Audio works 1998-1999media> audio cassettes, audio CDs
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Hungerford Bridge- First exhibited in Sweden in Roda Sten, Goteborg , 1998-1999. Published by Atlas. Hannahsleeps - First exhibited in the Saatchi Gallery London 1999. Published by Atlas. Personal Belongings- Commissioned by the Film & Video Umbrella in 2000 as part of their Black Box project. Gate 23 -Published by Atlas. Foundsounds – Published by Atlas. |
Hungerford Bridge An ebbing soundtrack of trains and tide. The recording was made on the edge of the River Thames at low tide underneath Hungerford Bridge - a railway bridge that links the South Bank to Charing Cross Station in London. Bolted onto its side is a footbridge. |
Hungerford Bridge was originally recorded for the art event European Echoes at Röda Sten in Göteborg, Sweden, 1998. Curated by Biggi Vinkeloe, Andrew Cowie and Peeter Uuskyla.
Röda Sten is an abandoned turbine building under the vast road bridge that crosses the estuary in Göteborg. Tilson searched in London to find an audio equivalent to the Swedish location. He listened to many bridges. Hungerford Bridge was choosen for the combined sound of people, tide and and trains. Herakleitos:
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Hannahsleeps - First exhibited in the Saatchi Gallery London 1999. Published by Atlas. A sixty minute continuous recording of three year old, Hannah, sleeping. Her slow, rhythmic breathing was recorded digitally at close quarters to achieve a broad sound range. Hannahsleeps was originally made as a one-off CD for the Eye Was a Child exhibition/charity auction at the Saatchi Gallery for Save the Children curated by Tessa Robins in August 1998. |
“The most focussed of all Tilson's demonstrations of the simultaneously
particular and generic is a sixty minute recording of his daughter's
somnolent breaths titled Hannahsleeps (1998). Bordering on the sentimental,
Hannah's sweet snufflings are redolent of the common experience of
parenthood; the birth of a child submerges the new parent into a set of
totally ordinary, but nonetheless overwhelming, feelings of love and
anxiety.” Emily King New Systems in Graphic Design, Christian Küsters and Emily King, Thames & Hudson. |
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 in the Saatchi Gallery |
Personal Belongings - Commissioned by the Film & Video Umbrella in 2000 as part of their Black Box project
. Taking its title from that oracular piece of high-technology the Black Box flight recorder, this touring exhibition bought together five short works, all displayed on a touch-screen terminal, exploring the ambiguities of our contemporary fixation with technology. |
Jake Tilson's sound-based piece 'Personal Belongings' juxtaposed snatches
of everyday sounds with aircraft noise. The other artists were Philip Lai, Jane and Louise Wilson, Graham Wood and Rory Hamilton. |
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Gate 23 - Published by Atlas. A real time recording of flight departure announcements in the international departures lounge of Heathrow Airport. To cut out background noise the recording was made directly from the control room by arrangement with the British Airports Authority. It is a clean recording of international departure lounge announcements at Heathrow Airport. The recording was made in a control room so there are no atmospheric sounds, only the announcements themselves, one every few minutes. |
Gate 23 has been featured on arts radio broadcasts worldwide and has also been heard in clubs, shops and other public spaces.
"The strangest present of the year is Gate 23, an audio compendium of flight departure announcements at Heathrow Airport for the modest Ł6."
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Foundsounds – Published by Atlas.
audio CD 40 minutes.
Location sounds 5 minutes each. Found sounds 30 seconds each. Tilson collected fragments of discarded audio-cassette tape in eight international cities. People had either thrown damaged cassettes from their cars or the tape had come from auto accidents. Each piece of tape had eventually entwined itself around weeds or railings along the roadside. He photographed the location where the tape was found and made a digital audio recording of the local sounds for a duration of five minutes. |
After two years Tilson had a broad range of sites. He wound the damaged and dirty scraps of cassette tape onto a blank cassette and re-recorded the found sounds. The tape from Bombay stinks of dried fish even after five years. The found sound, which was always music, is heard half-way through listening to the location sound of the street where it had been found. Foundsounds appeared as an audio CD with Atlas 4 in 1993 and was re-issued in 1997. |
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