Disinformation on Electromagnetic Noise for "Raw TV"

Sound artist Joe Banks interviewed for Carlton TV music programme "Raw TV", broadcast 20 August 1999. The interview relates to recordings of (usually VLF band) electromagnetic (radio) noise produced by live mains electricity, electric storms, the sun, VLF "whistlers", domestic appliances, IT technology, industrial and transport hardware, railway and metro systems etc, produced by Disinformation and released (by the record company Ash International) on CD and LP between 1996 and 1999 - described here as "a really Sci-Fi form of wildlife recording". The film features an extract from "National Grid" remixed by Bruce Gilbert from Wire (from the "Antiphony" double CD published in 1997) with pylon footage by Barry Hale... "strangely comforting"!

These ideas had a huge (and almost totally unacknowledged) influence on many art projects after being published by Disinformation, notably on "Electrical Walks" by Christina Kubisch (who exhibited alongside Disinformation in "Sonic Boom" at London's Hayward Gallery). The demonstration given in this interview - using a VLF antenna to listen to magnetic fields produced by (in this case) computer / TV monitors and live mains electricity, illustrates the electromagnetic induction principle used in "Electrical Walks", and is very similar to the demo given during the Disinformation lecture at London's Lux Cinema on 9 Dec 1998 (on the same bill as Robin Rimbaud / Scanner, in an event organised by The Wire magazine).

The CD mentioned towards the end of the clip was released as "Sense Data and Perception", and the exhibit referred to was "Artificial Lightning" (later retitled "The Origin of Painting") - seen by 36,000 people in "Sonic Boom" at London's Hayward Gallery, and described by Sian Ede (Arts Director of The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation) as "way and ahead the best piece in Sonic Boom". Album notes describing the ideas explored by the Disinformation "R&D" CD in 1996 can be found here...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/disinfo/2610422174/

This interview also discusses the Disinformation Sound Mirrors projects... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsR3qyJDk0c

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[bakkerrich1979]

its noise...aka interference....not music you douche

[sim3otto]

Cocteau Twins... HAHA! No Rob Zombie lookalike there.

[BobForehead]

¡w00t! thnx!

[StarsOnESP]

Good grief, that's Joe Banks? He looks like he wandered out of a Cocteau Twins fan club circa 1987. :-) Thanks for the video!

[vikingheads]

ive seen DISINFORMATION at gluerooms new X,great stuff