Name: LC 13#: For Long Distance Lovers
Start: 2024-05-15T19:00:00+01:00
Location: The Rose Hill

“The epoch of nonsense, our epoch, can begin.” Friedrich A. Kittler
In this edition of Listen Club, Ed Baxter will audition a range of works which bring the listener impossibly close to faraway beings and which occupy the uncanny space between our interior and exterior perception.
Two strangers fall in love in a modernist romance of telecommunications. A wrinkled voice walks a performative tightrope traversing consciousness itself. Vocaloids slavishly recount the history of radio via an angelic message to expectant shepherds. A Scream Hot Line opens for people to vent. A rock climber reveals the source of a secret high. A baby cries. And 500 primary school children realise a Chinese Whisper. Come with us - up, down, in and out of the radio art cosmos!
About the curator: Ed Baxter is a radio artist and associate lecturer at the London College of Communication, where he teaches Sound Art. He was the co-founder, with Phil England, of Resonance FM and stepped down from his role as its CEO this year. With Chris Weaver he won a BASCA “Composer of the Year” award in 2103 for the audio element of NVA’s “Speed of Light” at Edinburgh International Festival. He has also been a concert and festival producer, bookseller, typesetter, publisher, script writer, installation artist, and co-editor of the Works of Thomas De Quincey.
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Listen Club is about listening together is in the same space, with the possibility of sharing impressions and casual discussion afterwards. Listen Club hopes to provide a counterpoint to the quick paced personal consumption of music with a more patient shared experience; a deep listen, together, in order to foster community.
A programme of unusual sound-works, soundscape composition, and music from the present and the past, chosen by Sound Art Brighton artists and invited guests. Curators will guide the experience - briefly discussing the details of the selections and providing background on the music and artists chosen. We aim to present a variety of styles and listening experiences that may include long duration singular sound works to a series of work on a particular theme.
On average we will listen together for 45min to an hour, with time for discussion and conversation afterwards.
Tickets are free but please use the link to book below!