Troglodyte Musicien

[imomus]

The two best web pages I hit today were my Dutch friend Jip de Kort's March photoblog page and an audio art site about The Audible Picture Show, an organization that plays sound art to audiences in darkened cinemas. In fact I spent the day making a short audio piece for a show they're planning this May in Berlin called Britspotting. Curator Matt Hulse e mailed me: 'As Britspotting is a festival of work by British artists, I thought it'd be nice to have a 'Brit-in-Berlin' create an original new work - and you came to mind.' After yesterday's Brit-bashing entry, I thought it was a nice piece of irony that I'm now flying the flag for my country! The piece is a masturbatory whisper in french, flecked with crushed digital distortion, set against a natural backdrop of twittering birds. The voice rises to a climax, utters a guttural rasp, and turns into a croaking frog, which takes its place in the natural soundscape before hopping off in a fade. It's called Troglodyte Musicien after the bird to be heard in the background, and for me has echoes of Vito Acconci, Serge Gainsbourg and Georges Bataille. I will make good use of the darkened cinema, filling it with a big black blush. For the whispery wanking voice of the prince who turns into a frog sounds remarkably like my own.

Anyway, I thought I would do a little curation of my own today, combining the sound clips on Audible Picture Show's website with Jip de Kort's wonderful photos (his is still the best regular photo-only blog I know, I love his eye and the superflat Holland he documents, with its plastics and its naturals). Jip, you don't mind me shoehorning your content in here, do you? Consider it tit for tat: my face is shoehorned into your portfolio! For audio art credits, check the Audible Picture Show website. The connections between the images and the sounds you'll hear when you click them are completely haphazard, but might be interesting. Strangely enough, these pages both had exactly 29 elements on them.