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Michael Day - I Hear You Singing In The Wire

I Hear You Singing In The Wire was made for an audio screening on the subject of “otherliness”, exploring ideas of difference and sameness, negation and opposition. The piece consists of Glen Campbell’s version of Wichita Lineman played through a sequence of reverb filters. In producing the piece, I was interested in what remains when sound is removed from a space, and how the remaindered leftovers of a sound can indicate both absence and presence.

Reverberation occurs when sound waves persist in spaces after the removal of the original sound source. Sound waves reflect off surfaces, each time losing some of their energy and decreasing in amplitude. As imperfections in the waveforms are duplicated and added to at each point of reflection, this process quickly leads to a degradation of the waveform that renders it unrecognisable from the original. Reverberation caused by a removed sound source brings to mind the idea of an unreachable other, much as the Wichita Lineman hallucinates the voice of an absent lover in the wires.

Michael Day is contemporary artist based in Sheffield, and a member of the Furlough curatorial platform. I Hear You Singing In The Wire featured in the Host Artist Group's Otherliness compilation.

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Cruel Cassette - Study #2

Study #3 :

Every reference you make excludes somebody. The finer the reference, the more you exclude. Have a heart: Refer only to things that everyone knows about. Like Eliot.

soundcloud.com/cruel-cassette

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Jonathan Cores - An Afternoon Without Me

Sometimes I think of that place we would sit and silently pretend there would be no more weeks to begin, only time flitted away looking out across that river like it was some vast ocean, tracing perfect hearts and circles in the grass, hoping for the same.

I picture that place in my mind.

I know I was there: when she glances up, someone is there to catch it. But when I look now, I can only see the present, both of my mind's representation, and that place itself: I have never been back. And she sits there alone, without anyone, waiting, possibly. Maybe for me, maybe for someone else - she hasn't said, and I haven't.

Jonathan Cores is a sound artist and writer based in London, and specifically, more often than not, in Dose Espresso.