Dirty Electronics & Tim Shaw

Beyond The Loudspeaker

— Performance-installation
Thursday, 24 Sept 20:00 / MX

Beyond the Loudspeaker is a series of performance-installations exploring ways to produce electronic sound without the use of a conventional loudspeaker.

Almost all electronic music relies on loudspeakers for its performance or production. This project explores alternative methods of sound creation — high-voltage sparks, plasma speakers, transducers, and electromechanical devices that excite objects to summon sound — alongside the exploitation of architectural features and acoustic characteristics of the performance space: electricity made audible, sound given body.

John Richards explores Dirty Electronics, focusing on shared experiences, social interaction and critical making. He is concerned with the performance of large-group electronic music and DIY electronics, and he has come to consider these activities as a holistic action. It is a fluid, live practice associated with the ideas of workshop-installation and performance-installation. His work moves between music, performance art, electronics, and graphic design and is transdisciplinary as well as having a socio-political dimension. He has also written numerous texts on DIY practices, performance of electronic music, and object-orientated and material approaches in relation to sound art.

dirtyelectronics.org
instagram.com/dirtyelectronics

Tim Shaw is an artist and researcher whose practice explores sound, light, communication media and the complex relationships between technology, environments and perception. Working across performance, installation and site-responsive interventions, his practice encompasses environmental sound art, digital media, media archaeology, walking practices and experimental forms of listening. Shaw’s work has been presented internationally in museums, galleries, festivals and unconventional environments including forests, caves, warehouses and remote landscapes. Collaboration is central to his practice, with projects developed alongside researchers and practitioners from fields including musicology, medical science, anthropology, geology, architecture and astrophysics.

tim-shaw.info
instagram.com/tim4shaw