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My article ‘Lukas Kühne’s Tvísöngur: Sculpture for a Concrete Voice’ has now been published by Divergence Press, Centre for Research in New Music (CeReNem), University of Huddersfield. Thank you to Patrick Valiquet. This is the first output of my research in Seyðisfjörður, Northeast Iceland, thanks to the Henry Moore Foundation research grant. http://divergencepress.net/2024/08/06/lukas-kuhnes-tvisongur-sculpture-for-a-concrete-uncompressed-voice/
Photo: Olivia Louvel
Last night, I was awarded with LOL the Ivor Novello Award for Best Sound Art at The Ivors Classical Awards!
The jury remarked: “LOL is a provocative, disruptive and impactful work, deftly constructed with humour”.
The award was presented by interdisciplinary composer and audio visual artist Esmeralda Conde Ruiz.
I am very grateful to the jury, to the Ivors Academy, to Kersten Glandien, artistic director of Sound Art Brighton, and to the Auxiliary who commissioned the work (directors Anna Byrne, Kyp Kyprianou, and Liam Slevin).
LOL is a site-specific sonic intervention delivered through the public address system of Middlesbrough’s CCTV surveillance network, reflecting the current state of political affairs in Britain. On dedicated sites in the centre of town, passers-by heard political slogans, and news headlines read by the AI voice ‘Kate’.
LOL was broadcast at specific times over four days 22-25 September 2022.
You can watch an excerpt of LOL on Vimeo
THANK YOU. MERCI.
Photography credit Hogan Media / Shutterstock
