Electromagnetic Sound Art - Disinformation “National Grid” - 1996 to 2013

“Pulsing sub-bass audio suggests associations with the most primal anthropomorphic element in music - the rhythms of the human heart, with foetal and infant hypnagogic sense memories, with seismic activity, the rumble of thunder (Jimi Hendrix claimed that his earliest childhood memory was of a thunderstorm) and even with war. Disinformation's National Grid is a sub-bass installation sourced either from the ambient VLF field radiated by electricity pylons and mains circuits, or directly from the output cables of mains transformers. National Grid offers live physical evidence of environmental electromagnetic pollution, a demonstration of the intrinsic musical properties of alternating current, beat-frequency effects, the architectural acoustics of its own exhibition space, a formula for the realisation and suppression of Futurist sound art, a cathartic response to the pressures of urban life, a monolithic soundtrack for the genius of electrification and for the bitter conflicts between government and organised labour for control over the nation's electrical infrastructure.” - Disinformation “Stargate” + “National Grid” LP - Ash International, Ash 3.2, copyright © 1996

“London was the capital of the electricity of the mind” - Geoffrey Grigson © 1957

Disobey, Holloway, London, 10 Oct 1996
Royal College of Art, Kensington, 5 Dec 1996
Museum of Installation, Deptford, July 1997
South London Gallery, Camberwell, 15 Aug 1998
Nuclear Warfare Command Centre, Anstruther, 25 Sept 1998
Lux Cinema, Hoxton, 9 Dec 1998
Volksbühne, Berlin, 27 June 1999
ZKM, Karlsruhe, 16 July 1999
Arctic Corsair, Hull, Oct 1999
Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, Jan to March 2000
Sonic Boom, Hayward Gallery, 2 June 2000
The Dom, Moscow, 26 Sept 2000
Fabrica, Brighton, Nov to Dec 2001
The Royal Institution, Mayfair, 22 May 2004
Corsica Studios, Elephant & Castle, 19 Nov 2004 *
The Guardian Science Writers Xmas Party, 13 Dec 2004 *
Hull Art Lab (Humber Street, Kingston-upon-Hull) 4 Feb 2005 *
Cargo Nightclub, Hoxton, 17 Feb 2005 *
The Foundry, Hoxton, Oct 2005
Westbourne Studios, Notting Hill, 18 Sept 2006 *
The Junction, Cambridge, 27 April 2007 *
Centre for Life, Newcastle, 5 March 2008 *
Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland, NZ, Aug 2009
When the Dust Settles, Dalston Bunker, Oct 2010
Living Rooms, Auckland, NZ, April 2011
Frequency Festival, Lincoln, Oct 2011
Usurp Gallery, Harrow, 8 Nov 2011
GV Art, Marylebone, Nov to Dec 2013
Inspace, Edinburgh, 29 Nov 2013
Le Bon Accueil, Rennes, Oct to Nov 2014
The Auricle, Christchurch, NZ, Feb 2015
The Morgue, Chelsea College of Arts, 16 March 2017
Assembly of Disturbance, Shoreditch, 7 Oct 2017
Gallery 46, Whitechapel, 15 Feb 2018
Kino Siska, Ljubljana, 21 March 2018
CMK, Koper, 22 March 2018
Caponier Tunnel, Newhaven Fort, 22 Sept 2018
Antithesis, Schemata Art, Elephant & Castle, March 2022
Ealing Extranormal Volume 22, 16 Dec 2023

* Disinformation + Strange Attractor

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Intonarumori

Luigi Russolo

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London was the Capital of the Electricity of the Mind

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Blast First

Haroon Mirza

Lisson Gallery

David Toop

Hayward Gallery

Fabrica Gallery

Science Museum

Wellcome Trust

Carsten Nicolai

Alva Noto

Kettles Yard

Museum of Installation

Tate Modern

Douglas Kahn

Earth Sound Earth Signal

Royal Institution

Leafcutter John

Arts Catalyst

Dan Tapper

Eric Demetriou

Liquid Architecture

Sounding the Body Electric

Julius Meytuss

Dneiper Hydro-Electric Power Station

Detektors

Shintaro Miyazaki

ZKM Karlsruhe

Volksbühne Berlin

Freunde Guter Musik

Christina Kubisch

Electrical Walks

Sabine Himmelsbach

HEK Haus der elektronischen Künste

Joe Banks

Ash International

Touch Records

Joyce Hinterding

Honor Harger

Semiconductor Films

AV Festival Newcastle

LCC Crisap

Grid Music

Mike Fell

Electricity The Spark of Life

The Power of Electricity

Geoffrey Grigson

Electric Sublime

Ruth Garde

Hito Steyerl

Lindsay Seers and Keith Sargent

Sound Unwrapped

Kings Place

NonClassical

Disruptive Frequencies

Gabriel Prokofiev

Sound Image Research Group - University of Greenwich

Mika Vainio

50Hz

Kiasma Helsinki

Electromagnetic Sound Art

Cryptic Glasgow

Tramway Glasgow

Sonica Surge

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