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<p><strong><em>London Subterraneous</em></strong></p>
<p><strong>An immersive audio installation by Call & Response and Jacob Kirkegaard</strong></p>
<p>Sound artist Jacob Kirkegaard and the UK’s only independent sound art space Call & Response have collaborated to create a sound installation that invites the audience to experience the hidden underworld of London’s water system.</p>
<p>The project takes the work of seventeenth century alchemist and scientist Athanasius Kircher as inspiration. Kircher was a polymath and inventor, who researched fields as diverse as medicine and Egyptology, and designed and constructed wondrous sound and vision automatons. These included a collection of so called speaking statues whose spiral mouths would lead out into the streets of Rome like giant trumpets. In this way the speaking trumpets or ‘hearing lens’ would reveal the cacophony of Rome to the listener. London Subterraneous aims to link Kircher’s ‘speaking trumpets’ with his fascination of geology and underground reverberations and find a way to explore London’s mundus subterraneous.</p>
<p>For this project, special microphones have been used to access sounds from a series of “stink pipes” that connect the city’s familiar terrestrial environment to a lesser-known complex network of sewers and rivers below. These pipes, remnants of Victorian London, allow us to connect through our past and eavesdrop on the capital’s underground world. The resultant exhibition is a portrait of some of the sounds created below ground and through the pipes themselves.</p>
<p><strong>Exhibition information</strong>:</p>
<p>C&R Space <br> Enclave, 50 Resolution Way<br> London SE8 4NT</p>
<p><a href="http://www.callandresponse.org.uk/">http://www.callandresponse.org.uk/</a></p>
<p><strong>Schedule:</strong></p>
<p>Launch night: Friday 25<sup>th</sup> September 6pm—9pm as part of Last Fridays.<br> Opening hours: Saturdays, 26th September- 31<sup>st</sup> October 12pm-6pm or by appointment.<br> Special Event: Friday 30<sup>th</sup> October</p>
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<p><strong>Call & Response</strong> is an independent sonic arts organisation, serving as a focus for sound arts practice in London. Our aim is to provide an artist run space for the exhibition and performance of sonic artworks, reflecting the emerging interest in the use of the auditory in contemporary art.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.callandresponse.org.uk/">http://www.callandresponse.org.uk/</a></p>
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<p><strong>Jacob Kirkegaard</strong> is a Danish artist focusing on scientific & aesthetic aspects of resonance, time, sound & hearing. His installations, compositions & performances deal with acoustic spaces or phenomena that usually remain imperceptible. Using unorthodox methods for recording, Kirkegaard captures and contextualizes hitherto unheard sounds from within a variety of environments: a geyser, a sand dune, a nuclear power plant, an empty room, and even sounds from the human inner ear itself.
Since 1995, Kirkegaard has presented his works at exhibitions and at festivals and conferences throughout the world. He has released five albums (mostly on the British label Touch) and is a member of the sound art collective freq_out.
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<p><a href="http://fonik.dk/">http://fonik.dk/</a></p>
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