Sunday 26 March 2023, 8pm
A new performance-installation for spark-gap transmission and electromagnetic spectrum.
Spark gaps made from everyday objects used as conducting electrodes. Scrap metal, tin cans, chairs, barrels, cooking utensils, a bicycle wheel are hung and agitated by performative action and motor mechanisms to create intense electrical sparks and raw sound. Whilst radio waves omitted from the high voltage constructions are picked-up by DIY coils, sound-circuits and portable radios. Sequences of charged Xenon camera flashes, Franklin bells, Jacobs Ladders and electromagnetic pumps are folded into the environment.
A wayfaring journey through the danger zone of high voltage light and sound.
Dirty Electronics & Tim Shaw’s Transmission Lines was developed during a recent residency in an old timber yard in Yamaguchi, Japan.
John Richards explores Dirty Electronics focusing on shared experiences, social interaction and critical making. He is concerned with the performance of large-group electronic music and DIY electronics, and he has come to consider these activities as a holistic action. It is a fluid, live practice associated with the ideas of workshop-installation and performance-installation. He has collaborated and performed with, amongst others, Merzbow, Pauline Oliveros and Howard Skempton a founder member of the Scratch Orchestra.
Tim Shaw is an artist working with sound, light and communication media. Presenting work through performances, installations and sound walks Tim is interested in how listening environments can be constructed or explored using a diverse range of techniques and technologies. He works with field recordings, electronics, video, modular synthesis, sound objects, self-made hardware and DIY software. His artworks, recordings and writings have been featured in The Guardian, Arte Tracks, Neural, BBC Radio 3, We Make Money Not Art, The British Music Collection, The Field Recording Show, Alphr, Its Nice That, SHAPE and The Space.
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