By Hammer and Hand
Sang de Beouf
2010
Shown as part of The Witching Hour, Waterhall, BMAG
Two pieces made from water-jet cut black mdf, depicting craft objects created by the Birmingham Guild of Handicrafts and the Ruskin Pottery during the 19th Century.
Works from Black Hole Hums B Flat
2010
Ceri Hand Gallery pop-up space, London
Tambourines:
The images on the tambourines describe the software plugins we use in conjunction with our homemade instruments. Phil, who builds the plugins, described how they work to Ben who made representational images from the information.
2joystick_pitchshift_trig
This plugin is controlled by an instrument made from two joysticks. One joystick acts as a pitchshifter which can bend the pitch of an incoming audio signal up or down. The second joystick and set of buttons trigger audio from one of 8 outputs on the plugin.
2pong_xmix
This plugin ping-pongs between two audio inputs. Which input is passed to the output is determined by the bpm host software triggering a random voltage. 0 to +5 volts will pass one input to the output and -0 to -5 will pass the other. This is shown by the arrangement of the cricket and frog > battery > fly and bee.
Painted Instruments:
The painted images are representations of the equipment the artists used when we first starting a band together in 1999. Attempting to make electronic music similar to that of laptop groups, but unable to afford laptops, they used four-track cassette recorders and guitar effects pedals. Images of this equipment are painted onto traditional acoustic instruments as an analogy for the use of cassettes and effects pedals to mimic computer based music.
Forward Statue In Flames
This depicts Raymond Mason’s public sculpture ‘Forward’ (sited in Birmingham’s centenary square) which was burnt down by a teenager
Personal Stereo
This shows the statue of King Kong, which was sited near a Birmingham overpass in the early 1970’s. King Kong holds aloft an early walkman, used by one of the artists on weekend car journeys to relatives that always passed the spot where the statue was located.
Moving Average
2010
Installation
‘Moving Average’ was a one day installation set up at Flowers Gallery, Cork Street, as part of their ‘Artist of the day’ programme.
The installation was composed of a central staging area alongside sound reactive projections, a studio area with wall-mounted chalk boards, and a series of painted tambourines.
The stage was used for a performance during the opening of the exhibition. Produced in collaboration with Joe Welden.
2010
Project
Commissioned by Derby City Council
For four weeks Juneau Projects ran a gallery in an empty shop unit in Derby. The gallery was open to anyone to show any form of artwork or creative activity.
Artwork was added throughout the course of the exhibition, with over one hundred work shown in total.
Juneau Projects installed and designed the exhibition framework and curated and hung the display of contributed works.
Visit the ‘I am the Warrior’ project page here
Aldeburgh Sketch 04
2010
Installation and Performance
Commissioned by Aldeburgh Music in conjunction with ArtOffice
The installation was composed of a series of hand-made instruments and staging elements alongside four sound reactive projections and customised costumes. Juneau Projects composed a series of songs that referenced local landscape and places as well as Suffolk’s Military history, particularly its role in the development of Radar technology. These songs were performed live within the installation.
Forward Statue in Flames
2009
Installation and Performance
Commissioned by The Event
A performance and installation including a set of songs written by Juneau Projects about defunct public art works and endeavours in Birmingham, the title of the work being taken from one of these songs.
The music was performed on hand-made instruments with sound reactive projections, and customised costumes.
All tracks from the piece can be heard in the Audio section here
Formosa
2009
Installation
Commissioned by Crate
‘Formosa’ was commissioned as part of Matthew De Pulford’s ‘Bad Translation’ programme for Crate.
The installation was staged in Margate’s Shell Grotto, an underground chamber lined with over 4 million shells. Visitors to the installation triggered a series of sensors that operated various sound sources taken from recording analogue data cassettes. The sound sources in turn triggered a series of sound-reactive projections.
The work referenced the Grotto’s rich history as a site of Seances. It employed ideas prevalent in Electronic Voice Phenomena and also the notion of obsolescence in technology.
Following its staging at the Grotto the piece was also shown at Crate’s project space.
Don’t Stop Believing
2009
Installation
Commissioned by Quad
Juneau Projects designed an exhibition framework in which the participation work of Quad could be showcased.
Alongside creating display structures for the gallery’s live and object-based work Juneau Projects also created sound reactive lighting projections and installed a reformatted version of the work ‘Where I Lived and What I Lived For’.
2009
Project and digital prints
The prints in ‘Cardboard Wars’ document a performance event organised by Juneau Projects in which participants were invited to build a costume and weapon out of cardboard and to take part in a conkers-style tournament to test whose weapon was the most robust.
Further information is available here
Wooden Shields
2008
Birch and Marine plywood
These works are part of a series of wooden ‘shields’ that reference moments from digital folklore.
‘Acorn Archimedes’ compares the decline of the British Red Squirrel, due to the influx of the American Grey Squirrel, to the demise of Acorn computers in relation to the growth of the US Microsoft company.
‘Elk Cloner’ is the name given to an early computer virus that was made by a 15 year old American boy. The virus installed a poem on affected computers.
