{"id":2327,"date":"2022-04-04T14:38:14","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T14:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianbridges.net\/?page_id=2327"},"modified":"2022-04-04T14:43:31","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T14:43:31","slug":"anthem-and-icon-2016","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/brianbridges.net\/?page_id=2327","title":{"rendered":"Anthem and Icon (2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3><em><strong>Anthem and Icon<\/strong> (2016): installation, collaboration with Joe McLaughlin<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;Anthem and Icon&#8217; by Joe McLaughlin and Brian Bridges; photo: Ruairi Drayne<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/brianbridges.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Anthem-and-Icon-excerpt.m4a\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Multichannel audio and immersive installation for ISSTA 2016 at the Thatched Cottage, Craft Village, Derry; imagining the development of an Irish experimental aesthetic of the post-1960s in an alternative history in which the New York Downtown scene had decamped to the West of Ireland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;An icon inside an icon; one imagined space framed by another; marked by an anniversary.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brianbridges.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_0034.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"http:\/\/brianbridges.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_0034-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"'Anthem and Icon' by Joe McLaughlin and Brian Bridges; photo: Ruairi Drayne\" class=\"wp-image-1837\" srcset=\"http:\/\/brianbridges.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_0034-800x533.jpg 800w, http:\/\/brianbridges.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_0034-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/brianbridges.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_0034-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/brianbridges.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_0034.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Photo credit: Ruairi Drayne for ISSTA 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This site-specific multichannel sound and light installation, co-created with artist and musician Joe McLaughlin (and the second piece in my 1916 centenary trilogy) is partly a deconstruction of the early 1960s RT\u00c9 broadcast version of the Irish national anthem (as arranged by the Anglo-Irish composer Brian Boydell) and partly an exploration of drone\u2013based experimentalism and intermedia experimentation, with beating microtonal drones causing lasers mounted on speaker cones to trace out movements on various surfaces of a reconstruction of a thatched cottage.The piece was installed in an imitation traditional Irish thatched cottage in the Craft Village, Derry\/Londonderry, during the ISSTA International Festival of Sound in the Arts, Science and Technology in September 2016. It takes as one aesthetic point of departure the drone-based immersive installations of New York composer La Monte Young and as another, the more traditional musical gestures of this 1960s orchestral arrangement of the Irish national anthem. The two spaces collide in this reconstructed rural cottage, perhaps imagining an alternative universe in which leading experimental composers and artists from the New York \u2018Downtown\u2019 scene decamped to rural Ireland in the 1960s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See video from ISSTA 2016: 7&#8217;06 mins<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ISSTA 2016\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/195024133?h=08d32a9b0f&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthem and Icon (2016): installation, collaboration with Joe McLaughlin &#8216;Anthem and Icon&#8217; by Joe McLaughlin and Brian Bridges; photo: Ruairi Drayne Multichannel audio and immersive installation for ISSTA 2016 at the Thatched Cottage, Craft Village, Derry; imagining the development of an Irish experimental aesthetic of the post-1960s in an alternative history in which the New &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brianbridges.net\/?page_id=2327\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Anthem and Icon (2016)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/brianbridges.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2327"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/brianbridges.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/brianbridges.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brianbridges.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brianbridges.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2327"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/brianbridges.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2333,"href":"http:\/\/brianbridges.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2327\/revisions\/2333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/brianbridges.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}