AN OVERLOADED TRANSMISSION FROM A QUASI-PERSONAL STELLAR SOURCE
29 July–1 August 2010
A live, long form radio broadcast from Sound Threshold in collaboration with Resonance 104.4fm with a new installed work by William Furlong.
Artist William Furlong (left) and Resonance 104.4 FM's Richard Thomas in the Hand at Flat Time Ho.
Live broadcast - 1 August 6.30 pm to 12 midnight Resonance 104.4fm
A three-day event of conversations, readings and site interventions exploring Flat Time House as a broadcast unit and meeting place, extended in time.
With the participation of Adam and Jonathan Bohman, Daniela Cascella, Lucia Farinati, William Furlong, Ken Hollings, Elisa Kay, Roberta Kravitz, Noa Latham, Richard Thomas, Athanasios Velios, Patrick Wildgust and Mark Peter Wright.
For An overloaded transmission... artists, writers, academics, practitioners, musicians and archivists have been invited to inhabit Flat Time House and discuss distinct notions of time in their various practices. Prompted by John Latham's 1975 essay Time-Base and Determination in Events and his 'Time-Base Theory', An overloaded transmission... will respond to the conceptual structure of Flat Time House as a living object and the event as a transmission. The relationship between archive, time and sound embodied by Latham's archive will be looked at, as well as concepts of time that bring together literature, art, music and science.
In Latham's 1975 essay, he describes how the obscure literary style of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake allows the work to function, portraying the book as a 'quasi-personal stellar source'. In response, each room and part of Flat Time House will be used for recording conversation on site and broadcast on Resonance 104.4fm. In addition, Sound Threshold have specially commissioned two new audio-event pieces: Not Speaking the Language, an outdoor sound installation by artist William Furlong with the recorded voice of John Latham and, Re-Ear a new composition by sonic artist Mark Peter Wright using recordings before and during the event, mixed and played live with the conversations.
Sound Threshold is a no-profit organisation based in London www.soundthreshold.org
With the kind support of Sound and Music, Flat Time House, ICR Distribution, Sonic Studios
William Furlong Not Speaking the Language (2010) Outdoor sound installation.
Patrick Wildgust, Curator of Shandy Hall, Laurence Sterne's home at the time he wrote Tristram Shandy, in the garden of Flat Time House with a large horned caterpillar.
Sound Threshold Curators Daniella Cascella (left) and Lucia Farinati (right) in the Hand at Flat Time Ho.