About the Project

Surface Noise
Scanner
12 - 14 November 1998
From St Paul's Cathedral to Big Ben and vice versa

Taking the sights and sounds of London and the nursery rhyme London Bridge is Falling Down as a starting point for a walk through the city, sound artist Scanner gathered sound samples and visual material as ingredients for three evenings of live sound.

Overlaying a map with the sheet music for London Bridge is Falling Down, Scanner walked through London and made audio recordings on a Digital Audio Tape machine and took digital photographs at the points where the musical notes fell on the map. The visual images were fed into a computer and translated into sound which Scanner mixed live with the DAT recordings.

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