The CD features a “Rorschach Audio” pastiche by Disinformation, also Gaia B, Alice Evermore & Eavesdropper, Incite/, Helena Gough, Sami Klemola, Charlie Morrow, Jean-Marc Savic & Sinebag – 2nd edition now available…
“Thought-provoking… fascinating” – http://wp.me/pwcbn-9Dj
“Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.” – John Locke (1632 to 1704)
See also – https://rorschachaudio.wordpress.com/2013/01/05/target-hypnosis/
And special thanks to International Times for plugging the book!
As EH Gombrich described, “It is the story of the signaller who misheard the urgent message ‘Send reinforcements, am going to advance’ as ‘Send three & four pence, am going to a dance’.” (see “Rorschach Audio” book, pages 22 to 26, etc).
Featuring a critical essay by the art historian, curator and Wyndham Lewis biographer Richard Humphreys, “The Analysis of Beauty” is a profusely-illustrated, high-quality 204mm-square 48-page perfect-bound paperback, which documents the activities of the installation art and electronic music project Disinformation. Described by The Metro newspaper as “the black-ops unit of the avant-garde”, and by the author Hari Kunzru as (the) “poet of noise”, from 1995 onwards Disinformation began work on a program of research which led to a series of highly-influential and innovative LPs and CDs, which initially focussed on exploring the creative potential of recordings of electromagnetic (often VLF radio) noise phenomena – electrical interference from live mains electricity and electric storms, from the London underground, from industrial and IT hardware, and even the sun.
“The Analysis of Beauty” catalogue documents the evolution of Disinformation’s artistic strategies, including numerous concerts, gallery installations and solo exhibitions, also focussing on the title-exhibit (“The Analysis of Beauty” – which is named after the book by the artist William Hogarth), the “Spellbound” video installation (“An Allegorical Portrait of J. Robert Oppenheimer”), “Theophany” (“The Voice of God”), “National Grid” (sound from live mains electricity), “Stargate” (solar radio noise recordings), the “Rorschach Audio” research project, and Disinformation’s equally influential work at the abandoned village of Imber on Salisbury Plain, and documentation of the UK’s extraordinary coastal air-defence Sound Mirrors. The Guardian newspaper wrote that “Disinformation combine scientific nous with poetic lyricism to create some of the most beautiful installations around”.
http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/the-analysis-of-beauty/
“The ear, the organ of fear, could have evolved as greatly as it has only in the night and twilight of obscure caves and woods, in accordance with the mode of life of the age of timidity, that is to say the longest human age there has ever been… That is how music acquired the character of an art of night and twilight.” – Friedrich Nietzsche “Daybreak” 1881 (“The Analysis of Beauty” catalogue, page 38)
Events at Rushgrove House during Saturday, 31 May 2014, 2pm to 5pm –
2.30pm – Peter Lewis & Makiko Nagaya in collaboration with Disinformation
3.30pm – Talks by Peter Suchin, Byzantia Harlow & Zehra Arslan
4.30pm – Reading by Peter Lewis
Rushgrove House
Rushgrove Street
London SE18 5DD
Southeastern trains from London Bridge to Woolwich Dockyard – 20 mins; or Jubilee Line from Stratford to Canning Town, then DLR to Woolwich Arsenal – 20 mins.
From 15 May to 15 June 2014, the ground floor of Rushgrove House features an exhibition of text artworks and journals by Art & Language, presented within a functioning artist project space. The project space hosts artists Zehra Arslan, Keith Bowler, Robert Ellis, Jason File, Byzantia Harlow, Peter Lewis & Makiko Nagaya, Girolamo Marri, Andrew Palmer and Susanne Winterling. The upper floor features “A Critical Contagion in the Quiet of the Night” – a retrospective by the artist and critic Peter Suchin (transferred from The & Model Gallery in Leeds) –
Disinformation + Rorschach Audio 