Disinformation vs Strange Attractor "National Grid" 2

Disinformation and Strange Attractor perform "National Grid" with live mains and static electricity at Cargo nightclub, Hoxton, London, UK, 17 February 2005. "National Grid" was first performed in 1996. Special thanks to Magz Hall. "You are Hear" benefit concert for Resonance FM. For more details see text and video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B13-09K-Ubc

"The ear, the organ of fear, could have evolved as greatly as it has only in the night and twilight of obscure caves and woods, in accordance with the mode of life in the age of timidity, that is to say the longest human age there has ever been... That is how music acquired the character of an art of night and twilight." Friedrich Nietzsche "Daybreak" 1881

This version of "National Grid" was first performed at The Royal Institution, alongside presentations by writers Sadie Plant, Ken Hollings and Prof Steven Connor (of Birkbeck and The London Consortium), Graham Massey (of 808 State) and Howard Walmsley, and sound artist Jo Thomas. The Royal Institution event was programmed by writer and artist Tom McCarthy (of The International Necronautical Society), and included (amongst others) inventor and artist Tim Hunkin and historian-of-science Patricia Fara in the audience. The Cargo show also featured Tetine (hey y'all - visible in the video), Cursor Miner and Ommm, with DJs Jonny Trunk, Mr Psyche and Jim Backhouse. The Westbourne Studios show also featured presentations by artists Alex Baker, Jordan Baseman, Alexander Costello, Phil Coy, Shezad Dawood, Andrew Dodds, Maria Fusco, Lizzie Hughes, Thorsten Knaub, Susan Pui San Lok, The People Speak, Michael Pinsky, Thomson & Craighead and Mark Titchner. The Bad Timing event at The Junction in Cambridge also featured Bugbrand Audio and Andrew Coleman. The original performance version of "National Grid" premiered at a Disobey club night, organised by Blast First Records in 1996, which also featured music by DJ Beekeeper (aka Bruce Gilbert from the band Wire) and a reading by Bill Drummond of The KLF, and which included (amongst many others) writer Kathy Acker in the audience. Other performance versions of "National Grid" were performed alongside composer Nic Collins and sound artist Janek Schaefer at Berlin's Volksbühne and Karlsruhe's ZKM, and alongside Add N to (X) at Disinformation's nuclear bunker event near Anstruther, Scotland.

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