Surface Gallery Open Show 2006

Surface Gallery Open Show 2006, Nottingham, UK
(July 27 to August 26, 2006)


artists: Alison Balance, Helen Barff, Emma Bolland, Tomas Chaffe, Chris Clarke, Sofia Dahlgren, Nigel Grimmer, Candice Jacobs, Natinder Manak, Claire McArdle, Jane Mellor, Ben Rivers, Mika Sembogi, Kaori Shiota, Matthew Smith, Alexander Stevenson

For this exhibition, I'll be showing De-Composition (Luigi Russolo), 2006, a tape recording removed from its cassette and stuffed inside a plastic case. This tape carries a recorded reading of Luigi Russolo's essay 'The Art of Noises', in which the author and futurist proposes the expansion of the musical field to incorporate incidental noise, background static, the din of factories and machines, and "all those [noises] that can be made by the mouth of man without resorting to speaking or singing." This reading was recorded on June 2nd, 2006.