Electromagnetic Sound Art – Disinformation + Various Artists – “Stargate” + “Ghost Shells”

Disinformation “Fire in the Eye” – “Painting with Electricity” – Joe Banks © 2004

The science fiction author J.G. Ballard described the “the dark intervals between the stars” as “a continuously flickering field of light, a gigantic phosphorescent ocean, filled with the vibrating pulses of electromagnetic communication pathways”. J.G. Ballard also described how “a huge volume of radio signals reach this planet”, and how “the hope remains that… we will decode them, and find… a spontaneously generated choral music, a naive electromagnetic architecture”, revealing “the primitive syntax of a philosophical system… as reassuring as the pattern of waves on a beach”.

• Disinformation + Chris and Cosey – Stargate (remix from “Antiphony” 2xCD) 1997
• Disinformation + Mark Poysden – Breathsweep (remix from “Antiphony”) 1997
• Disinformation – Ghost Shells (VLF radio recording, LP + CD version) 1996
• Disinformation + T:un[k] Systems – Synaptic Radio (remix from “Al Jabr” CD) 1999
• Disinformation – Ghost Shells (VLF radio recording, CD version) 1998
• Disinformation + Lawrence Casserley – Pi (remix from “Al Jabr”) 1999
• Disinformation + Jim O’Rourke – Booming Bass (remix from “Al Jabr”) 1999
• Disinformation + Simon Fisher Turner – Parabolas (remix from “Al Jabr”) 1999
• Disinformation + Atom Heart – Stage #4 (remix from “Antiphony”) 1997
• Disinformation + L.O.S.D. – Untitled (remix from “Antiphony”) 1997
• Disinformation + R.L.W. – Unidentified (remix from “Antiphony”) 1997
• Disinformation + Kapotte Muziek – Untitled (remix from “Antiphony”) 1997
• Disinformation + Marc Behrens – Addition (remix from “Antiphony”) 1997

Transmission Ecologies Ep. 23 – featuring “Stargate” (shortwave radio noise from the sun) and “Ghost Shells” (plus other VLF field recordings) by Disinformation, remixed by the artists Chris and Cosey, Mark Poysden, T:un[k] Systems, Lawrence Casserley, Jim O’Rourke, Simon Fisher Turner, Atom Heart, L.O.S.D., R.L.W., Kapotte Muziek and Marc Behrens. Podcast produced for Movement Radio, Athens, hosted by Onassis Stegi. NB: some tracks run concurrently, headphones recommended.

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Also available on Mixcloud – https://tinyurl.com/4z7nfd9v

Original broadcast 17 January 2023, special thanks to Afroditi Psarra

Quotations featured re – Disinformation events at Goldsmiths College –

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