HIFI to LOFI Continuum: Media Archeology and the ‘Political Ecology’ of Music is an artist talk, conversation and listening session that takes a (metaphorical) dive into an old dumpster to uncover the material politic of Music (and sound) and its predominant role within throw-away culture. The event traces out aspects of music’s material entanglements with humans and ecology by exploring the artist’s archive of experimental ‘how-to’ videos and her media archeological takes on the technology she finds in the garbage.

While eating popcorn and testing out a demo or two we will look into the artistic research findings of High Fidelity Wasteland, the artist’s sound centric trilogy that experiments with the material waste left over from generations of decomposing sound reproduction technology. HIFI to LOFI Continuum culminates in a field trip to the iMAL exhibition The End and the Beginning for a listening session within High Fidelity Wasteland II: Protoplastic Groove — is an immersive sound installation consisting of a modified 1950s era record player that devolves the audible timescale of music from the past.

Limited to 20 participants; first comes first served

English spoken

Event in collaboration with iMAL