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RAMJAM
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Nerve
Festival ICA 1999
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RAMJAM
Nottingham NOW97
Random Access Memory Jointly Activated Music
As part of the Nottingham NOW97 Arts Festival Hex and Dinne Harris were
commissioned to produce an interactive club night at the Bomb in Nottingham.
A system was designed based on a series of distributed buttons connected
to a sampler. The buttons were presented in custom built consoles and
allowed people in the club to trigger a series of sound clips which
were mixed in with an ambient back-beat provided by the DJ. In this
way the audience and DJ could collaborate with each other to make a
performance.
There were 5 audio consoles and a video console which triggered audio-visual
clips mixed in with a CDi input. The overall result was a delicious
cacophony of sound and image which everyone enjoyed massively.
The theme of the evening was MAGIC All the sounds and images referred
to the human pre-occupation with the supernatural and the possibility
of power that lies within and beyond us. Here are sompe samples of the
philosophical slogans that were part of the visual mix (© Robert
Pepperell).
Concept and Design
Robert Pepperell and Dianne Harris
Commissioned by
Andrew Chetty, NOW
Additional material and assistance
Hexstatic (Stuart Warren-Hill, Robin Brunson)
Ali Tod
Tracie Storey
Jeff Sutton
Coldcut
DJ Food
Riz Maslen
Peter Forbes (Artefice Design)
Jack the Rubber
You may be afraid of what you know
The Science of Philosophy originates in Alchemy
Allow yourself a certain amount of confusion
The fact that there are conspiracy theories does not mean there are
no conspiracies
Death is the greatest motivation for life
200 years ago scientists believed the Earth was 4000 years old
To the Post-Human everything is energy
G(o)od (D)evil
How can one believe in God and not magic?
There will always be things we KNOW but don't UNDERSTAND
Language is the only thing that divides us
The marriage of opposites is the ideal of Alchemists and Occultists
We all wish we had magical powers
Art cannot develop without taking the risk of being pretentious
Rationality is a limited form of thought
Everything is real
Dream reality is no less real than any other
All religions are cults
Science is the official magic of our time
We all secretly believe in magic
Something is what it is not
Never underestimate the suggestibility of humans
I dare you to think
Truth lies in the transcendence of opposites
Truth is what we believe
Don't emulate what an artist did, but what they failed to do.
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