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(R)ASSEMBLE for Yarmonics 2020, Great Yarmouth, UK and online, plus further showings

Following two years of discussion, this year I was commissioned by Yarmonics Festival 2020 to make a sound work to be presented online. I considered what process the work would follow if I was there on site. I requested Oliver Payne and team to send a collection of found objects and sounds gathered in Great Yarmouth to me in Marseille.
I constructed combinations of the objects and the sounds, plus some found in the streets here and the results were documented by video and audio recording.  Had I been able to present the project in an exhibition or gallery space, I would have displayed the assemblages as installations, but as the work is to be presented in video form each combination is presented sequentially.

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The audio recordings captured in the video work were subsequently arranged and form the basis of the audio work (R)ASSEMBLE currently available on Bandcamp here: https://simonwhetham.bandcamp.com/album/r-assemble

To the left is a short trailer for the 30 minute piece, as the full version will be shown online as part of the festival from 26th September 2020.

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The work will also be included in a further online festival organised by ONKAF Gallery, New Delhi, India from 30th September 2020 alongside other works of sound and music.

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And to complete a circle, a second version of the work is being exhibited in the show Héliotropes at Atelier Hyph, Marseille, France as part of La Saison du Dessin 2020.

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Below is a video document of the pieces included and a selection of photographs from both versions.

Double click to expand the videos and the slideshow above

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