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Project Brief / Context: An open brief to create a new piece of work in a non-gallery context in relation to the city of Glasgow

Project Description: 10 x 40mins. audio boat trips along the River Clyde over two days. In this work the river becomes a metaphorical space on which to base a series of inter-connected narratives and soundscapes.Passengers wore headphones which relayed a specially composed soundtrack, produced in association with Glasgow-based musician/composer *Twenty-First Century Troy, featuring compositions of ambient sounds, archive sounds, live telecommunication 'grabs' and sounds recorded from the immediate environment. This work is a continuation of the artist's interest in constructing meaning from aspects of a journey, and revealing human interactions within the public realm. The environment of the River Clyde was chosen as a site for this work due to its significance within the city's industrial past, and how this contrasts with its current under-used state, and its imagined fuure as a base for telecommunication industries. The end of 1999 seems a suitable time to contemplate the shifts in social and technological structures, and to draw out the unheard, the unseen and the over-imagined.



*Twenty-First Century Troy
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