https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/astonishing-things/
See also the “Rorschach Audio” book pages 125, 126 and 127
Image: Strange Attractor + Disinformation “Circuit Blasting” CD artwork, Adaadat Records 2006
Transmission Ecologies Ep. 35 – featuring Strange Attractor + Disinformation “Circuit Blasting” (high-voltage electro-kinetic sound art); plus Disinformation + Strange Attractor “National Grid” (electromagnetic noise from live mains electricity).
Click here (scroll right down for full track listing) – https://tinyurl.com/4kc6x6dp
Also available on Soundcloud – https://tinyurl.com/ypdrjzna
Original broadcast 24 Nov 2024. Podcast produced for Stegi Radio, Athens, hosted by Onassis Stegi. Special thanks to Afroditi Psarra. Hi-fi loudspeakers recommended.
Ruthlessly efficient as ever, my network of spies (well, OK, my auntie in Twickenham) sent through photos of my book “Rorschach Audio – Art & Illusion for Sound”, as it appears, displayed in the exhibition “A Ripple in Time” by the artist Gary Stewart, currently on show at Orleans House Gallery in Twickenham.
The quote “There is no reality without interpretation… just as there is no innocent eye, there is no innocent ear” by E.H. Gombrich, appears in large format wall based text, on the exhibition’s balcony level, and in the “Rorschach Audio” book – page 58 – published in 2012.
“National Grid” sound installation by Disinformation
Expanded Music “Into the Depths”
Friday 11 Oct 2024
6pm (sharp) to 11pm
Sat 12 Oct 2024
12 mid-day to 6pm
Farsight Collective
4 Flitcroft Street
London WC2H 8DJ
“London was the capital of the electricity of the mind” – Geoffrey Grigson, BBC Home Service + The Listener (magazine) 1957
Featuring live performances by Nnja Riot, Alien Tunic, Felt Trip, Silkarmour and the Hungry Ghost, plus the (live) “National Grid” sound installation by Disinformation – the “National Grid” sound artwork opens at 6pm sharp, performances from 7pm onwards; “National Grid” also opens Saturday 12 October, 12 mid-day to 6pm…
Exhibited in the massive subterranean space beneath London’s Farsight Collective, sonic arts project Disinformation exhibits the “National Grid” sound installation. With a nod to the Farsight Collective’s extreme proximity to the guitar shops in London’s Denmark Street, the pure musical 50Hz note of live mains electricity, the raw mains hum that manifests in malfunctioning guitar amplifiers, guitar pick-ups and guitar leads, is transformed into a rhythmically pulsing, hypnotic and immersive low-frequency sound mass – a monolithic and ultra-minimalist soundtrack for the creative genius of electrification. Extrapolating the artist Gustav Metzger’s concepts of Auto-Destructive and Auto-Creative Art, and also Link Wray, The Who and Jimi Hendrix’s work with damaged amplifiers, smashed guitars and audio feedback, “National Grid” exploits a technical “error” of conventional music practice, exploring whole new vistas of sonic art, articulating the architectural acoustics of its own exhibition space, which visitors “play” through their movements through and interactions with the acoustic space. As Jimi Hendrix said after his performance at Woodstock, “we play it the way the air is in America today – the air is slightly static”. As the sci-fi author William F. Temple wrote in 1951, “the air itself seemed to be oscillating with electricity”.
Clot Magazine – https://tinyurl.com/ynd9attb
Trebuchet Magazine – https://tinyurl.com/3ps2v3fm
Exhibition Guide (PDF) – https://tinyurl.com/2mxmf65h
The installation coincides with the debut exhibition – of paintings and drawings – by Evan Dando, also at Farsight Collective, 5 to 12 Oct 2024.
Disinformation + Rorschach Audio 