UNIVERSAL EAR

UNIVERSAL EAR is a lost adventure serial charting Harley Byrne’s ongoing mission: to capture and make available for download “all the world’s music, ever.” Each episode sees Byrne travel to another time and place, where his efforts to find and record humanity’s strangest musics are hindered by his arch-enemy, Being, mysterious mistress of disguise. We at L’Institute Zoom are attempting to reconstruct the missing films, as well as Byrne’s real-life memoirs from which the serial is adapted. The full backstory can be read here. The Tumblr feed is formed of UNIVERSAL EAR news and artefacts, and a free association of the project’s aesthetic/thematic correlates. Receive occasional UNIVERSAL EAR news and insights by email:

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UNIVERSAL EAR: The Curse of the Phantom Tympanum. Official trailer.

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The latest episode of UNIVERSAL EAR is being serialized on Instagram - and the latest episode of that episode is the hottest yet.

Follow us as we edge towards a climax in virtual reality or, worse, real reality.

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With the reopening of venues, a backlog of unfulfilled UNIVERSAL EAR bookings is unleashed.

To be precise, two (2) screenings of the latest episode, The Curse of the Phantom Tympanum, will take place next weekend. One in Istanbul, Turkey, and the other in Marseille, France.

TURKEY!!

EVENT: UNIVERSAL EAR: The Curse of the Phantom Tympanum at

Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival

PROGRAM: Competition: Fresh Air 2

WHERE: Pera Museum, Asmalı Mescit, Meşrutiyet Cd. No:65,

34430 Beyoğlu/İstanbul, Turkey

WHEN: Friday 19th November, 2021, 14:00

COST: 25 TL/10 TL

FRANCE!!

EVENT: UNIVERSAL EAR: The Curse of the Phantom Tympanum

at 4th Marseille Underground Film & Music Festival

PROGRAM: Fréquences visuelles

WHERE: Videodrome 2, 49 Cr Julien,13006 Marseille, France

WHEN: Sunday 21st November, 2021, 19:00

COST: Free with €5 membership to Videodrome 2 cinematheque.

NOTES: Facebook Event

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UNIVERSAL EAR: The Curse of the Phantom Tympanum plays as part of a reprise of the Kinoskop International Festival of Analogue Experimental Cinema and Audio-visual Performance in Niš this weekend.

EVENT: UNIVERSAL EAR: The Curse of the Phantom Tympanum at Niš Cultural Centre 

PROGRAM: Kinoskop: Apsurd, pank & subverzije (Absurd, Punks & Subversives) 

WHERE: Niški kulturni centar, Small Hall, Stanoja Bunuševca, 18000 Niš, Serbia 

WHEN: Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th June, 2021

COST: Enquire at venue

NOTES: Please refer to Kinoskop's Facebook presence for further information & updates.

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You know, Bowie conceived Ziggy Stardust less than a mile from here. Also, if you lost this boot, it's opposite Vanbrugh Castle. #boot #glam #Bowie #vanbrugh #GreenwichPark (at Greenwich Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKpTnZgl68g/?igshid=91xldojl38u2

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We may be based in a #timetravel hotspot, but this is hardly #12Monkeys material. #virus #god #great (at Greenwich Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/CI3_hSlF-Fq/?igshid=d1zu0d1pmm8r

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Discovered the #GPOFilmUnit was based in our new neck of the woods. Like finding you've accidentally moved to Mecca. (at Royal Greenwich - London) https://www.instagram.com/p/CIWOYnEFcA7/?igshid=2nu48tab5e6q

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The Fishing Girls Music Department. Reads like more than just a band that performed on the fisheries agency's promotional media. Strategy? Espionage? Musicbioaquatic experimentation? If anyone knows, you can contact us confidentially. #TheFishingGirlsMusicDepartment #Okayu #enka #alltheworldsmusicever https://www.instagram.com/p/CFOmOttl_rd/?igshid=1i2yz7iqs3u66

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Was about to impulse buy some bs overpriced coffee table book about video game cities when I remembered I'd still not acquired a copy of @pissboxer_ 's bs reasonably priced toilet book about etc etc #Perec #gtaonline etc etc. Thanks to @studio_operative for saving me space on the coffee table we don't even have. (at Greenwich, London, England, UK) https://www.instagram.com/p/CD1KuuKFtpM/?igshid=z30re91mvomb

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Trailer for the latest episode of UNIVERSAL EAR, filmed on Super-8 with live action holograms and cardboard scenery, at great emotional cost.

Time-travelling record producer Harley Byrne crash-lands in a virtual reality heritage theme park in 22nd-century France. Corrupt holograms, cyborg saints, and sentient statues haunt an absurdist Super-8 universe, digitally re-colourized for your pleasure!

Read all about it here: https://alltheworldsmusicever.com/tympanum

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Social distance rhythm section on some Terrence Malick bs. #alltheworldsmusicever #percussion #parklife #GreenwichPark #magichour (at Greenwich Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/CB_aYy_FAV1/?igshid=1moxxq1fu6c5d

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Saturday #Cugat. (at Royal Greenwich - London) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBX9kwxFum1/?igshid=1v3bfiy2lckxc

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There's something very #Ballardian about this #Blackheath garden piano now that humankind is all gone. Etude for a disinherited species. #alltheworldsmusicever #piano #postapocalyptic (at Royal Greenwich - London) https://www.instagram.com/p/CA5BavTllYT/?igshid=nxtgjwh59q34

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#SleepingBeauty spotted on #Blackheath. #alltheworldsmusicever #LP #foundmusic #readersdigest (at Royal Greenwich - London) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAnufqSFd18/?igshid=1pwnh5kmi774l

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Last week marked 10 years since the #Lumpenbal that launched the UNIVERSAL EAR project: a rag ball attended by #Manchester's glue-and-glitterati, toting unwanted objects for us to upcycle for the first episodes of our infinite #timetravel serial. . Guests - dressed as wanderers, outcasts, and ruined millionaires - were invited for screen tests made by the Institute's co-founder and conduit, Mick Sugden. Over the next few days we'll share them here, silent, iconic, a journey through time... whatever became of Manchester's threadbare underground? #ragball #sciencefiction #recordproducer #artist #filmdirector (at Nexus Art Café) https://www.instagram.com/p/CASi2M2FgCg/?igshid=1ix901mux3t2s