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treasure hunt from 1999
Sep. 17th, 2007 09:11 amBack in 1999, I was in college and studying abroad for a term in London, England.
I went to an art exhibit that was installed in the catacombs beneath a theatre called the Roundhouse; it was sculptures by an artist called Palladino and had accompanying sound that was created by Brian Eno. The sound was a number of very long loops stacked on top of one another of different lengths. They all started at different times, so they would all loop some very high number of times (many thousand is what I kept hearing) before one would ever hear the same combinations twice. The whole thing was very eerie and beautiful and has stuck with me ever since. There was a mailing list that I signed up for, mostly because they'd said we'd be informed when recordings of the sound portion would be made available. Because it was near the beginning of my three months there I put down my London address, thinking that I'd find out by then. But by the time I returned to the US, I'd never heard anything about it.
I don't really know what made me think of this this morning, but I still want that recording. Alas, my google-fu is weak- I can find very little about the sculptor or the installation at all, let alone a recording of the sound design from it. If someone were to track it down for me, I'd... uhm, make you apple pie. Or do something else nice for you.
I went to an art exhibit that was installed in the catacombs beneath a theatre called the Roundhouse; it was sculptures by an artist called Palladino and had accompanying sound that was created by Brian Eno. The sound was a number of very long loops stacked on top of one another of different lengths. They all started at different times, so they would all loop some very high number of times (many thousand is what I kept hearing) before one would ever hear the same combinations twice. The whole thing was very eerie and beautiful and has stuck with me ever since. There was a mailing list that I signed up for, mostly because they'd said we'd be informed when recordings of the sound portion would be made available. Because it was near the beginning of my three months there I put down my London address, thinking that I'd find out by then. But by the time I returned to the US, I'd never heard anything about it.
I don't really know what made me think of this this morning, but I still want that recording. Alas, my google-fu is weak- I can find very little about the sculptor or the installation at all, let alone a recording of the sound design from it. If someone were to track it down for me, I'd... uhm, make you apple pie. Or do something else nice for you.
