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»Sailing by«, 2010, cup and radio playing “Sailing by” four times a day on windowsill with river view. By Juliette Blightman.




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»Song of Solomon«, 2006 is an aleatoric audio collage, an 8-channel audio installation that samples many versions of ‘Mbube’, aka ‘Wimoweh’ aka ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’, in a sonic tribute to the song’s dead author Solomon Linda. By Julian Jonker and Ralph Borland.




Just a Christian girl living in Istanbul,
Leaving behind her entire life.
In the real time world no one sees her at all,
They all think she’s fakin’.

Takin’ the silver and leavin’ the rest,
Set to flee into the night.
She has danced into the danger zone,
Where minority’s never right.

She can picture the future,
When Armenians take the stage,
Like Agassi, Aznavour, and Cher.

She’s Armenian, Armenian on the run,
And she’s fleeing but the flight has just begun.
She’s Armenian, Armenian on the run,
And she’ll fight ‘til the Hayastantsi are one…

»She’s Armenian« adapted from »She’s a maniac« by Michael Sembello from the »Hymns of No Resistance (Part II)«, 2009 performance by Slavs and Tatars.




»Acapella«, 2009 by Guthrie Lonergan.




»Death In Dallas«, 2001 by Zoran Naskovski. A video installation, which sets newsreel footage of John F. Kennedy’s life and assassination with a mournful ballad about the tragedy sung to the accompaniment by the sounds of an ancient one-stringed instrument known a gusle. The inspiration for the piece was an unsettling audio recording, bearing the same title, which Naskovski found at a neighbourhood flea market in Serbia.




»Never Say Die«, 2008 by Marijn van Kreij.




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Ruth Ewan’s »Did you kiss the foot that kicked you?« (2006) is an intervention inspired by the song »Ballad of Accounting« by the late English singer, songwriter and socialist Ewan MacColl. For one week, Ballad of Accounting was slipped into the musical repertoires of over 100 buskers and performed across the City of London as commuters journeyed to work.




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»Quatenary Fields/Associative Diagram«, 1998 by Sam Durant.




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“All together now” – Playlist and

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Pair of speakers, audio” – Audio installation in which Marshall & Marshall emit popular duets performed by famous ‘couples’. By Jack Falanga.




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»One on One« (2007)

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»All the Lovesongs« (2007). Two facing speakers are joined in a soundproof box, playing a short loop of a song about relationships. By Nina Jan Beier & Marie Jan Lund.




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»Songs Translated To Buildings« (2008) by Oliver Laric.




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» Iron Maiden’s “The Number of the Beast” compressed over and over as an mp3 666 times «. By Cory Arcangel. Listen.




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For the exhibition Rohkunstbau, Candice Breitz has created an installation of ten mirrors inscribed with well known quotes from song lyrics dealing with love and suffering.




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»10 Beach Boys Songs«, 2006 by Graham Dolphin.




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»Untitled (playlist for Bas Jan Ader)«, 2007. By Laurel Woodcock.




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»You don’t love me yet«, 2003 a project by Johanna Billing.




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»Wichita Lineman 1:3000 Scale«, 2001. The work derives from audio data of the 70′s country and western song “Witchita Lineman” (listen) by Glen Cambell. The landscape was generated from contour maps created from computer modelling data of the original song file. Computer audio visualisation processing software was employed to reconstruct the song using a series of 2D and 3D computer generated models from which the final version was modeled in clay and cast in glass-reinforced plastic. The geology of the landscape is a direct copy of the computer model created from the the song data and gets its characteristics from the XYZ axis of time-frequency-volume. By Calum Stirling.




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»pigeons aligner«, 1996.

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»totalmaxigoldmachine2000«. A soundtrack consisting of very short samples of dance music hits, broadcast non-stop and very loud in one of the rooms at the exhibition of Negotiations, at the CRAC in Sète, on the theme of trade and capitalism. »mmmmmm«, 2000. Monologue lasting about 50 minutes in which the aphasic Michel Prades talks about his relation to language, the poems he writes, and the accident that caused his handicap. This soundtrack was broadcast in the streets of Cahors by the loudspeaker system normally used to announce commercial services. By Boris Achour.




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Danius Kesminas exhibition »Vodka Sans Frontieres« derives from the 2004 discoveries of illegal underground pipelines pumping vodka into Lithuania. The centerpiece of the exhibition is a vodka pipeline organ. Made from plastic sewerage pipes, the organ resembles the Lithuanian folk instrument skudučiai, but it’s end product is not vodka, but music. Air is pumped into the pipes by a revolving barrel, which regulates the valves of the organ to play a traditional Lithuanian drinking song, Gerkit Gerkit, Broliukai (Drink Brothers, Drink).




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Sonne statt Reagan by Joseph Beuys.