{"id":11871,"date":"2026-02-23T09:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T09:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=11871"},"modified":"2026-02-23T09:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T09:46:12","slug":"simon-whethams-successive-actions-reviewed-by-the-sound-projector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=11871","title":{"rendered":"Simon Whetham\u2019s \u201cSuccessive Actions\u201d reviewed by The Sound Projector"},"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\/09\/cronica225-2024_1440-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11510\" style=\"width:520px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/cronica225-2024_1440-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/cronica225-2024_1440-260x260.jpg 260w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/cronica225-2024_1440-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/cronica225-2024_1440-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/cronica225-2024_1440.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Simon Whetham<\/strong>\u00a0continues his plan to draw attention to minimal, imperceptible, and overlooked sounds. He\u2019s in the middle of an ongoing kinetic sound performance thing called \u201cChannelling\u201d, of which the CD\u00a0<em>Successive Actions<\/em>\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/cronicaelectronica.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CR\u00d3NICA<\/a>\u00a0225) is a part. On it, he repurposes the motors from discarded or broken household objects, and somehow re-activates them by playing sound recordings through them. This entire process results in further sounds, which are amplified with microphones; he re-records and presents them here as 16 short experiments. I\u2019d kinda like to know more about which kind of objects were salvaged from the trash of consumer society, and the methods and techniques by which he sparks them back into life using a jolt of audio juice much like some 21st-century Victor Frankenstein \u2013 but this might be irrelevant. I think the chain of reprocessing is what\u2019s important to Whetham, and the layers of recording technology he uses to build that chain. The finished results on\u00a0<em>Successive Actions<\/em>\u00a0are very abstracted, micro-events that seem to have no corresponding analogue in the real world. We enjoyed his\u00a0<em>(II)nTolerance<\/em>\u00a0record a few years ago which was informed by anger and impatience, but no such emotional turmoil here. <em>Ed Pinsent<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesoundprojector.com\/2026\/02\/20\/cast-offs\/\">The Sound Projector<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Whetham\u00a0continues his plan to draw attention to minimal, imperceptible, and overlooked sounds. He\u2019s in the middle of an ongoing kinetic sound performance thing called \u201cChannelling\u201d, of which the CD\u00a0Successive Actions\u00a0(CR\u00d3NICA\u00a0225) is a part. On it, he repurposes the motors from discarded or broken household objects, and somehow re-activates them by playing sound recordings through &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=11871\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Simon Whetham\u2019s \u201cSuccessive Actions\u201d reviewed by The Sound Projector&#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":[12],"tags":[591,132],"class_list":["post-11871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-591","tag-simon-whetham","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11871","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=11871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11872,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11871\/revisions\/11872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}