Alan Dunn & Jeff Young (UK): Music for the Williamson Tunnels: a collection of the sound of dripping water

A rare double CD curated in 2008 by artists Alan Dunn and Jeff Young distributed around the festival events!

The collection brings together a range of artefacts, with full permissions, including John Cage’s Water Music, Scanner, Fluxus events, student recordings, Hugh Le Caine, Pauline Oliveros and Asmus Tietchens.

The CD reflects upon the sound of dripping water from three angles, as a basic sonic building block from which great soundtracks are built, as a rhythm and as a performance element.

The CD was initially available from within the Williamson Tunnels in Liverpool, a quirky folly in which the sound of dripping water can be seen but not heard. Since then, copies have been distributed in numerous manners including many buried on beaches.

There are less than 100 copies of the original 1,000 edition and for ANTI, Dunn and Young are arranging for 50 copies to be given away for free in return for the recipient being photographed holding the CD and making a new 2-minute audio recording of water.

Full details and track listing HERE!

 

Alan Dunn & Jeff Young (UK): Music for the Williamson Tunnels: a collection of the sound of dripping water

Alan Dunn & Jeff Young (UK)

Liverpool-based artists Alan Dunn and Jeff Young have collaborated since the 2003 BBC Radio project, SuperBlock. Sharing an interest in freely redistributing new and archival sounds in specific contexts, previous projects include Soundtrack for a Mersey Tunnel (CD, 2008), Artists’ uses of the word revolution (CD, 2009), All the lonely people (Resonance FM Radio, 2011), Liverpool Art Prize (Metal, 2012), The sounds of ideas forming (ICA, 2012) and The ballad of RAY + JULIE (Everyman Theatre, 2014-16).

Dunn and Young lecture at Leeds Beckett University and
Liverpool John Moores University respectively.