“Theophany” artwork in Clot Magazine – https://tinyurl.com/y4vp7wxl
Happy New Year folks!
Ealing Extranormal – Volume 22
Experimental music at Open Ealing Arts Centre…
Saturday 16th December 2023 at 7:30pm
Flooded Access + Disinformation
Rob Flint/FLOMO
Secret Nuclear
Swilly
Disinformation + Flooded Access performing “National Grid”
Open Ealing Arts Centre
Unit 14 School Lane
Dickens Yard
London W5 2TD
Please donate to Doctors Without Borders – https://msf.org.uk/
Tickets – ealingextranormal.eventbrite.co.uk
“Disinformation + Savion Glover knock it out of the park in terms of weirdness”
https://www.normanrecords.com/records/200411-various-cire-noire
https://sahkorecordings.bandcamp.com/track/doppelg-nger-variations
• Egg Meat – “Milton / Earth” (Massive Bereavement Mix) 07:11
• Umfang – “Baby Blue” (Drone Edit) 05:07
• Disinformation + Savion Glover – “Doppelgänger Variations” 06:39
• Nuke Watch – “NWPJS Perc” 04:09
• Georgia – “Mekael” 04:00
• Ana Fosca – “Anima” (Novus) 07:28
• Rafael Toral – “Mixed States Uncoded” 03:53
“Doppelgänger Variations” is loosely based on the composition of the same name, D957 #13 in the Concordance of works by composer Franz Schubert.
This “Doppelgänger” variation was field tested at the “Liminality 2 – The Unknown” (event series), Gallery 46, Whitechapel, London, 10 February 2018.
See also – https://tinyurl.com/y7n9j9um
Vinyl cover artwork by Wladd Muta, special thanks to Tommi Grönlund
Anechoic chamber at the Post Office Research Station, Martlesham Heath – POTJ, 29, 2, 1977
Social history of technology podcasters Carl Attrill and Leila Johnston in conversation with Joe Banks, producer of the art and music project Disinformation… discussing the Radio 4 “Today” programme, Hari Kunzru on Sky TV, “National Grid” (electromagnetic sound artwork), Very Low Frequency (VLF) radio art, Channel Four “Electric Skies”, Shortwave Magazine, Mike Harding and Ash International, Disobey (club night), the Royal College of Art, Lewisham Arthouse, David Land Arts Centre, the prehistory of “National Grid” (circa 1982), London Underground, “Sense Data & Perception” CD, The Wire (magazine), Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP), the “Rorschach Audio” research project, sine-wave speech, alleged “Satanic” back-masking, perceptual hypotheses, sub-bass, acid house, dub reggae, “Foetal and infant hypnagogic sense memories…”, Fabrica Gallery, The Foundry (art space), anechoic chambers, Pawel Jastreboff, the Post Office (British Telecom) Research Station (Martlesham Heath), “System X” (sound artwork, Nov 2017), the Post Office Tower (aka Telecom Tower, aka BT Tower), Post Office Telecommunications, GCHQ, Berlin Wall, “Spycatcher”, Alan Turing, Pilot ACE, “Language [as] Meta-Technology” (sound artwork), “The ultimate form of communications technology…”, Electro War, BBC Daventry, Mark Pilkington, analogue TV, Barry Hale, Sound Mirrors (aka the “Blackout” video artwork), “The Noise” (sound installation), “A Dictionary of the Underworld”, Outernet Arts, and… Ferris Bueller”s Day Off.
Interview date 12 Sept 2023 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QLYFKMJU9o
Special Notes…
12:02 – “Ferocious energy” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO_AP2LlN6E
43:00 – Disinformation “System X” – Domo Baal Gallery, London, 4 Nov 2017
47:54 – Operation Gold – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gold
49:00 – Pilot ACE – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_ACE
1:14:18 – “Noise – nitroglycerin or dynamite, in reference to safe-blowing” – sound installation at The Foundry, Hoxton (March 2000) – quoting “A Dictionary of the Underworld – British & American, Being the Vocabularies of Crooks, Criminals, Racketeers, Beggars and Tramps, Convicts, the Commercial Underworld, the Drug Traffic, the White Slave Traffic, Spivs” by Eric Partridge, RKP 1949
Errata: 22:50 – Bernie Krause (not Charlie Krause, sorry); 1:08:38 – Halcyon Electronics was in Wimbledon (not Sutton)
“The television screen is the retina of the mind’s eye… the television screen is part of the physical structure of the brain…” – David Cronenberg, Videodrome, 1983
This article was originally published in the (Moving Image Artists) MIA Journal, issue 2, in April 2020, and has now been re-published by Clot Magazine, in substantially up-dated form, to take in significant new material.
This article [see link] copyright © Joe Banks – September 2019 + June 2023
Feature in Clot Magazine – https://tinyurl.com/y2t8czmk
“Ammonite” by Disinformation has been exhibited at Pop 2, Outernet Arts (London) May to July 2023, Light Sensitive Material [conference] (London) November 2019, White Box Gallery (London) July 2019, Passengers Offsite (Sluice HQ, London) November 2018, the Dronica Festival (London) April 2018, Blinc Digital Festival (Conwy) October 2012, and at Viktor Wynd Fine Art (London) January 2010.
Thanks to Domo Baal, Nicolò Becciu, Lula Criado, Andrew Curtis, Karl England, Daniel Fawcett, David Gates, Kevin Gauld, Barry Hale, Michelle Henning, Graham High, Julie Hill, Junko Theresa Mikuriya, Clara Pais, Chris Patten, Mark Pilkington, Frances Prokofiev, Meritxell Rosell, Nicola Serra, Tony Tremlett and Ruth Waters.
Thanks also to Eye Magazine for recommending the exhibit at Outernet Arts.
“Fossils fascinate me – they’re like time capsules; if only one could unwind this spiral it would probably play back to us a picture of all the landscapes it’s ever seen” –
J.G. Ballard, Prisoner of the Coral Deep, 1964
This Sunday, 21 May 2023, the split-screen version of the Disinformation “Ammonite” video installation opens at the Outernet Arts exhibition space, opposite (the) Centre Point (building) and Tottenham Court Road underground – London WC2H 8LH. “Ammonite” is exhibited on the smallest of the Outernet video walls, but is still massive, the sound system is excellent, and the image quality is amazing.
The Outernet exhibition space (aka the Now Building) is the largest digital exhibition space in Europe, and (according to The Times newspaper) one of the most popular tourist attractions in the UK. “Ammonite” opens to the public at mid-day on Sunday, then runs every Sunday, mid-day to 6pm, for 8 weeks – 21 May to 16 July 2023.
Short video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b9xqp4Dico
More info – https://www.outernetarts.com/channel
Artwork by Joe Banks, photo [above] © Julie Hill (2018)
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.
Click here (scroll down for full description) – https://tinyurl.com/4z5hsrdr
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 –
https://tinyurl.com/4hm7f25y [select “2008-2009” + scroll down]
Disinformation + Rorschach Audio 