As a pre launch appetiser - Volume presented the highly acclaimed short film, Big Ideas (don't get any), by Glasgow based graphic designer James Houston to celebrate the opening of Temporarycontemporary's Old Police Station in New Cross, London.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmfHHLfbjNQ
James Houston graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 2008. In his final year Radiohead held an online contest to remix "Nude" from their album - "In Rainbows" . A challenge given the 6/8 timing, and 63bpm, music played in clubs is around 120bpm and usually 4/4 timing. This resulted in lots of generic entries consisting of a typical 4/4 beat, but with arbitrary clips from "Nude" thrown in so that they qualified for the contest. Based on the lyric (and alternate title) "Big Ideas: Don't get any" James Houston grouped together a collection of old redundant hardware, and placed them in a situation where they're trying their best to do something that they're not exactly designed to do, and not quite getting there. He missed the competition deadline, so he posted it on the internet where it became an overnight success. To James's surprise the bass player from Radiohead Colin Greenwood (Coz) posted the video on radiohead.com.
The line up comprises: Sinclair ZX Spectrum - Guitars (rhythm & lead) Epson LX-81 Dot Matrix Printer - Drums HP Scanjet 3c - Bass Guitar Hard Drive array - Act as a collection of bad speakers.
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