Anima Pepsi
Two pieces David Tudor composed in 1970 for the Pepsi-Cola Pavilion at Expo '70 in Osaka, built by E.A.T.: Pepsibird, from tapes of human and animal brain waves, and Anima Pepsi, from insect and animal field recordings.
Building Instruments
"The primary instrument here is an empty industrial workspace, which funnels the sounds of the outside through a process of grand refraction. The offhand trills of tiny birds are gathered and stretched into the stirrings of an imaginary orchestra, while the murmurs of distant crowds are recast as choral hums that seep out of the building’s surfaces. Contact mics are attached to the walls, floors and windows – a process through which Vickridge inverts the typical depiction of industrial spaces as…