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milgram
Friday
21 July
a.a.s.
present a milgram Audio Performance Deep Blue
milgram, an audio offshoot of the art group a.a.s., will pre-record
noises from the pool and mix them with live site specific sounds on
the night. Their name is a reference to the psychologist who performed
experiments into obedience and authority. "Deep Blue" was
the first machine to win a chess game against a reigning world champion.
milgram are an experimental audio performance group, who often create
site-responsive sound performances; pre-recording noises from the area
and mixing them with live sounds on the night. On other occasions they
will create science-fiction sounds from their own machines, and observe
the reactions of the audience as if they are experimenting on them.
Their name is a reference to Stanley Milgram: a psychologist who carried
out experiments into obedience to authority, and their performances
utilise signifiers such as white coats to suggest scientific authority
or boiler suits to suggest practical or technical authority. During
events they execute activities in an objective manner, as if they have
some unknown importance, although they will interact politely with the
audience if questioned.
The performers Ana Benlloch & Stuart Tait also collaborate on a
variety of art projects and work with the art group a.a.s.
Previous audio performances include:
The Quatermass Code curated by a.a.s.: milgram 'played' devices set
into the collaborative installation based on the science-fiction series
which started in the 60s (BLOCspace, Sheffield, 07/04/06)
The 18th Storey: The Haddon Tower Project curated by Behind Closed Doors:
milgram recorded sounds from the space and played adjusted audio samles
live on the opening night of the exhibition in the a.a.s. installation
"a.s.b.o.". (Haddon Tower, Birmingham, 17/03/06)
The Conversation - An aas curated performance evening: milgram took
recordings of visitors to the event having conversations and intercut
these live with clips from old tape recordings. (The Ale Wagon, Leicester,
29/01/06)
3D Open & The Chair: milgram performed with their own audio devices
around the a.a.s. sculpture of a B-Movie science-fiction chair, inviting
the audience to sit in this and observing their responses to the sounds.
(Surface Gallery, Nottingham, 11/7/05 & Level 5, The Mailbox, Birmingham,
21/4/05)
404corporate.net/milgram/
stuart tait: 07981 516698 ana benlloch: 07981 518088
Quatermass
After darkness had fallen, the two members of Milgram moved deftly between their audiovisual equipment, from
console to console, like NASA scientists or aeronautical engineers. Sounds from a range of different sources, some
live some previously recorded, were mixed together to create a dream-like collage of noise that drifted across the
water towards the audience, where it became blended with environmental sound from the bar and from the road
behind, subtly transforming it in the process, and reminding us of the sculptural properties of sound: that is the
ability it has to fill the space around it.
Whilst many of the other performers had made responses to local history, Milgram seemed more impersonal,
futuristic and post-industrial. But their contribution, though suggesting an alternative worldview was no less
profound for this.
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