Dreams of Tall Buildings (sometimes abbreviated as doTb) are a British experimental music duo comprising Darren Joyce and Justin Wiggan.
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http://www.dreamsoftallbuildings.com/learn/information.htm Throughout their history together (doTb - Darren Joyce and Justin Wiggan) have in their expansive body of work sought meaning into noise and organized sound and the architecture of space. They physiologically respond to a neural processes in unwanted sounds and noise pollution during their collaborations, beating out found samples as psychological reflections of their subconscious which at times are wired together through a practiced incubation period , with the intention of cultivating new sound scapes. doTb can block, distort, or change/interfere with the meaning of a message in their music so don't look for one. This demarcation problem in the philosophy of their work draws the lines around the boundaries are commonly drawn between art and music. After over a decade of dialogue between the artists, doTb are flickering between both senses of sound and vision, Dreams of Tall Buildings swan dive into atmospheric and tempestuous epics that bleed through collages of samples and organic treatments. They furrow through harsh minimalist noise that tests the listener’s patience to the limit. Combinations of guitars, grand pianos, percussive typewriters and a broken web of shattered loops and electronic sine waves that fire and implode into complex textures and unusual time signatures stabbing your ears with plunderphonic organised chaos. “Like Stan Getz stabbing Miles Davis in a floatation tank!”
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Dreams of Tall buildings
“Residuum Cat. No – Mus002
’"Something remaining after removal of a part; a residue."
“Residuum” – 100 gold cassette tapes, housed in a unique individully hand made plastered and painted box, with pointer card and a hand stamped segment of an original 1960’s hand blocked print of William Morris wallpaper.
£20 each postage paid Originally a commission for the National Trust at the Birmingham Back To Backs, “Residuum” was a collection of unique sound pieces that explored, reflected and exposed the hidden layers of the history contained in each house.
This collection of 5 sound pieces explored the notions of, layers and echoes of the architecture and personal histories of the Back to Back properties which where inhabited from the 1840’s to the 1970’s. Sound Artists Justin Wiggan and Darren Joyce (Dreams Of Tall Buildings) have created unique sound pieces which have a symbolic connection with the layering of materials seen in these houses, the many layers of wall papers, the original coatings of lead paint and stripped back plaster, to re expose in sound the history to it's first use as a new space, a home, a dwelling to it’s last inhabitant.
Dotb have used raw materials from the Back to Back’s by using a hand scanner to scan the walls, floors and original artefacts from each house, they then turned this visual documentation into sound data via computer software to generate a library of raw sound materials, these pieces honour their own heritage and intervene within themselves, mirroring the same way the past inhabitants always recycled material, i.e. old blankets become trousers, old trousers become pillow stuffing or a rug, old news paper becomes draw lining. Each of these pieces also reflect the technological development of the houses, from a slow crawl to a steep curve, from the colossal becoming micro, each house added another layer of technology to the last, i.e stencils turning to wall paper, gas lamps to electric light bulbs, out side water pump to inside plumbed water. This slow crawl to steep technological curve is also addressed in the physical quality of the sound piece which concludes in a binaural piece of which sounds of playing children, sounds of the workers and of life muted through walls, layering and floating like a slice through the past, peeling away the layers like old wallpaper each having it's own story to tell.
Tracklist of pieces:
Micthells house (Parts 1 – 5) 15:32
Time capsule room (back room and front room) 08:50
Binaural piece (House 2 top room) 04:15
“Residuum” gold tape detail “Residuum” Plaster and paint boxes
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Residuum is a gold cassette, plaster-casted and painted box, and part-covered in a hand stamped segment of an original 1960s hand blocked print of William Morris wallpaper. It’s about the size of a hardback book, with no way to get in or play the tape, apart from by smashing the mod rock, and presumably, tearing the William Morris wallpaper.
The audio on the cassette started life as a National Trust commission at the Birmingham Back To Back properties. Dreams of Tall Buildings is sound artists Justin Wiggan and Darren Joyce. For this piece, they used a hand scanner to scan parts of the buildings, which was then turned into sound data to generate raw sound materials.
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