. Musical performers will come and respond to the drawings and words made by the public on the chalkboard and create from those a musical performance after which we erase everything and the process begins again. Many of the works in the exhibition deal with Christians fascination with onomatopoeias. These are words that represent sounds phonetically but also visually and are drawn from popular culture including comics and graphic design in the urban environment. Surround sounds is an immersive installation across four screens. The screens literally surround the audience or visitor. Onomat appears drawn from comics are animated into an all-encompassing composition although the work is silent the audience is surrounded by sound. They are invited to imagine the sounds wearing, buzzing and swooping around them. These action paintings use onomat appears that describe wet sounds or the sound of liquid paint hitting canvas. Christian Markley has said music runs through almost everything I do. His work makes us think again about our cultural, emotional and sensory relationship to our visual and sonic environment.