Noise DJ and sound artist Joe Banks interviewed by Hari Kunzru for the Sky TV arts programme "The Lounge" in 1999. The content of the interview relates to recordings of (usually VLF band) radio noise produced by electric storms, the sun, live mains electricity, VLF "whistlers", domestic appliance...
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Sound Mirrors explores the monumental remnants of a dead-end technology and the people who visit them. The three concrete 'listening ears' at Denge near Dungeness in Kent are the best known of the various early warning acoustic mirrors built along Britains coast. This is the first film produced b...
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This sequence features brief extracts from "Blackout (The Antiphony Video Supplement)" by Disinformation - Barry Hale’s highly influential (and frequently copied) film of concrete parabolic air-defence Sound Mirrors, built at various sites on the UK coast before WW2. "Blackout" was conceived as ...
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innovative (!) and (equally predictably) contains passages that are almost verbatim quotes from earlier Antiphony texts. In The Guardian, Tom Dyckhoff reported Autogena’s promise to deliver the finished project in 2002... 7 years later, you'd have thought the penny might have dropped, but resour...
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