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DAVID PRESCOTT​-​STEED - Oxygen Collapse

from Ballardian Soundscapes by International Compilation

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This audio collage comprises processed recordings of the cooling fan on a digital projector, a pedestal fan, a snorting plastic pig, mineral water effervescence, a clothes dryer, human vocalisations, an aeroplane passing overhead, and gastro-intestinal gurgling. Each element relates in some way to the theme of human interference in, and displacement of, air. It is a creative response to the themes of climate change that pervade J. G. Ballard's work and to his broader interest in ecology, evident in The Drowned World (1962), The Wind from Nowhere (1962), and The Drought (1965).

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David Prescott-Steed is a sound artist and writer. He is employed as an Academic Fellow at LCI Melbourne, teaching visual culture studies and art history to undergraduate design-arts students. David's sound works have contributed to a range of international events, including the (h)ear XL II: Multimedia Sound Art Exhibition (2014, The Netherlands), the PNEM Sound Art Festival (2015, The Netherlands), Kinokophonography (2012-15, London and New York), The Politics of Ambience (2016, Oxford Brookes University, UK), and MATLIT Journal (Materialities of Literature, Portugal, 2017)

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Language Has No Positive Terms, MATLIT: Materialities of Literature, [S.l.], Vol. 5, No. 1, "Vox Media:
O Som na Literatura,"
impactum-journals.uc.pt/matlit/article/view/5044

Heuristic, with SFBM, on ‘Coordinate: Collaboration Beyond the Algorithm - Various Artists,’ Clan Analogue, Melbourne [CA050].
clananalogue.bandcamp.com/album/coordinate-collaboration-beyond-the-algorithm

Bush Flies En Masse, Heathcote (12:21) [field recording], on ‘Earth (Listening) - V.a.,’ Sonospace, Madrid, Spain.
sonospace.bandcamp.com/album/earth-listening

Ambient Urban Encounter [field recording], The Politics of Ambience (conference), Oxford Brookes University, UK
www.thepoliticsofambience.co.uk/exhibited-works/

Sound Sites: Tropical Far North Queensland (51:49) [field recording and photography],
Gruenrekorder, Frankfurt am Main, Germany [GrDl 145].
www.gruenrekorder.de?page_id=12615

Tropical Wildlife Habitat (60:00) [field recording and photography], Green Field Recordings,
Portugal [GFR 077].
greenfieldrecordings.yolasite.com/audio-2014.php

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from Ballardian Soundscapes, released July 10, 2018

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