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Initially made as an extremely limited edition of 45 for Japan's stockist Art into Life. These were extremely popular so I have done a second edition of 40.
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This piece explores sonic transmissions and emissions, radio, morse code, sonar, satellite, blue tooth, and wireless. From our efforts to track and transmit into our solar system using radio, to blue tooth connections across the room, this work examines the ephemeral sonic tools we use and the traces these leave as we attempt to reach each other. It is an ode to the fragility, dynamism and determination encapsulated in the ways we attempt to connect.
Contact is an edited version of a live performance at Radiophrenia Festival in Glasgow on May 15, 2019.
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Special thanks:
Contact features the voices of the following people who very generously recorded themselves saying 'dot, dash, zero, one'.
Abbie Trott, Angel Simitchiev, Daniel Crokaert, Kjersti Andvig, Graham Dunning, Liz Helman, Magda Kozuba, Louise Gray, Cameron Webb, Ceylan Hay, Lior Ashkenazy, Jim Haynes, Camilla Hannan, Kieran O'Donovan, HXDK, Tanya Serisier, Barry Burns, Mark Vernon, Sam Underwood, Paul Margree, Ria Pacquee, Roslyn Steer, Paula Garcia Stone, James Webb, Al Morrell, Skip Doncaster, Stephen Withers, Phil Gardelis, Simon Hickinbotham, Johan Grin, David Fleet, Simon Klee, Nhung Nguyen, Lara Cory, Keith Cory, Darren McClure, Antonio Pošćić, Frank Jorgensen and Hugh Jorgensen.
A huge thanks to these wonderful people!
And a very big thanks to Barry Burns and Mark Vernon of Radiophrenia for the invitation to participate in the festival and for permission to use the recording in this release.
credits
released May 29, 2019
Composed and performed by Kate Carr.
Recording courtesy of Radiophrenia.
Voiced by: Abbie Trott, Angel Simitchiev, Daniel Crokaert, Kjersti Andvig, Graham Dunning, Liz Helman, Magda Kozuba, Louise Gray, Cameron Webb, Ceylan Hay, Lior Ashkenazy, Jim Haynes, Camilla Hannan, Kieran O'Donovan, HXDK, Tanya Serisier, Barry Burns, Mark Vernon, Sam Underwood, Paul Margree, Ria Pacquee, Roslyn Steer, Paula Garcia Stone, James Webb, Al Morrell, Skip Doncaster, Stephen Withers, Phil Gardelis, Simon Hickinbotham, Johan Grin, David Fleet, Simon Klee, Nhung Nguyen, Lara Cory, Keith Cory, Darren McClure, Antonio Pošćić, Frank Jorgensen, Hugh Jorgensen and Kate Carr.
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Contact was commissioned by Radiophrenia in 2019. This release is an edited version of Kate Carr's live performance in Glasgow which took place on May 15 at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Glasgow.
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