Orpheus Mix – https://www.flickr.com/disinfo/53805202392/
Thanks to everyone who came to the “Rorschach Audio” lecture-demonstration at the Bernie Grant Arts Centre in Tottenham last night. Last night’s talk was the inaugural presentation in the new Modus Sandbox series organised by Modus Arts (and was, owing to limited capacity, promoted almost completely by word-of-mouth). Special thanks to Wajid Yaseen, Annie Goh, and Caitlin Evans.
“Rorschach Audio – Art & Illusion for Sound” stresses the influence that little-known wartime intelligence work with sound had on one of the most important works of visual arts theory ever published…
“New Generations” exhibition
12th to 26th January 2024
Mondays to Fridays [only]
Opening 9am to 5pm
LCB Depot
31 Rutland Street
Leicester LE1 1RE
“New Generations” at LCB Depot, Leicester, is an exploration of “the processes that artists employ to create intricate and surprising computational artwork”, featuring the “Ammonite” video by Disinformation, alongside exhibits by Chris Joseph, Stuart Smith, Karen Hazelton, Seph Li, Fania Raczinski & Dave Everitt, Alp Tuğan, Simon Šerc, Algoritmarte, Mateus Domingos, Alan Jetzt, Paul Mazzitelli, Khush Kali, Stephen Scrivener, Howard Cohen, Stephen Bell, Sean Clark, Desmond Henry and Brian Reffin Smith.
https://www.interactdigitalarts.uk/projects/new-generations
Images – https://photos.app.goo.gl/TRdPGEDDstR7ctAM8
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
Visual 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)
Disinformation + Rorschach Audio 