Juneau Projects : Blackbird in infospace

23 May-20 Jul 2013

Overview

Building on their long-term project of collaborative music making, the artists have produced a short album of five songs downloadable for free via five purpose-built ‘shrines’ installed in city-centre venues. The songs have been developed in response to ambient sounds and spaces of the city suggested by people who live and work there, via twitter, talks, workshops and conversations, and to the artists’ own research into Worcester’s history, inspired by objects and places that they have encountered. During May and June, visitors and residents are invited to gather all the songs that have been produced by plugging a USB stick into the shrines installed at each participating venue. In line with Juneau Projects’ ongoing interest in Neo-Luddism, the artists hope that experience of collecting the songs will offer an antidote to the ever increasing speed of the worldwide web, their intention being to ‘repurpose’ the ubiquitous, near instant process of music downloading as a perambulatory process of “pilgrimage, exploration and intrigue”.