GAGE 05: Disinformation VS Strange Attractor
National Grid is a performance accompanied by electromagnetic interference from an antique Wimshurst Machine (static electricity generator), an Induction Coil, Crookes Tubes, and antique electro-medical Violet Ray devices.
Disinformation's National Grid offers live physical evidence of environmental electromagnetic pollution, a demonstration of the intrinsic musical properties of alternating current, beat-frequency effects, the architectural acoustics of its own exhibition space, a formula for the realisation and suppression of Futurist sound art, a cathartic response to the pressures of urban life, a hypnotic, monolithic soundtrack for the creative genius of electrification and for the bitter conflicts between government and organised labour for control over the UK's electrical infrastructure.
Ash 3.2 LP, National Grid, Stargate, Theophany, 1996.