CODE NAME: HELTER SKELTER
In this project, code named Helter Skelter, I wish to create a series of unique sonic compositions to be performed and played upon (using various sensors, mikes, radio signals, selected instruments and the specific resonant frequencies of) the one remaining Flying Lancaster Bomber. This is to be presented as a city wide performance and broadcast live over radio (Resonance FM 104.4) whilst low flying over London. The work is to be a brief yet spectacular occupation of a present day, notionally peace time air space, with a truly iconic and sometimes sentimentalised object from our engineering and war time history. The work can be accessed simply as a physical presence passing through, but also by tuning in on an FM radio to the live sonic composition created from the living sounds of the Aircraft in flight, and performed from the position of the radio operator within the flying aircraft. In this work i wish to attempt a subtle narrative entanglement, part historical, part autobiographical (my father being a polish radio operator in Lancaster's in WW2), with the very strong national identification with the engineering and perceived moral fibre of war time London. The sound waves resonating, vibrating, and changing, much as nostalgia and family memories create a present that is always in flux. At present i am living in an ex council flat in West London which has, thanks to generous funding from the Arts Council been sliced in two by a Dakota airplane for the past three years, see WWW.phlight.org I am not by any means an aviation fanatic, aviation has simply been a curious detour through my recent investigations. simon tyszko 2010
CODE NAME: HELTER SKELTER
In this project, code named Helter Skelter, I wish to create a series of unique sonic compositions to be performed and played upon (using various sensors, mikes, radio signals, selected instruments and the specific resonant frequencies of) the one remaining Flying Lancaster Bomber. This is to be presented as a city wide performance and broadcast live over radio (Resonance FM 104.4) whilst low flying over London. The work is to be a brief yet spectacular occupation of a present day, notionally peace time air space, with a truly iconic and sometimes sentimentalised object from our engineering and war time history. The work can be accessed simply as a physical presence passing through, but also by tuning in on an FM radio to the live sonic composition created from the living sounds of the Aircraft in flight, and performed from the position of the radio operator within the flying aircraft. In this work i wish to attempt a subtle narrative entanglement, part historical, part autobiographical (my father being a polish radio operator in Lancaster's in WW2), with the very strong national identification with the engineering and perceived moral fibre of war time London. The sound waves resonating, vibrating, and changing, much as nostalgia and family memories create a present that is always in flux. At present i am living in an ex council flat in West London which has, thanks to generous funding from the Arts Council been sliced in two by a Dakota airplane for the past three years, see WWW.phlight.org I am not by any means an aviation fanatic, aviation has simply been a curious detour through my recent investigations. simon tyszko 2010