THRIVING PERMANCENCE OF SOUND

The third year talk was dead insightful, exhibitions at Moonfish on 25th Feb, projections at Sand Bar
a 24 hour sonic improv performance at islington mill on 24th April see
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loads of other artists exhibiting too.He talked a great deal about long sound pieces that are continual like this sonic sculpture in Kent.The hole is a 7 meter deep, 2.4 meter diameter shaft, constructed from concrete rings. The bottom 2 meters are waterproofed to allow a pool to form.The sculpture relise heavily on water flow, so there is a pond on the surface that acts as a reservoir.The water flows through a grates and into the hole and the sound is amplified by a steel trumpet.'If you look carefully through the slits in the cover in some places you can see a wire mesh. Below the mesh are trays of gravel that break up the flow and cause drips to form in an unpredictable manner.If you sprinkle water from a bottle onto these areas you’ll hear an initial flurry of sound followed by a period of more measured and melodic music.
Its in Kingswood near Challock which is ten minutes away from my Aunty Fi's house.I'm gonna visit in Summer.
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The idea of the permanent sound reminds me of a blog i stumbled up on ages ago on 'Stone Tape Theory on Language Log by Benjamin Zimmer.Something that largely been disproved by the scientific community, its origins lay in Charles Babbage's Ninth Bridgewater Treatise written in 1832 and his theories into the memory of molecules around us, giving permanence to every sound.It is also very strangely linked to 'video killed the radio star' by The Buggles the first video ever shown on MTV and also been credited as a explanation for ghostly aparitions.



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