SUMMER CLUB // SOUND presents... The Lifting of Tower Bridge

Presented by: SummerClubSound

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0	LONDON: V22 Louise House
P	Sunday 14th August, 2016
N	5:00pm

Event information

PLEASE NOTE: This event starts at 5pm and finishes at 6pm

Tower Bridge is an iconic visual symbol of London but the intimate sounds of its operation are heard by few apart from the Bridge's engineers and maintenance staff. The three field recordings presented here uncover a rich and startling sonic world of redundant engines powered by compressed air, the dissociative harmonics of electric motors and a vast, echoing symphony of noise made by the road section as it descends from view into one of the Bridge's hidden bascule chambers. Taken together, the sounds of Tower Bridge capture a sense of the city's impersonal grandeur different to the cheerful images promoted to tourists and inhabitants.

NB all visiting children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult
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The London Sound Survey is a field recording and sound research project started by Ian Rawes in 2009. Since then, it has amassed around 2,000 recordings of the capital's life, along with archival recordings from the early and mid 20th Century and historical references from as far back as the 11th Century. The project's goal is to develop an encyclopedic account of London's past and present soundscape. It has been featured on national and local radio, local TV and in the national press.
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SUMMER CLUB // SOUND is a creative collaboration between musician, Andie Brown (These Feathers Have Plumes), and artist-producer, Helen Frosi (SoundFjord), commissioned for V22’s Summer Club 2016.

SUMMER CLUB // SOUND is set to run Thursday to Sunday, from 24 July to 28 August 2016 at V22’s latest art studios, gallery and venue, Louise House (Forest Hill).

www.soundfjord.org
www.andiebrownsound.com
www.v22collection.com

Image: inside the bascule chamber by Jez B (Creative Commons photograph on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/jez_b