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It’s that time of year again when the North-East of England sees the biennial AV Festival descend upon its streets for a week. Working feverishly over the preceding fortnight, I managed to get involved by writing a piece of music for the festivities being held in Newcastle’s Culture Lab, as part of the Music & Machines VIII conference.

This year the symposium shared the AV Festival’s theme of Broadcast, featuring a variety of lectures, presentations and interventions by various key writers, artists and musicians. In between the scheduled presentations, artists from Newcastle University presented a series of installations and performance pieces taking inspiration from Jeffrey Sconce’s notion of Haunted Media, using sample material sourced from Antonin Artaud’s Pour en finir avec le jugement de Dieu, a recording originally commissioned by Radio France sixty years ago for a broadcast that never was (unsurprising, given the blasphemous and and somewhat scatological subject matter).

My resulting contribution was a 4.1 9-minute piece called Reception (here mixed down to stereo):

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Other highlights of the weekend for me were Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec’s Reality Soundtrack and Tetsuo Kogawa’s Deconstructing Broadcasting.

Tags: artaud, av festival, kogawa, sambolec

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