The Chemical Brothers Go All Arty

The Chemical Brothers have created a piece of music for the Tate Modern.

The dance duo are amongst a string of artists asked by the gallery to make a piece of music inspired by a work of art.

The Chems piece called ‘The Rock Drill’ was inspired by Jacob Epstein’s Torso in Metal from the Rock Drill and can be heard at a listening post by the work now.

Other artists taking part in the Tate Tracks project are Graham Coxon, Klaxons, The Long Blondes, Union of Knives and Roll Deep.

Speaking about their creation, The Chemical Brothers said: "We chose to write music for The Rock Drill as it seemed so dynamic, powerful and modern - it just seemed so techno - we could imagine music as soon as we saw it.

“The sculpture has a feeling of movement. We wanted to capture the latent feeling of force that the figure has.

“Having heard music in art galleries before that is largely ambient, we wanted to make something rhythmic and structured that connected to the piece."