Arphield Recordings
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Sound performance in London
Arphield Recordings
Arphield recordings is a project documenting sound performed with RFID
(arphid) technology, the radio frequency identification system used for
access control and surveillance. The microchip inside each Oyster card
tracks your journeys, beeping every time you enter or exit the tube. Join
the mob at the Stockwell tube station for an impromptu sound jam/memorial
using your oyster cards. 10 June 2006 at 14pm. Download the arphield
Recordings podcast from
http://odeo.com/channel/85358
and bring the sounds on a portable music player to experience a mix of live
and prerecorded Oyster beeps.
The project started with the idea for an arphid mob, inviting friends to
join the artist at a designated tube station for a semi-coreographed sound
jam using oyster cards. The main question was Œwhen and where¹ as a major
impediment would always be the heavy security at all the gates. It was
decided the artist would do some observation and this would eventually
indicate the best timing and location for the arphid mob. Observing the
familiar tube¹s access control gates, initially with no equipment and later
with a video recorder, she realised that people were already engaging in
impromptu sound performances. My documentation led me to discern varied
patterns and even participatory scores, with mass arphid soundscapes
punctuated by silences, glitches and cracks in the system, all warped up in
a circadian rhythm of work-rush hours.
The first arphield recordings documenting the impromptu sound performance
of people moving through the London tube access control gates were done in
Brixton, Kings Cross and Caledonian Road tube stations during march 2006 for
the TAGGED one day event at SPACE Media Arts (NodeLondon March 2006), when
cds with the tracks and locational tags were distributed.
The project remains open to contributions. One way of doing this is
downloading the arphield recordings and visiting the station gates with the
sounds on a portable music player to experience a mix of live and
prerecorded oyster beeps. Another way of participating is by contributing
arphield recordings from a tube station access control gate. You can do this
by opening an odeo.com account and uploading your recordings, tagging them
as arphieldRecording followed by the number unique to your oyster card (as
in arphieldRecordings-0503266130-03)
The next arphid mob will happen at the Stockwell tube station, South London.
Join us for an impromptu sound jam/memorial using our oyster cards, on
Portugal day,the 10th of June 2006 at 14pm. Download the arphield Recordings
podcast from
http://odeo.com/channel/85358
and bring the sounds on a portable music player.
Part of Welcome Goodbye Adeus Obrigada, a Portuguese festival of theatre and
visual arts at the Blue Elephant Theatre and the Little Portugal.
http://welcomegoodbye.blogspot.com/
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