Camille Norment and David Toop performing at Nordic Pavilion, Venice Art Biennale 2015

In Camille Norment s sitespecific, sculptural and sonic installation Rapture in the Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale 2015, the glass armonica, a legendary 18thcentury instrument that creates ethereal music from glass and water plays a major role. Invented by Benjamin Franklin and once played by Mozart and Marie Antoinette, the glass armonica was at first celebrated for curing people with its entrancing music, but later it was banned because it was thought to induce states of ecstasy and arouse s