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34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
Leeds Beckett University
Artists’ uses of the word revolution. Limited edition audio CD and booklet.
In 2009 I was awarded an Arts Council England Grant and a Leeds Metropolitan University research Award totalling £4,899 to produce a new sound artwork. The award provided me with production costs and an eight-month research period in which to develop the artwork in the form of a 2XCD edition designed by Lisa Novak in an edition of 1000 with a booklet.
My research centred on the relationship between artists and revolution, and more specifically the use of sound to explore the phonetics of the word. I took revolution as a fundamental behavioural driver linked to creativity to develop a 67-track playlist that included archival material on which I secured full permission. Content included sounds by Douglas Gordon, Aldous Huxley, Marcel Duchamp, the Black Panthers, Herbert Marcuse, Sarah Jones, Raul Castro and George Maciunas.
The 2XCD set ‘Artists’ uses of the word revolution’ contained a wide range of genres, from Spanish punk, reggae from Trinidad, poetry from Kurdistan and techno from Belarus. This curatorial breadth led me to develop a further four CDs using similar curatorial ideas. The CD also coincided with me instigating an annual series of master classes delivered with sound recording artist Chris Watson.
I presented the CDs as online designs and installations at a range of sound art events, including SOUNDWALK2012 [Los Angeles 2012], Open network [Los Angeles 2012] and Cultural Hijack [Architecture Association, London 2013]. Content was also broadcast by nictoglobe [Amsterdam 2011], V22 Summer Radio Club [London, Forest Fringe Travelling Sound Library, 2011], webSYNradio [Nimes 2012] and SecretThirteen [Lithuania 2013].
