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AV FESTIVAL 12: JEM FINER – SLOWPLAYER

Exhibition runs 1 March – 31 March 2012
Opening hours 12 – 6pm Monday – Saturday
Part of 24-Hour Festival Launch: Friday 2 March 9am-3pm

 

 

At extreme slow speeds the spin of a record player is reduced to a glacial crawl, the record to seismic rumbling. A beat may last a minute, and the tiny slices of silence between them become ambient voids.

The record player becomes an object of contemplation, a meditation on the passing of time, gathering dust, entropic.

On each day of the Festival from 1 – 31 March a different record is played, from Ravel to The Sex Pistols to Ornette Coleman, with the turntables r.p.m slowed down to the length of the gallery opening hours, 12-6pm. With this work artist and musician Jem Finer continues his interest in long-durational processes and extremes of scale.

The playlist includes the below titles, plus new additions by the artist:

Ital Dub : Augustus Pablo : LP
Led Zeppelin II : Led Zeppelin : LP
Brave New World : Fokus : 12 inch single
Dropout Boogie : Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band : LP
Dragon Dance : Drunken Masters : 12 inch single
Music and Effects for Home Movies : BBC Sound Effects record : LP
Japan ; Traditional Vocal and Instrumental Music : Ensemble Nipponia : LP
My Definition of a Boombastic Jazz Style : Dream Warriors : 12 inch single
Tomorrow is the Question : Ornette Coleman : LP
Bali; Gamelan Music from Sebatu : Orchestra Gong Kebyar : LP
Never Mind The Bollocks Here’s The Sex Pistols : The Sex Pistols : LP
Hup – Two – Sun – She GO RUSTIX ! : Tokyo Skunx : LP
Concerto in D Major for the Left Hand for Piano and Orchestra : Ravel : LP

Curated by AV Festival.

 

Special Event
Jem Finer: Slowplayer Live Mix
Sat 3 March, 12-6pm, FREE

Bring along your own vinyl records and hear them played live by the artist on his specially adapted slow record player, within the Slowplayer exhibition.

Jem Finer is an artist, musician and composer. Since studying computer science in the 1970s, he has worked in a variety of fields, including photography, film, music and installation, and was one of the founding members of The Pogues. One of his most famous works is the installation Longplayer commissioned by Artangel in 2000, a computer generated composition designed to play for 1000 years.

 

 

 

Part of AV Festival 12: As Slow As Possible

International Festival of Art, Technology, Music and Film
1 – 31 March 2012
Newcastle, Gateshead, Middlesbrough, Sunderland
www.avfestival.co.uk