Disinformation + Rorschach Audio

Following the Upplýsingafölsun Hlustunarpartý at Mengi, Reykjavik, in March 2016, which featured the Disinformation “Stargate” recordings (shortwave radio noise from the sun, first published in 1996), the Sluice Expo at LungA Skólinn, Seyðisfjörður, May 2025, features the Disinformation sound artwork “National Grid” (electromagnetic noise from live mains electricity, published on the same “Stargate” LP in 1996) –

https://sluice.info/events/seydisfjordur

The programming of “National Grid” is particularly appropriate, since Iceland’s first mains AC distribution network was powered by the hydro-electric plant at Fjarðaselsvirkjun, Seyðisfjörður, with the lights switching on in Seyðisfjörður in October 1913 –

https://nat.is/fjardarsel-power-plant/

The Sluice Radio programme features the “National Grid” audio documentary (recorded for the Listening Arts Channel, March 2021); alongside programming by Cos Ahmet, There Are No Birds Here, Keh Ng, Ruth Jones, Beth Ross, Kimbal Bumstead, LungA School, Corridor8, Yarmonics, Matthew Stock, Will Gresson, Iulia Boșcu, Contemporary Quarters, Elena Botts, Ari Kerssens, Geography of Colour, TLK, Ambitions Graveyard, Josh Hall, Jay Goodbrave, Meitheal, Sarah Wishart, Oliver Payne, Tazelaar Stevenson, Leslie Deere, Jim Ricks, Stuart Bowditch, Nicola Colclough, Lucie Biek, Julian Carandini and Alan Dunn.

The Sluice Film programme also features the “National Grid” video installation (commissioned by Fabrica Gallery, Brighton, for exhibition in November 2001); alongside film and video works by the artists Klāvs Liepiņš, Christina Bennett, Liz Blum, Paul Vivian, Marie Therese Ross, Marcia Teusink, Nicolas Middleton, Fran Hayes, Seán Talbot, Sophia Archontis, User07453677, Rieko Whitfield, Jesse May Fisher, Zach Oakman, Simon Lee Dicker, Liberty Smith, Coleman Stewart, Sandra Crisp, Alex Pearl and Parham Ghalamdar.