This trio of pieces is aimed at the conclusion of this course.
NB there are supposed to be 2 links in this text but WordPress, despite having coded them for me, is not showing them it seems, so I have posted them as text at the appropriate place. Working on it.
Volume
Currys is our high street conduit for the technology that brings the internet into our homes, enabling us to participate in the Great Conversation. Volume is the idea of celebrating what we often reject as noise. The cocktail party effect is when we focus on one conversation out of the many simultaneous happening in one place.
Volume@Currys
http://usurp.org.uk/events/volume_at_currys/
celebrates these conversations all together in one event by switching on every sound making electrical device in Currys and turning them all up together.
Threshold
is an sound-art exhibition held in The Usurp Art Gallery in West Harrow. Multiple audio streams form a variety of sources play off each other by a series of changeable thresholds on side chained noise gates.
Threshold@usurp
http://www.usurp.org.uk/exhibitions/threshold/index.php
offers the gallery visitor the opportunity to contribute to the conversation by connecting their own media player to the LAN, effecting and being effected by the running dialogue.
Release
The challenges presented by this idea have opened the discussion of digital media, mashup culture, ownership and originality, bringing in the subject of vinyl and the way sound recordings used to be distributed. In todays context of the digital media ocean, the aura of the object, as Walter Benjamin would regard it, is making something of a comeback. Pressing copies of a mashup containing every song released by the Beatles to a 7″ record has lead to discussions with pressing plants across the world, commercial, cottage industry and hobbyist, thriving, changing hands or closing down, but all with astonishing craftsmanship and diversity of technique, making the mass production of records over the years seem remarkable in ways beyond simple quantity. Release focusses on one piece entitled All Together Now. The b-side is the same piece, only inaudible. Pressing in the pipeline.
All Together Now – Everything the Beatles ever did. by ramjac
Filed under: Mashups, originals, Sounds, The Mashup, Words
