Future Projects
SHADOWBOXING
We've been invited to contribute to Sean Dockray's radio timecapsule project for an uncertain audience in the year 2021.
Part of SHADOWBOXING 18 March - 3 April 2011
Royal College of Art
Auditory Learning (working title)
We're currently developing a film project with support from FLAMIN and Arts Council England
Building on the pilot project The Brilliant and the Dark, Auditory Learning transposes tactics borrowed from commercial music video production and musical cinema to reanimate out-of-copyright music recordings (1920s to 1940s jazz, blues, folk, and music hall). Through re-enactment, lip-synching, and choreography, the film weaves together musical vignettes excavated from public domain recordings.
This hauntological experiment explores the politics of the beginnings of the recording industry at a time when emerging models of peer-to-peer distribution and collaborative production are urgently problematizing established notions around the authorship, ownership and distribution of culture.
The project will announce the release of newly copyright-expired work into the public domain and will be copyleft licensed – so, like its public domain sources remains free for distribution and reuse in the future.
