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Limited Edition USB Drive
Circular and "sleek" metal 4GB USB Drive (unlocked) containing the Apsides album (in two versions: 96k24bit and MP3 320), a multichannel video piece entitled The Great Acceleration (soundtracked by a version of the Apsides piece "Vates") and a certificate of authenticity, signed by the artist, with album notes and info. This customized USB features artwork by Keddie based on graphic notations of geographic coordinate points where recordings took placel.
Apsides is the debut full length album from acclaimed multimedia artist Victoria Keddie (Barbican Centre [London], The Kitchen [NYC], Museum of Art and Design [NYC]). Each of Apside’s seven electronic soundscapes derive from the orbiting of space debris as it is tracked in real-time using Keddie’s custom built software. Data of proximity, distance and attitude variance are rendered into sound through analog synthesizers, signal generators, sampler, voice and more. The rawness of electricity is sculpted into thematic patterns, melodic shapes and textured environments while straddling a compositional line between chance and control. Musical reference points include Laurie Spiegel, Maryanne Amacher and Delia Derbyshire. Thematically, Apsides depicts a sonic portrait of the interaction between humankind and its culturally entrenched position among technological systems and media ecologies, a relationship merging the animate with the inanimate in a congealed ‘machinic’ exchange between signal and receiver.
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released October 2, 2020
Victoria Keddie: analog synthesizer, voice, custom digital software
Mastered by: Jessica Thompson Audio, LLC.
This project was initiated with the support of the Kone Foundation, Finland.
Victoria Keddie is an artist working in varying media and transmission. For over a decade, Keddie has been the Co-Director of E.S.P. TV, a nomadic TV studio, as well as episodic cable access serial, that hybridizes technologies to realize synthetic environments and deconstruct the televisual for live performance. Keddie teaches Advanced Televisual Broadcast, has written on pioneering/contemporary artists using televisual language within their work, and has lectured extensively on such topics as polymedia and identifying broadcast as a medium.
Keddie has performed and exhibited internationally at venues and festivals such as Fridman Gallery, Museum of Moving Image, Queens Museum of Art, Anthology Film Archives (New York/US), Human Resources (Los Angeles/US), Syros International Film Festival (Syros, GR), Studio XX (Montreal/CA), LOOP Festival (Barcelona/ES), Pallas Projects (Dublin/IE), Reykjavik Arts Festival (Reykjavik/ IS), General Public (Berlin/DE), Axis Art Centre (Crew/UK), The Independent Film Festival (Naples/ IT), Liste Art Fair (Basel/CH), Seeing Sound Festival (Bath/UK).
Video works are distributed through Lightcone, (Paris/FR) and The Filmmakers Co-op (NYC/US). Sound works released with Counter Audition (Cambridge/US), In Context Music (Toronto/CA), Robert & Leopold (NYC/US), and Chaikin Records (NYC/ US).
Victoria Keddie is an artist who explores media environments and how new technologies shape and redefine our perception of
reality. Keddie's work emphasizes the untold stories hidden within seemingly ordinary artifacts and spaces, illustrating their significant role in preserving human existence and shaping our collective narrative....more
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