Birmingham
Frequencies is a record of an event which took place in oct 97, within the
sublime circular rhythms of birmingham's modern architectural classic -the
Rotunda.The second best loved structure in Birmingham after King Kong.
On
this night,two hundred & fifty people went up into the Rotunda for the
first time,to hear a soundtrack by geir jenssen & bobby bird,made with
recordings taken from around Birmingham over the previous week. Visual impressions
were also commissioned & projected on to the inner curve of the polo mint
shaped room.
The
event was a followup/return invitation to an event two years previously, when
Hia & Biosphere collaborated in a live concert overlooking Tromso, Norway
as part of the polar music festival, a performance subsequently released as
Polar Sequences.
As
the the title implies, audio/visual data was captured from various locations
around the city :a sunny day in the park,a night time trip down the canal,a
visit to a moseley flat...transmuted into an unusually warm & mesmeric
impression of birmingham
The
CD contains an additional interactive CD Rom track for mac/pc developed after
the event using sounds and images from the night.
CD
48.20 min
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hill:gas street basin:narrowboat:the rotunda:augusta rd-
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