Disinformation interviewed by Hari Kunzru

Sound artist Joe Banks, from the art project Disinformation, interviewed by Hari Kunzru for the Sky TV arts programme "The Lounge" in 1999. The interview relates to recordings of usually VLF band electromagnetic / radio noise produced by live mains electricity, the sun, lightning, VLF "whistlers", domestic appliances, IT technology and industrial 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 as "electronic wildlife recording".

These ideas had a huge (and almost totally unacknowledged) influence on many artists and art projects soon after being pioneered by Disinformation, notably on "Electrical Walks" by Christina Kubisch (who exhibited alongside Disinformation in "Sonic Boom" at London's Hayward Gallery).

An interview demonstrating the electromagnetic induction principle used in "Electrical Walks" can be seen here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g6PcLEx6bs

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/

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[tobybenedetto]

ha ha how young!

[Simonomates]

"Poet of Noise".