DESTRUCTION/DISORDER/DIRT/POLLUTION

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DESTRUCTION/DISORDER/DIRT/POLLUTION is an immersive experimental music performance that fuses the aesthetics of noise with classical instrumentation, sheet metal, poles and chains, electronics, prepared dub plates and turntables. The composition is formed entirely of field recordings of the noise of construction work in East London, that are echoed and reinterpreted across the instrumentation, with cut-up text taken from luxury flat advertising and the Biblical verse of the destruction Sodom and Gomorrah. In the past 10 years over half of London’s queer spaces have closed, with new property development identified as a major cause. This project is a reclamation of the noise of gentrification, to create something that sonically fights back, that disrupts the dirt and pollution of a city that is taking away queer spaces.

Created with and performed by:

Nicol Parkinson - Percussion/Metal/Bass/Electronics
Lisa Busby - Electronics/Turntables
RODENT - Text/Voice/Metal/Electronics

Lighting design by Sorcha Stott-Strzala

Commissioned by Spitalfields Music and Rich Mix

Photography by James Berry, Filmed by Zen Grisdale