Ambrose Field presented his new multi-loudspeaker work World Facts at the World by Ear: Globalisation concert at the ICA London on the 21st June.
World Facts combines 190 audio strands (aprox 1 per nation) into an elaborately cut-up and funky electronic soundscape. Using freely available data sourced from America’s Central Intelligence Agency Online World Fact Book, this music maps the provision of relative economic wealth, basic human needs such as sanitation, and the international flow of oil money, into sound.
The ‘developed’ west gets big, monolithic and featureless slabs of audio, whilst the ‘developing’ nations draw attention to themselves with interesting and often unstable rhythmic structures. You could think of World Facts as a version of this kind of visualisation.
World Facts is available as a live performance set or multichannel media piece. Use the secure contact form for all enquiries.
Setting up::the ica crowd
World Facts combines 190 audio strands (aprox 1 per nation) into an elaborately cut-up and funky electronic soundscape. Using freely available data sourced from America’s Central Intelligence Agency Online World Fact Book, this music maps the provision of relative economic wealth, basic human needs such as sanitation, and the international flow of oil money, into sound.
The ‘developed’ west gets big, monolithic and featureless slabs of audio, whilst the ‘developing’ nations draw attention to themselves with interesting and often unstable rhythmic structures. You could think of World Facts as a version of this kind of visualisation.
World Facts is available as a live performance set or multichannel media piece. Use the secure contact form for all enquiries.
Setting up::the ica crowd
