Silent Sound

Silent Sound is an epic performance and installation project, first presented by A Foundation during the Liverpool Biennial in 2006.
It is a uniquely emotive experience which taps into the framework of Victorian public performance to explore the mind's susceptibility to subliminal suggestion.
The performance took place in the Small Concert Hall at St. George's Hall in Liverpool, where in 1865 The Davenport Brothers had performed their public seance act on the same stage. During Silent Sound the artists are seated inside a soundproof booth, inspired by the Davenport's 'Spirit Cabinet'. In unison, they repeat a secret phrase and using heir custom-made Silent Sound Machine this statement attempts to be subliminally embedded into a music recital. The original score for Silent Sound was composed by J. Spaceman (aka Jason Pierce from the band Spiritualized). The performance was introduced by parapsychologist Dr. Ciaran O'Keeffe.
Silent Sound was installed for Art Positions at Art Basel Miami Beach 2007 in a shipping container on the beach, and was described by the New York Times as "“one of the fair’s biggest word-of-mouth hits”.
More information about the performance: iainandjane.com/work/live-art/silent-sound-live/
More information about the installation: iainandjane.com/work/installation/silent-sound/

Primal Scream VS The Pop Group: Bobby Gillespie & Mark Stewart in conversation

Leader of the influential band The Pop Group, Mark Stewart is making his return with new solo album The Politics Of Envy on 26 March, boasting a host of collaborations including cult filmmaker Kenneth Anger, punk pioneer Richard Hell, Factory Floor, Lee 'Scratch' Perry and more. Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie appears on first single Autonomia, and the pair sat down to discuss the music and politics that have influenced their outlook as artists and their lives. In Part I, Gillespie and Stewart chat about their early days and shared heroes.
In Part 2 they chat about bending genres, political activism and Donna Summer...

Announcement

9/11 Victims’ Remains Disposed Of in Landfill

A letter in a picture by David Hockney

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♪♫ Lou Reed & David Bowie - Transformer

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The Final Academy Documents

The Final Academy - a 1982 tour in Britain, organized by David Dawson, Roger Ely and Genesis P-Orridge. The project was based on, featuring works of and was inspired by William S Burroughs. The Final Academy Documents is a DVD of edited highlights from the tour, including Burroughs's public appearance in 1982 and reading from his work at Manchester's Haçienda club, a performance by John Giorno and includes the experimental film collaborations with Anthony Balch, Brion Gysin, and others - Towers Open Fire and Ghosts at No. 9
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Bonus:
Burroughs/Warhol/Nico (Chelsea Hotel 1980)

♪♫ Bim Sherman & Strange Parcels - More Is Insane

♪♫ Midnite - White Collar Criminal

(Thanx trnsnd)

Liar. Liar. Pants on fire...

Psychic TV - Black (Live at the Subterrania Club, London March 1991)

Dangerous Minds have just put up a much earlier 1983 gig by Psychic TV...contrast and compare (I certainly know which I prefer). Was lucky enough to catch quite a few gigs including the debut at The Final Academy in 1982 thru to Amsterdam in 85 or 86...

I enjoy some of the Acid House type vibe releases they put out but I do think that Genesis really had become a total caricature of a caricature by this time (and as for now? Well I shall be polite and say nothing...)
(Thanx to Fred G for the logo!)

The Slits Live at The Vortex (1977)

Bonus:

Man Next Door - Berlin 1981
(This was the line up that had Bruce Smith on drums. Neneh Cherry on backing vocals and Steve Beresford on keyboards)

Viv Albertine interviewed by Richard Skinner while promoting the album Cut (Rock On 15/9/79)

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Republicans invite torture architect to testify in favor of indefinite detention

(Thanx GKB!)

Coping with Cupid - extract (1991)

Viv Albertine of punk legends The Slits made this agreeably loopy short for the BFI in 1991. Three blonde extra-terrestrial investigators have just 48 hours to find love on Earth whilst trying to avoid the deadly "loneliness virus". They are aided on their quest by a number of talking heads, including filmmaker/musician Don Letts, feminist Shere Hite, journalist Ros Coward and members of the public.
Fancy seeing you here Fifi!!!
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