Ross Curated the DING>>D0NG show for FACT in association with SoundNetwork a 3 month sound and music show exploring the boundaries of music technology and musical 'distributive practice' at FACT
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DING>>D0NG is about expanding and rebooting music; hacking and rewiring into the normal way of listening and performing. Let your body become a drum; control virtual instruments with gamepads, turn the country into a distributed orchestra, map a city with sound, hear a building sing, reflect on the making of electricity adn swap your usual music player with a wooden one.
At the moment there seems to be many works of music and sound that are essentially distributive and expanded in their performance and construction; no fixed settings or stage, no fixed composers, no fixed audience. The components of music like software, scores, instruments, players or microphones are distributed/handed out/presented and installed across many places, binding networks across an atomised society. This is not new; there is a long history of 'expanded' music like this, but it's prevalence, expansion and crossings into other worlds, social, political, and above all musical is accelerating and diversifying through technology.
This distribution also develops a technological community and related networks; shared software libraries, music, techniques and ideas. If you want to know how to make a musical instrument from live weather measurements or DJ with a Wii there will be a community of people out there to help you do it.
Improvised recordings, shared and found files/vinyl/tape, old and new interfaces, hybrid and open source instruments, sharing elements to make music from social networking sites - DING>>D0NG compiles and exhibits new ways of exploring sound for both noices and experts alike.
Sound is everywhere - make music with everything"
- Ross Dalziel Sound & Music Curator, FACT
Click here to see the M-Log assembly workshop at FACT Ross organised with the Owl Project and MITES