{"id":11531,"date":"2024-11-05T10:39:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T10:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=11531"},"modified":"2024-11-03T20:40:19","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T20:40:19","slug":"new-release-simon-whethams-successive-actions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=11531","title":{"rendered":"New release: Simon Whetham\u2019s \u201cSuccessive Actions\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cronicaelectronica.org\/225\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/cronica225-2024_1440-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11532\" style=\"width:520px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/cronica225-2024_1440-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/cronica225-2024_1440-260x260.jpg 260w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/cronica225-2024_1440-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/cronica225-2024_1440-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/cronica225-2024_1440.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Successive Actions<\/em> is an iteration of the larger kinetic sound performance project series&nbsp;<em>Channelling<\/em> in which various motor devices, salvaged from obsolete and discarded consumer technology, are activated by playing sound recordings through them. In turn, this produces new sounds from the devices, which are amplified using various microphones and techniques.The title comes from Dirk Raaijmakers\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The Art of Reading Machines<\/em>&nbsp;as a term for mass production processes. As such, the recordings played through the devices are recordings of other devices used in previous versions of&nbsp;Channelling, in which the sounds used were seemingly mundane sound phenomena that occur unpredictably and irregularly in everyday life, as passing traffic, wind, doors closing. So now the sounds of devices malfunctioning and breaking from their programming are causing further action and disruption.&nbsp;<em>Successive Actions<\/em>&nbsp;has been presented in a number of international festivals and events, most recently Sofia Underground, Bulgaria; WeSA Festival, South Korea; New Adits, Austria; and Sonica Festival, Slovenia, where it was also exhibited as an installation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cronicaelectronica.org\/225\/\">Successive Actions<\/a><\/em> is now available as a limited-release CD, download, or str<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Successive Actions is an iteration of the larger kinetic sound performance project series&nbsp;Channelling in which various motor devices, salvaged from obsolete and discarded consumer technology, are activated by playing sound recordings through them. In turn, this produces new sounds from the devices, which are amplified using various microphones and techniques.The title comes from Dirk Raaijmakers\u2019s&nbsp;The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=11531\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New release: Simon Whetham\u2019s \u201cSuccessive Actions\u201d&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[132],"class_list":["post-11531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-releases","tag-simon-whetham","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11531"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11534,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11531\/revisions\/11534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}