HENRY (The Methods Of Ethics)

Golau Glau are an anonymous group of artists, photographers and musicians who collectively create silverpop. 'HENRY (The Methods of Ethics)' explores the history and future of ethical hedonism through a mixture of music, visuals, created and found sounds and treated field recordings.

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HENRY is finally available on Vimeo in full. A sound piece with visuals, rather than a video.

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HENRY in Sheffield again

'HENRY' will be making an appearance at the Borderline Ballardian exhibition in Sheffield in July 2012.

Borderline Ballardian 

Group art exhibition

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C.A.D.S. – 7 Smithfield, Sheffield

Date: Friday 6th July – 18th July 2012

Open night Friday 6th – 6pm

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'HENRY' returns to his spiritual home of Beacons festival this summer.

Golau Glau at Beacons

Check this website from your phone at the festival and more interventions will become apparent.

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'HENRY' will be shown at Bank Street Arts as part of Pandemic in Sheffield, which runs for a week from 5th November. Details if we get them.

He can also be found at Test Space in Leeds as part of our exhibition from 10th-13th November.

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We have had word from the organisers that Beacons festival has been cancelled due to adverse weather and flooding of the site.

There will be announcements later on, we are told, and refunds will begin next week. We are deeply saddened by this news. 'HENRY' was conceived and created especially for the festival, our first major sonic art work. We will update this site when we have more news and maybe 'HENRY' will be installed somewhere else at a later date.

GOLAU GLAU

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Eudemonics/Naked Space

Companion piece to 'HENRY (The Methods Of Ethics)' - a 42min sonic art installation by Golau Glau for Beacons festival. This track and another tune can be heard near the festival site using the Broadcastr GPS app for Android and iPhone. The installation itself appears at the festival. More information about HENRY: http://henryethics.tumblr.com

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The Experience Machine

Companion piece to 'HENRY (The Methods Of Ethics)' - a 42min sonic art installation by Golau Glau for Beacons festival. This track and another tune can be heard near the festival site using the Broadcastr GPS app for Android and iPhone. The installation itself appears at the festival. More information about HENRY: http://henryethics.tumblr.com

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'HENRY...' is a sound installation by GOLAU GLAU. This is a choppy-chirpy-cheap trailer to publicise the piece at Beacons festival. greetingsfrombeacons.com henryethics.tumblr.com golauglau.wordpress.com The festival takes place from 11th-14th August 2011 at Heslaker Farm near Skipton.

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Research

The bibliography provided on this website shows some of the research (beyond physical visits, conversations and sound explorations) employed when creating 'HENRY'. We hope it will also form a starting point for others' explorations into the areas explored by the piece. HTML and PDF versions of Sidgwick's original text are widely available. We particularly recommend this HTML version - however, it is not the most readable of books.

We also watched and listened to hours of TV and radio documentaries, live coverage and YouTube footage.

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Why we decided to create 'HENRY (The Methods Of Ethics)'

Golau Glau have long been interested in social history and the areas where political and social change intersect with popular culture.

When creating this piece for Beacons, we wished to reflect our own interests and also build something relevant to the festival itself. We were drawn to Henry Sidgwick because he was born in Skipton - the nearest town to the festival site - and because hedonism and ethics are a big part of festival and party culture. We also admire Sidgwick for his commitment to the higher education of women.

Readings from Sidgwick's best-known work, 'The Methods of Ethics', form the basis of a large section of 'HENRY' and Henry pops up elsewhere in the work. The rest of the piece explores the past, present and future of ethical hedonism and the party. The art of the protest and social, cultural and political change all form part of the work.

'HENRY' is primarily a sonic work; however, visuals have been supplied to suit and support its installation on the festival site. Music, field recordings, found recordings, readings and treated sound help to form a strong, compelling narrative.

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Introduction

Golau Glau are an anonymous group of artists, photographers and musicians who collectively create silverpop.

They have created 'HENRY (The Methods of Ethics)' specifically for Beacons festival and explore the history and future of ethical hedonism through a mixture of music, visuals, created and found sounds and treated field recordings.

Henry Sidgwick (born in Skipton) developed the idea of ethical hedonism, where pleasure is the highest good and every action should be taken to maximise pleasure for the self (egoistic hedonism), but with due regard for the pleasure of others (universalistic hedonism).

How far do Beacon attendees stray from Sidgwick's template and how far are modern festivals from the ideals of early raves and peace festivals - for the good of the party…or for the good of the self alone? 

Golau Glau's first exhibition takes place at Test Space Leeds from 10-13 November 2011. Their website is here and their Twitter is @golauglau