Play (FOFA Edit) In the summer of 2009, we were staying with friends in a small house in South London. One evening, after a long day of teaching we were listening to Joy Division’s song Transmission out in the garden on tinny laptop speakers. Many listens later, JB mentioned how great the intro to the song was, the sound of the amps warming up just before the first drum hit. SB quickly made a small loop of it on his computer and let it play.As darkness fell, the loop continued, seeming to melt into the surroundings. Each of us now playing variations of this fragment, we placed our laptops in different locations around the garden. This record captures that brief moment.The record was pressed by Leon at Transition Records, also in London. The accompanying video follows the cutting of this particular record in real time.A test pressing, the record is not made to stand up to repeated plays. Over time, as listeners in the gallery play the record it will begin to deteriorate, eventually becoming unplayable.

Play (FOFA Edit)

In the summer of 2009, we were staying with friends in a small house in South London. One evening, after a long day of teaching we were listening to Joy Division’s song Transmission out in the garden on tinny laptop speakers.

Many listens later, JB mentioned how great the intro to the song was, the sound of the amps warming up just before the first drum hit. SB quickly made a small loop of it on his computer and let it play.

As darkness fell, the loop continued, seeming to melt into the surroundings. Each of us now playing variations of this fragment, we placed our laptops in different locations around the garden.


This record captures that brief moment.

The record was pressed by Leon at Transition Records, also in London. The accompanying video follows the cutting of this particular record in real time.

A test pressing, the record is not made to stand up to repeated plays. Over time, as listeners in the gallery play the record it will begin to deteriorate, eventually becoming unplayable.








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AKVK is Steve Bates, Joshua Bonnetta and Douglas Moffat.

The exhibition GHOST ACOUSTICS is open from
February 15 to March 21, 2010
at the FOFA Gallery in Montreal.

STEVE BATES is a media artist, musician, and audio technician whose work revolves around improvised and composed music, radio, and installation projects. He founded and directed the Send +Receive Festival of Sound, now in its eleventh year. Bates is the Sound Coordinator at the Hexagram Institute for Research/Creation in Media Arts and Technologies and is a graduate candidate in Studio Arts/Open Media at Concordia University.

JOSHUA BONNETTA was born in Oshawa, Ontario 1979. His body of work has exhibited cinematically, as installation and as live performance. He has shown in Russia, Columbia, U.K., Canada, Ireland, U.S., South Korea, the Netherlands, Germany and Poland. In 2009 he was awarded the National Film Board of Canada award for Best Emerging/Mid-career Canadian Film and Video Maker at Toronto's Images Festival. His practice combines sound and various forms of animation to consider the construction of representation within the cinematic image. He has an MFA in Studio Arts from Concordia University.

DOUGLAS MOFFAT explores the relationship between sound and the built landscape. Working with field recording, electroacoustics and landscape architecture, his projects are spaces built for listening. Trained as a landscape architect, he completed his MFA in Studio Arts at Concordia University. His graduate thesis project, The Love Song Effect explored the sonic environment of the Las Vegas Strip. He has presented works at the Jardin de Métis Festival international de jardins and the Send + Receive Festival.

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