![]() “For Negri we live in a time of the total subsumption of capital, it penetrates every aspect of our lives, including our experience of time. In order to enable huge amounts of goods to feed our growing consumption 100km of river bed was recently dredged to allow large vessels to enter the Thames Estuary. ‘When you start separating the people from their rivers what have you got? Bureaucracy!’ the Thames: generator of life, origin of the city, a passage between the eternal verities of deep England and the world ocean.” (Iain Sinclair) Composition includes field recording by Peter Toll. “My bias tends towards the more cynical view ascribed to William Burroughs by Jack Kerouac. With quotes from Charles Dickens, Paul Farley and Michael Symmons, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Wolfgang Schivelbusch and L.M. ![]() C omposition includes field recording by Jay-Dea Lopez. Between St Pancras and Margate there are about 16 miles of tunnels. For the opening in 1843 there was a banquet in the tunnel accompanied by a specially commissioned waltz. Things had a terrific appearance this morning, the effluvia was so offensive that some were sick on the stage”. Whilst building the first tunnel under the Thames Brunel wrote: “Works have been uneasy during the night, ground very tender, very threatening. Listening to Sonoramawhilst looking out of the train window in turn invites the audience to reflect on their own relationship to the journey and their experience of ‘being in the world’.Īrchive recording of a popular music hall song sung by music hall star Florrie Forde in 1905. In developing the Sonorama I set out to intermingle my perception of the journey with some socio-cultural memories and contemporary concerns, in a way that does not merely present these notions/viewpoints but complicates rather than simplifies the way we might conceive of the journey. The Sketch of the Score for Sonorama, exhibited at Turner Contemporary, is a graphic score of my reading of the journey and underpins the thinking behind the compositions and the selection of the other materials that make up Sonorama, acting as a companion piece to experiencing the main work on the train. The tracks imagine topics as diverse as visio-centricity, Roman history, and hop-picking with a corresponding variety of contributors such as flautist Jan Hendrickse, poet Lemn Sissay, saxophonist Evan Parker, and writer Charlotte Higgins. With each track relating to a different point or area along the train line, the work has been informed through a collaboration with historian David Hendy and the British Library. Imagining the journey itself as the ‘score’ the work is a collection of interviews, readings, original archival material and compositions which respond to the social history and present of the route. ![]() The Sonorama book is published and available from Uniformbooks. Located on the train journey between London St Pancras and Margate, Sonorama is a an audio work that offers sounds and voices for the otherwise silent view from the train.
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