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The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday
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Wednesday, 22 August 2012
John Richards: Charge/Discharge (Documentary & Performance 2012)
Charge/Discharge explores how the very essence of an electronic instrument, electricity, can be used to shape and control sound.
Current produced by the Faraday ‘Dirty’ Kinetic Generator is stored in capacitors that act as a pool/reservoir. The more capacitance/the greater the size of the pool/reservoir, the longer the capacitors will take to charge and discharge. An idiosyncrasy of this circuit, and a critical part of the piece, is that, as the capacitors discharge, a glissando and ‘dying away’ of sound occurs. It is left to the discretion of the performers to choose the number and size of capacitors for their instrument.
On direction, each performer frantically shakes their Faraday ‘Dirty’ Kinetic Generator. As the capacitors charge, a chord approximately of the same pitch will eventually sound. Once all the capacitors are fully charged, a cue is given to stop shaking. A continuous sound will be present. The unified single pitch will gradually fragment into downward glissandi and an evolving cluster chord as the capacitors discharge. At different times, each oscillator will eventually cease sounding. The piece ends when the final sounding oscillator is silent.
Credits:
Commissioned by Dartington International Summer School 2012
Produced, shot and edited by Andrew Hill
Performed by the Dirty Electronics Ensemble in the Great Hall, Dartington, 3rd August 2012
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The Folk Rock scene in California from the 60's to the 70's.
♪♫ Jim Jarmusch & Jozef Van Wissem - The Sun of the Natural World is Pure Fire
A short film by Diego Barrera that references mythology, the elements, and symbolism
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Write like Mark E Smith
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(Thanx Alan!)
Tuesday, 21 August 2012
Atrocity (Sydney - 21 August 2012 to Sunday 26 August 2012)
Lydia Lunch
Drawing on the exploration of the eruption of repressed desires and polymorphic perversions into the everyday, hinted at in J G Ballard’s experimental novel ‘The Atrocity Exhibition’, from where the colloquial title is drawn, this collection of images explores the emergence of new manifestations of the psychosexual unconscious. Curated by Jack Sargeant & Linsey Gosper.Alaska Projects
Level 2 of the Kings Cross Car Park, 9A Elizabeth Bay Rd Elizabeth Bay (directly behind the Kings Cross Police station).
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New South Wales
Australia
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