Self Cancellation – Asymptotic Freedom / Feedback Wire Drawing
Benedict Drew John Butcher
John Butcher plays and manipulates a feeding back saxophone. Benedict Drew on electronics, broken cables and standing waves.
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John Butcher plays and manipulates a feeding back saxophone. Benedict Drew on electronics, broken cables and standing waves.
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A chorister attempting to sing Vivaldi, with live accompaniment, while trampolining for 20 minutes.
Poetry of raw fearless truth and the realest crip insight fully embedded in absolute lyrical lounge.
Profound mathematical ideas for romantics, to help us linger in the difference we share.
N30 is a massive, dynamic, immersive multi-channel presentation of front-line field recordings from the protest against the WTO in Seattle