Yan White: Sound

Guernica round table



I am curating a performance (date tba) for David Toop’s Unknown Devices / Laptop Orchestra group in association with CRiSAP, to take place around the large round table at Whitechapel gallery (as part of the Guernica installation)

There will be 15 musicians, representing each of the 15 nations of the United Nations Security Council seated around Goshca Macuga’s oak table, which is modeled on the one found in the UN headquarters.

The material chosen by each performer will be based on research of the nation to be represented and found sounds relating to the wider issues presented by the installation.

Unknown Devices in the Atrium, LCC

“LMC was one of the major forces in the development of improvised music and sonic arts. LMC history is particularly richly textured, not only because it contains important evidence (audible, visual and textual) of early improvised music and sonic arts activity in the UK, but also because it intersects with other initiatives of self-determination, collective politics and critical art practice in the 1970s, such as radical publishing, feminism, structural film, dance, performance art, and sonic ecology, along with organisations like Music for Socialism and the post-punk explosion of independent record companies and promoters.” – David Toop

Unknown Devices: the Laptop Orchestra with David Toop. 10 min film excerpt from 30 min performance at CRISAP, LCC London in May 2009. Performed for the opening of Sound Traces, an exhibition of the London Musicians’ Collective legacy. Filmed and edited by Mika Kioussis

Watch out for me punishing my guitar about halfway through the video!

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