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MAP MUSIC
Remix collaboration and live performance
20th February 2004, Side Cinema, Newcastle upon Tyne
Sound artist Andrew Hodson’s “Map Music” project is an electronic montage of manipulated found sounds
recorded in and around the Tyne & Wear Metro system. It creates an immersive sound track to a real time
trip around the Metro loop, designed to be heard using a CD walkman while travelling from central Newcastle
out to the coast and returning along the River Tyne.
“Map Music” was released as a CD in March 2004 and includes a remix by Cathode, “Travel Aspirations”, based
on Andrew’s original field recordings.
MAP MUSIC LIVE: Cathode and Andrew Hodson collaborated on the live launch
event for Map Music – not so much a performance of the album as a jointly
constructed, semi-improvised reinterpretation of it. All sounds used
in the performance were taken from the original field recordings. Two
unedited films out of either side of a moving metro, shot by Mat Fleming
and Christo Wallers (Cineside), accompanied the soundtrack. All elements
of this project were supported by Nexus’ Art in Transport programme.
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