{"id":1826,"date":"2016-10-27T18:29:16","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T17:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/?p=1826"},"modified":"2023-11-12T16:52:29","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T15:52:29","slug":"grey-line-twilight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/grey-line-twilight\/","title":{"rendered":"grey line [twilight]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tomorrow we perform <em>Grey Line<\/em> \u2013 an interventional new public art work for radio, that Rosa Casado and I have been developing since spring, and that has turned out be simultaneously one of our smallest and largest scale works. The piece has been commissioned by Consonni, and takes as its context and broadcast platform an all-day radio symposium and public event\u00a0within their <em>LaPublika<\/em> programme, into which we will intervene throughout tomorrow&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/media\/greyline\/grey-line-01.jpg\" alt=\"Grey Line [twilight]\" style=\"width:900px\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<em>Grey Line<\/em> will attempt to track the twilight edge of the shifting shadow of night, as it slowly moves across the surface of the planet \u2013 following the progress of one day&#8217;s sunset, and its passage, over a scattering of disparate and diverse&nbsp;locations across the earth, towards and over the public event site of Tabakalera in Donostia, northern Spain. As this thin line of twilight slowly and relentlessly travels around the world &#8211; from the Pacific, across Asia and the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Africa, to the Atlantic &#8211; we will&nbsp;open a series of short live audio connections to people stood out on the earth&#8217;s surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By giving us temporary access to the microphones of their mobile phones, these individuals will allow us to eavesdrop onto whatever may or may not be audible around them, as daytime passes into night where they stand \u2013 in Nagoya, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Kathmandu, Kuwait, Hebron, Athens, Donostia and Bamako \u2013 as they step out into their own landscape to watch the shadow&#8217;s edge reach them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These\u00a0provisional live audio connections will attempt to open moments of access out onto the relentless journey of one day&#8217;s perpetual sunset, and onto one of the planet&#8217;s inevitable rotations&#8230; carrying familiar sounds of other public spaces&#8230; or only fragments of recognisable sound&#8230; or simply offering a reflective minute of somewhere else\u2019s silence&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Image: Brookes 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow we perform Grey Line \u2013 an interventional new public art work for radio, that Rosa Casado and I have been developing since spring, and that has turned out be simultaneously one of our smallest and largest scale works. The piece has been commissioned by Consonni, and takes as its context and broadcast platform an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,31,21,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcast","category-grey-line","category-site","category-sound"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1826"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2577,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions\/2577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}