More sound mirror art

An e-mail informs me of the following event.

10th Disinformation solo exhibition
“Fire in the Eye” + “The Origin of Painting” “The Analysis of Beauty” + “Blackout”

Saltburn Artists Projects
30 Marske Road
Saltburn TS12 1QG
20 Jan to 11 March 2007
www.saltburnartistsprojects.org.uk
http://rixc.lv/waves/en/txt08.html

The exhibition features “Blackout” – Barry Hale’s highly influential (and frequently copied) video of monolithic, concrete air-defence Sound Mirrors.

“Blackout” was made to accompany Sound Mirror imagery created by photographer Julian Hills in 1996 (for the packaging of the Disinformation “Antiphony” double remix CD, published in 1997). The “Blackout” video has been shown at The Royal College of Art (London),chirn Kunsthalle (Frankfurt), The Dom (Moscow), Galerie fur Zeitgennossische Kunst (Leipzig) and others, and exhibited at The Mac (Birmingham), CCCB (Barcelona), Quay Arts (Isle of Wight), Q Gallery (Derby), South Hill Park (Bracknell), The Waygood Gallery (Newcastle), The ICA (London), Event Gallery (London), Wrexham Arts Centre and The Latvian National Museum of Art.

Disinformation videos available on You Tube…

Hope you enjoy!

1. Disinformation “Artificial Lightning”* Live at The Hayward Gallery, London
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5s8RURPJ-Y
(*aka “The Origin of Painting”)

2. Disinformation “The Origin of Painting”
Live at Fabrica, Brighton
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Vi-lB_2_qg

3. Disinformation at NTT ICC Tokyo (extract)
Phase of Post Music concert series
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sLFx4T8R74

4. Disinformation “The Analysis of Beauty”
Premiered at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMtz9ciE9M0

5. Disinformation and Hari Kunzru (extract)
Interview for “The Lounge” on Sky TV
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L1o5zUWkOM

6. Disinformation vs Strange Attractor “National Grid”
Live at New Corsica Studios, London + detailed text
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B13-09K-Ubc

7. Disinformation “The Origin of Painting”
Live at Wrexham Arts Centre
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji6Wvp7aALE

Sound mirror updates

Interest in acoustic mirrors continues to grow. Among a backlog of e-mails, I’ve been told that

  • There are a pair of acoustic mirrors at the excellent Snibston Discovery Park in Leicestershire. Anyone know more?
  • The Aeroplane monthly published a story on sound mirrors sometime in
    the 1970s
  • An email from RAF Boulmer says they have been discussing sound mirrors in training (hopefully along with more recent technology!).
  • The CD booklet for the 2004 album We Pray The Brooze by The Fujii uses an image of a sound mirror.
  • But most excitingly, a new sculpture is being planned for construction by the River Witham about 2 miles east of Lincoln, including a concrete listening device.