Mutilated LA car sounds

Jan 27, 2016, 04:56 PM

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Part of our Dada Sound project (February 2016) - see more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/dadasounds

By Nick Campbell. "“For us, art is not an end in itself,” wrote Dada poet Hugo Ball, “but it is an opportunity for the true perception and criticism of the times we live in.” Thematically, I chose to turn the sound of a car wash into a menacing, industrial anti-song... sonically dissonant and foreboding. Fossil-fuel burning cars are at the core of debate related to pollution and how we choose to organize as modern humans if we are to survive. The mutilated sounds of the car wash mirror the apocalyptic undertones of this debate."