[node-l] "Horatio Oratorio"

[douglas benford]

on THIS WEEK:

"Horatio Oratorio"

A concert & sound installation by Aleksander Kolkowski
aka Recording Angels with Federico Reuben - live electronics,
& Sebastian Lexer - sound diffusion

ALEKSANDER KOLKOWSKI
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksander_Kolkowski>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksander_Kolkowski

FEDERICO REUBEN
<http://www.myspace.com/freuben>http://www.myspace.com/freuben

SEBASTIAN LEXER
http://incalcando.com/sl/

"There are more things in heaven and earth Horatio, than are
dreamt of in our philosophy...I am a graphophone and my mother
was a phonograph."

Charles Tainter's first recorded words on his newly developed
wax cylinder Graphophone, the successor to Thomas Alva Edison's
tinfoil Phonograph, in 1881.

Horatio Oratorio is an audio-visual exploration through the early history
of recorded sound. It uses as it's libretto, the first recorded utterances
transcribed onto metal and wax and reproduced by styli, diaphragms
and horns. The era of recorded sound as material object, whether
cylinder, disc, wire, magnetic tape or CD, has been overtaken by the
rise of the digital file. Horatio Oratorio sings of the transformation of
sound into object and it's return into the ether.

The earliest sound reproducing technologies and rare mechanical-acoustic
string instruments are here combined with vintage and custom-made
electronics and state-of-the-art digital sound transformation in a unique
liaison between the contemporary and the obsolete.

A multitude of antique wax cylinder phonographs, gramophones, stroh
violins and a cornucopia of ornate horns adorn the performance space
and are played or manually operated during the concert, using specially
made wax cylinder and disc recordings. These include recreations of
some of the earliest speech and music transcriptions known to exist.

The sound installation, featuring the machines and suspended
horns will run autonomously.

Information: <contact at recording-angels.info>

Co-produced by Sonic Arts Network's EXPO
and the PRSF Live Connections.

In association with Sprawl

A Wire-supported event .
<http://www.thewire.co.uk>http://www.thewire.co.uk

performances: Thurs. 10th & Fri. 11th July, 2008.
*Friday event closes with a party and 78rpm DJing session in the Arena*

Installation opens at 6pm, Performances start at 8pm.
Installation continues 16th - 19th July, 6pm - 12am  (Sat.19th from 8pm).
NB closed Sun./Mon./Tues.

Tickets:
Day membership is £5 on Wed. & thurs. & £10 on Fri. & Sat.

The Arena
Shunt Vaults,
Joiner Street,
London Bridge SE1.
(entrance inside London Bridge tube)
<http://www.shunt.co.uk>http://www.shunt.co.uk

funded by PRSF Live Connections
from

SPRAWL
http://www.sprawl.org.uk
E-MAIL <sprawl at benfo.demon.co.uk>
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