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Article: Playing the fool.(ARTIST'S PAGES)(using musical instruments in installation art)
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- Junctures: The Journal for Thematic Dialogue
- Article date:
- December 1, 2006
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I am a multi-media artist working across sculpture, sound and performance. My most recent work includes the making of a series of Fool's Instruments played as part of a 'fairground installation' that poses the question: 'Is reality television a repackaging of the carnival freak shows of a century ago?'
Included in the installation are several brass and copper instruments created from recycled plumbing components, car exhaust systems and cannibalised parts from retired brass instruments. The centrepiece is The Snurglaphone, a fairground organ that plays humorously dark carnival music.
Traditional brass band music and instruments of the 'big top', and the ...
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