"Channelling" is a kinetic sound performance from British environmental sound artist Simon Whetham that utilises various components salvaged from discarded and obsolete consumer technology, reanimating them by piping amplified sound through them. The motors and mechanisms respond to these sound impulses in erratic and unpredictable ways. The actions of, and emanations from, the devices are subsequently amplified.
"An array or swarm of vitalities, intertwined, of non human powers which transit channels... Cracks, leaks, turbulences. Frictions, rebounds, scrapes. Ignitions, drags, silent intermissions... How much in common do we have the human and the non-human. How much shared vitality...
From the darkness of the macrobial soil or an intertidal zone, to the interior of a tubular structure, the similar search: the porous and the minute, the precarious taking an unusual power. Is there any allusion to the high instability caused by consumption? A sonic reflection on the transversality of the vital where conflicts, confrontations, catastrophes and incidents articulate a microworld?" (Audiocrackle).
Ltd x 300 copies in a digipak.
SIMON WHETHAM - 'Channelling' CD
- Record Label: Flag Day Recordings
- Genre: Experimental / Electroacoustic
- Availability: In Stock
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£12.00
Tags: SIMON WHETHAM, Channelling, Flag Day Recordings, Experimental, Electroacoustic

