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ro.tate
Audio Installation
Huddersfield Art Galley
10 November - end of December 2005
Hidden stories brought alive through the turntable ro.tate is an audio installation based on personal accounts relating to journeys/ migration/identity/social attitudes/cultural stereotypes from the perspective of Huddersfield’s settled and diverse new migrant communities. The audio captured reflects real life issues, poignant tales, and feelings of memory, relating to movement – spatial and mental.
To begin with stories were collected through a digital voice recorder. The narrative pieces represent different accents, dialects and languages spoken. The audio has been pressed onto vinyl incorporating elements of found and manipulated sounds by artist Ed Martin [www.v3ctor.com] to create an emotional resonance.
ro.tate will be exhibited as part of Black History Month together with an exhibition of photographs on migration. The physical installation will consist of a turntable and a stack of vinyl for visitors to select their choice of vinyl to listen to; attendees will have the freedom to play whatever is of interest to them.
ro.tate is a partnership project between Kreative Response Diverse Arts and Mandeep Kandola and has been designed as a creative tool for archiving and sharing stories.
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