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Last chance, over the coming week, to catch this retrospective of the innovative and influential Bow Gamelan Ensemble, the musical artist collective founded in 1983 by Anne Bean, Paul Burwell (1948-2007) and Richard Wilson. Inspired, originally, by the sounds and sights encountered on boat trips on the Thames, and the sound of the gamelan – the distinctive percussive ensemble music of Java and Bali – the result was an experimental intermingling of percussion and performance art.

Wilson, known for his outrageous sculptural architectural interventions – Turning the Place Over, the spinning cut-out facade of an old office block for Liverpool European Capital of Culture 2008, or Hang on a Minute Lads... I’ve got a Great Idea (2012), a replica coach teetering on the edge of, among others, Hong Kong’s historic Peninsula Hotel – and Anne Bean, known for her collaborative performance art work with a number of artists, including The Kipper Kids collective, worked with Paul Burwell, a musician and artist who stressed improvisation and helped found the London Musicians Collective charity.

As Bow Gamelan, they used found objects – from river barges to light bulbs - and familiar sounds and everyday objects, inventing instruments to explore a radical, avant-garde and visual sound-world that explored the confluence between noise and “meaningful utterance”. Explosive, funny, eerie and provocative, their work is seen here reimagined from the archive: photographs, video and soundworks presented as an installation, Bow Lines, complete with music stands and thunder sheets, which was “played” at the opening ceremony last month by W0B.

Bow Gamelan Ensemble: Great Noises that Fill the Air, Cooper Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, 13 Perth Road, Dundee, www.dundee. ac.uk/cooper-gallery, until Dec 15, Mon- Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 11am-5pm