WEDNESDAY 15TH January | 7pm | £5 ADVANCE TICKETS

Come join us for Listen Club #20; Sonic Thinking through Waste, curated by sound recordist and researcher, Chris Sciacca. 

“Wherever we live, we must realize that when we sweep things out of our lives and throw them away ... they don’t ever disappear, as we might like to believe. We must know that “away” is in fact a place.” Jim Puckett, director of The Basel Action Network (BAN)

Electronic waste is one of the fastest growing waste-streams in the world. A recent headline from the Guardian claims that Half a Billion Cheap Electrical Items go to UK Landfills in a Year. This includes the technology surrounding sound recording and playback, such as microphones, speakers, recorders, headphones, hard drives, and an assortment of cables and peripherals, of which there is no circular economy. Join Chris as he curates the sounds of waste, with excerpts from his own research including the pulsing soundscape of incineration, deep engines of global cargo ships, landfill, and screeching metal recycling, in part through microphones made from household waste and Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment (WEEE). These microphones have been simply constructed from Styrofoam, outdated desktop speakers, PET4 and 5 plastics and steel, and used wires and connectors. They each imbue the compositions with their own unique material character. It is the sound of waste auditioning the sites of waste.

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