Author: Chris Whitehead
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Static cinema. MARK VERNON (Entr’acte 2012) This version of Static Cinema was originally conceived by Mark Vernon as the soundtrack element of an art installation. In a room a female nude manikin stands on a stage, limbs deliberately and flamboyantly…
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Forma y percepción. DAVID VÉLEZ (Impulsive Habitat 2012) Situation Recently I received a book through the post called Vanished Ocean. I was distractedly reading through fragments of this during my second full experience of David Velez’s ‘Forma y percepción’. In…
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Precision. RICHARD SANDERSON (Ideal state no-number series 2012) Richard Sanderson is, amongst other things, an improvising melodeon player, but for this release he doesn’t so much play the accordion as explore it. In that sense this is a field recording concerned with…
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White hole states. ÁKOS GARAI (White_line 2012) State 1: The shards formed by the cracking of the acrylic ice on top of a synthetic lake in some unknown alien environment scrape their abrasive edges together. The air (or whatever gas…
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Gryphaea. CHRIS WHITEHEAD (Obs 2012) “Gryphaea” is the newest release by english sound artist Chris Whitehead responsible for the work “Estuary” that on this journal Hiroki Sasajima highlighted as one of the remarkably interesting works of 2011. “Gryphaea is a genus of extinct oysters, marine…
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Mall muzak. SIMON WHETHAM (Unfathomless 2011) In George Romero’s film Dawn of the Dead, the zombies shambling around America in search of fresh flesh to gorge upon have lost almost all of their humanity. Everything but the last few remnants…