LISTENING ARTS PROGRAMMES
ELECTROMAGNETIC SOUND ART
Electronic music producer, researcher and installation artist Joe Banks discusses “National Grid” - the highly influential sound installation, recording and performance concept, which Joe produces under the aegis of the art project Disinformation. “National Grid” is a work of electromagnetic sound art, originally created using VLF-band radio technology, later using direct line noise from live mains electricity.
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This presentation discusses technical, musical and symbolic aspects of “National Grid”, in relation to art history, to experimental and classical music, and in relation to literature, featuring short readings from the writers H.G. Wells, William F. Temple and Bruno Schulz.
JOE BANKS is an electronic music producer, researcher and installation artist, who performs and exhibits using the brand name Disinformation. Disinformation artworks are primarily concerned with electricity, communications and language, having a special focus on electromagnetism and on the psychoacoustics of speech perception, the latter being the subject of Joe’s critically acclaimed research monograph “Rorschach Audio - Art & Illusion for Sound”.
Aesthetica Magazine described Disinformation artworks as “mesmerising”, as “hypnotic and captivating” and as “sublime”, The Guardian newspaper stated that “Disinformation combine(s) scientific nous with poetic lyricism to create some of the most beautiful installations around”, and The Metro newspaper described Disinformation as “the black-ops unit of the avant-garde”.
