Noise and Difference

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Noise and Difference by Shannon O'Neill was published to accompany the touring work In a Few Seconds Across the Ocean by Ian Andrews.

In a Few Seconds ... refers to, and interrogates a number of references from 20th century art that might broadly be described as “a poetics of radio (and noise)” ranging from the Futurist poetry of Marinetti, Klebnikov to Karlheinz Stockhausen’s 1966 work Hymnen: anthems for electronic and concrete sounds (which provides the source of the title). The work utilises a number of generative techniques (random number generation, permutative structures, and graphics/sound interaction) to produce aleatory music, graphics and text. The piece plays continuously in a loop that never repeats in the same way twice. The generative structure is designed to create a multi-channel sound environment where the randomisation of the process distributes the different sound elements throughout the space.

In a Few Seconds ... was part of our 2006 d/tour program.

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