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File sound art

Exhibition in Birmingham, England, 13th - 16th March 2002

Aidan Baker

Felix Kubin

Carya Amara

Ben Neal

Jordan Baseman

File sound art presents an exhibition of works on the File CD series: 27 international artists at City Space, 13th - 16th March, 11 am – 5 pm daily.

Join us for drinks at the opening party on Tuesday 12th March, 6 pm.

The entrance to City Space is through Jacobs Photography, 97 - 99 Corporation Street, Birmingham.

All works use sound as their medium and range from spoken word, field recordings, computer generated sound, performance documentation, disco to karaoke. Many of the artists have made work relating to Birmingham including Swedish artist Karin Kihlberg, who recorded comments, propositions and bon mots from a night on Broad Street. The show contains some of the funniest insults you will hear this year, courtesy of Neil Chapman’s manipulation of Alasdair Cooke and Tim Olden's junglist barrel organ tunes.

Hear works by:-

Jordan Baseman: Park bench interview with a retired pediatric mortician in which he recalled the process for removing children’s brains from Their Little Heads.

Neil Chapman Untitled. Seminal work with footage from Alasdair Cooke's Letter From America on Radio Four and some of the most inventive insults you will hear this year.

Tim Olden has been composing for the traditional barrel organ. In A View from the Bigger Picture he presents his junglist approach to an instrument more closely associated with the village fete than the street.

Fat - Rod is in the Detail. Subtle strains of the gravel voiced rock legend drift to you across pastoral and urban soundscapes.

Andrew Dodds - Untitled Horror. Several seconds of sampled horror movie score build and build and seem to lead to the heart of an immense darkness.

and:- Barbara Barron; Cumulus; Dreams of Tall Buildings; Jeremy Wulff; Karin Kihlberg; Mark Wilkinson; Norwegian Lady; Reuben; Henry Rokasayers; Rooney; Richard Whitelaw; The Hideous Green; The Young Baron; Ben Neal; MC Graham; Flaming Fire; Carya Amara; Ernesto Diaz-Infante; Diskono presents Felix Kubin; Aidan Baker; Sawako Kato; Christopher Delaurenti.

To talk to File organisers Ben Sadler and Philip Duckworth, telephone 0798 9916 544 or email ohneprojects-AT-hotmail.com (replace -AT- with @ to make the address valid. Blame spammers for the inconvenience).

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