Agency of Noise

Agency of Noise is a network of artists, musicians and academics from across the UK whose work is concerned with noise. The website offers a site for the development of online profiles for its members, the publication of works by members and the promotion and documentation of events hosted by the network. It also provides related links and references. The platform has developed from participation at national network events and conferences including Noise Vs Culture, University of Kent (2012); Liveness, University of Bournemouth (2012); Noise, Affect Politics, University of Salford (2010); and a research residency at The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada (2009).

Concrete gown for immaterial flows

Concrete Gown for Immaterial Flows was a sculptural installation and performance commissioned by the Hayward Gallery as part of the Mirrorcity exhibition (14 October 2014 - 4 January 2015). In an age of increasingly abstract power, ideology is disavowed as a twentieth century relic. We are instead told we are governed by pragmatic decisions based on charts and figures. Responding to this notion, Concrete Gown for Immaterial Flows is comprised of a concrete materialisation of abstract financial charts. It forms a stage upon which a series of live music performances take place. Musicians were commissioned to produce new interpretations of Nathan Alterman's "Morning Song", an old Zionist love song to the state, promising to clothe it in concrete and cement. Thus, the immateriality of financial transactions is made physical and given the monumental language it lacks in a patriotic offering for our times.