LOOP 60Hz: Transmissions From The Drone Orchestra: A Performance by John Cale & Liam Young 12 & 13 Sep

Liam Young
Liam Young is a speculative architect who operates

in the spaces between design, fiction and futures.
Trained as an architect in Australia, he has worked
for a number of the worlds leading design practices.
As technology increasingly became the fundamental
driver of urban change Young became frustrated
with the slow pace of traditional architecture and set
up his own speculative futures think tank, Tomorrows
Thoughts Today, a collaborative practice, working
across science, technology and architecture. To
ground his design fiction practice in the realities of
present Young has also cofounded the research
studio Unknown Fields, an award winning nomadic
workshop that travels on annual expeditions to the
ends of the earth to investigate emerging trends
and uncover the weak signals of possible futures.
Young now manages his time between exploring
distant landscapes and prototyping the future worlds
he extrapolates from them. He tells stories about
the future city using fiction, film and performance
as imaginative tools to explore the implications
and consequences of emerging technologies
and ecological conditions. His projects include
Under Tomorrows Sky, a science fiction movie
set for a fictional future city developed through
collaborations with scientists and technologists and
most notably Electronic Countermeasures, a swarm
of quadcopter drones that drift through the city
broadcasting a pirate internet and file sharing hub.
tomorrowsthoughtstoday.com
@liam_young
Dont miss out on your favourite artists

Sign up to our contemporary music newsletter at
barbican.org.uk/e-updates
Follow us
@BarbicanCentre
/BarbicanCentre
LOOP>>60Hz: City of Drones

A Digital Landscape by
Liam Young + John Cale + FIELD
Live at www.cityofdrones.io
Accompanying the live performances
of LOOP>>60hz is an interactive digital
environment, which is part of the Barbicans
Digital Revolution exhibition and will also be
hosted on The Space. Developed by John
Cale, Liam Young and digital artists FIELD, this
interactive environment charts the story of a lost
drone drifting through an abstract cityscape, and
players are invited to pilot a virtual craft and
remotely explore this imaginary world. Painting
the sky with aerial contrails and buzzing between
the buildings, the audiovisual choreography
echoes throughout the online landscape.
LOOP>>60Hz: City of Drones is commissioned
by the Barbican and The Space
The Space is a free website for artists and

audiences to create and explore exciting new art.
We commission new talent and great artists from all
art forms, creative industries, technical and digital
backgrounds, through regular Open Calls and
partnerships. You can visit The Space at
www.thespace.org.
Together we champion bold,

ambitious work.
Please give generously.
Text BARB99 5 to 70070
barbican.org.uk/support-us
LOOP>>60Hz :
Transmissions
from The Drone
Orchestra
A performance by John Cale & Liam Young

12 & 13 Sep
Barbican-Centre
This programme is also available in digital
form for your smartphone and tablet
barbican.org.uk/programme
John Cale & Liam Young programme.indd 1-2
barbican.org.uk
05/09/2014 16:30
LOOP>>60Hz :
Transmissions from
The Drone Orchestra
Featuring
With special thanks to
John Cale
Dustin Boyer
Joey Maramba
Deantoni Parks
with very special guest Nick Franglen
Liam Young
RNSS PA hire
Games On Track
Drone Speakers Mini Rig
Rehearsal Facilities kindly provided by Mill Co
The Helicopter Girls
John Nussey
Giorgia Polizzi
Ryan McCann, Domino Record Co
Credits
John Cale
Nita Scott producer
Dustin Boyer project engineer
Rob Verschoor FOH sound engineer
Eric De Bie monitor engineer
Rob Donnelly Jackson surround sound engineer
TEAM ARM pre-production
Ralph Esposito pre-production lead
ARM Studios, Los Angeles studio/rehearsal
facilities
Liam Young
Andreas Mller software lead
Keri Elmsly producer
Aymie Backler project manager
Denis Stratton lead pilot
Liam Young with Universal Assembly Unit
costume design
costume production team
Samantha Lee, Oliviu Lugojan-Ghenciu,
Zhan Wang, Harry Kay, William Gowland,
Dimi Constantinides, Quiddale OSullivan,
Jennifer Chen, Chris Cooper, Charlie Carr
Gomm, Panja Gbel, Richard Strange
pilots
Oliviu Lugojan-Ghenciu, Alan Perin,
Ayhan Dawood, Dan Bishop
Philip Tarry drone technician
Dan Terry lighting design
John Cale & Liam Young programme.indd 3-4
DJI Drone Hardware and Technical Support
Please note it is compulsory to turn off all

mobile devices before you enter the Theatre
as they may interfere with the performance.
Produced by the Barbican
Co-commissioned with The Space
For nearly 50 years, John Cale has thrived at the

vanguard of a myriad of creative disciplines, from
setting the stage for an underground, noise-bending
attack on rock and roll with the Velvet Underground,
to the truly unclassifiable music he makes today. This
brave new commission sees Cale joining forces with
speculative architect and storyteller Liam Young
to explore the emerging soundscape of a new
generation, the distant rumble of drone propellers.
Loop>>60hz shifts the conversation about drones
from one that is predominantly centred on militarised
and surveillance applications to one that looks at
what alternative opportunities they may present.
This is not to exclude or ignore the extraordinary
atrocities that these technologies are carrying out,
but we simultaneously need to have a different
kind of discussion. There are now more civilian
drones in the sky than there are military ones. As
with all technology, it is when it gets democratised
that we really start to see its true potential.
Against a score of original compositions and tracks
expressly selected and reinterpreted from Cales
seminal career Loop>>60hz imagines the possibilities
of the drones as emerging cultural objects. If
these technologies are no longer unseen objects
overhead, or propelled along classified flight paths,
but brought into close and intimate relations with
us, then how might we see them differently? When
their transmission fades, when the drones lose their
signal and without their protocols for terror and
surveillance, do they drop from the sky, do they fall in
love or do the drones drift endlessly, forever on loop?
Challenging the format of a stage-based seated
performance, the drones, drifting overhead, will
occupy the volume of the theatre. As members of the
band they are both disembodied instruments and
a nomadic broadcast infrastructure, dissolving the
line between the audience and the stage. Through
the membrane of the safety net you will literally feel
the downdraft wash across your face, whilst the hum
of their propellers form an active audio layer within
the immersive soundscape of the performance.
hardware and expert advice and to all of our

team for their passion and unrelenting hard work.
Programme notes John Cale and Liam Young
#loop60hz
About the Artists

John Cale
A pioneer who refuses to
stop innovating NME
Over the course of a career that began in the
1960s, John Cale has built up a body of work
as a musician, singer, songwriter, producer, film
composer and visual artist. Cale has been at the
vanguard of a myriad of creative disciplines the
artist who began his musical career in a youth
orchestra in Wales and wrote his first composition
while still at school developed a penchant for
avant-garde at a London art college, and was
guided to New York by the hand of Aaron
Copland and John Cage. He abandoned
conventional wisdom, throwing away his classical
scholarship and trading it in to contort his beloved
viola into what would become his signature sound.
An encounter with LaMonte Young set Cale on a
new path, cultivating the then unfamiliar practice
of holding a single chord for hours, creating
an inexplicable movement and rhythm that was
unique to each listener. All this set the stage
for a hugely influential underground career.
Along the way he has explored feedback, white
noise, protopunk, new wave, ambient, noise
pop, electronic, baroque, alternative, drone,
experimental, classical and much else besides.
And he has made innovations throughout;
whether by tuning his instrument to the hum of a
refrigerator, or by tucking paperclips into piano
strings to augment a tonal scale, his unwavering
pressure on technological boundaries has led
him to this exciting new frontier. Now, linking up
with an innovator in another field like Liam Young,
Cale is embarking on one of his most exciting
collaborations to date, combining two seemingly
disparate disciplines to explore and extend the
link between art and technology like never before.
Our bold commissioners, and a project team driven

by their relentless desire to experiment, innovate
and explore by any means necessary have made
this project possible. We are running autonomous
choreographed flight indoors, and due to the
experimental nature of the software and emergent
state of the technology it may be subject to glitches.
We thank you in advance for your understanding.
Drone : a bleak tapestry of unholy

noises, searing into the listeners
ears and with any luck transporting
them to a place theyll not want to
leave for long while. John Cale
Our thanks and appreciation goes out to DJI

who have generously supported this project with
john-cale.com
@therealjohncale
05/09/2014 16:30

LOOP 60Hz: Transmissions From The Drone Orchestra: A Performance by John Cale & Liam Young 12 & 13 Sep

Uploaded by

Copyright:

Available Formats

LOOP 60Hz: Transmissions From The Drone Orchestra: A Performance by John Cale & Liam Young 12 & 13 Sep

Uploaded by

Document Information

Original Title

Copyright

Available Formats

Share this document

Share or Embed Document

Sharing Options

Did you find this document useful?

Is this content inappropriate?

Copyright:

Available Formats

LOOP 60Hz: Transmissions From The Drone Orchestra: A Performance by John Cale & Liam Young 12 & 13 Sep

Uploaded by

Copyright:

Available Formats

Liam Young

Liam Young is a speculative architect who operates

Dont miss out on your favourite artists

LOOP>>60Hz: City of Drones

The Space is a free website for artists and

Together we champion bold,

A performance by John Cale & Liam Young

John Cale & Liam Young programme.indd 1-2

With special thanks to

John Cale & Liam Young programme.indd 3-4

DJI Drone Hardware and Technical Support

Please note it is compulsory to turn off all

For nearly 50 years, John Cale has thrived at the

hardware and expert advice and to all of our

About the Artists

Our bold commissioners, and a project team driven

Drone : a bleak tapestry of unholy

Our thanks and appreciation goes out to DJI

You might also like

Pfad - The Proxy pFad of © 2024 Garber Painting. All rights reserved.