Datamosh
I ran into Datamosh‘s Paul Jones at an improvistion workshop organised by Heike Roms and ran by Angahard Davies. The session came alive when John started occupying the space and boundaries of the room, stones hurled/rolled dangeroulsy around, much scraping too. So it’s with pleasure and trepidation that I present you-next saturday-with a Datamosh performance. Expect the unexpeted…
For Listen to the Voice of Fire DATAMOSH (Guy Mayman & Paul R Jones) will produce an analogue …trance scape through the use of Korg monotron synthesizers, toy drum machines and found cassette tape recordings. The performance includes a portable sculpture, enclosing amplification equipment. The mobility of this sculpture is key as it would be our intention to move the work around the studio/gallery environment. Important reference points for DATAMOSH while devising this proposal are: • Mobile sound systems of the type used in the Notting Hill Carnival • Mikoshi: Japanese mobile shrines where members of the local community become involved in collective ecstatic celebration • Music Concrete and its use in utopian performance, e.g. The Liverpool Mass by Pierre Henry Links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsC_ak-Enro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_5OxJWnvj8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbUWazmvCW0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFJVqrF0qEM http://datamosh8.wixsite.com/datamosh About DATAMOSH As well as experimental sound installations, DATAMOSH have developed gallery exhibitions and several events for festivals, incorporating large scale projections, moving sculptures and choreographed movement. Their collaboration came about when artists Paul R Jones and Guy Mayman discovered a large archive of 35mm slides, audio cassettes and A4 booklets earmarked for destruction at the Art School where they were working. This material was no longer wanted because of a perception it was rendered obsolete by the digital technology. Mayman and Jones are fascinated by the hallucinogenic potential of everyday experiences. Their ongoing project DATAMOSH is a site of excavation and construction, awakening the analogue spectre of the recent past. It re-animates obsolete technology and information, developing a montage of psychedelic sound, improvisation and performance.