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Frequency Shift is a collage of music, nature recordings and radio that permeates Haymarket Metro Station, bringing unfamiliar and surprising sounds into an everyday setting. The sound-scape consists of a wide range of works by international and local electronic musicians, intersected by recordings of radio broadcasts from around the world. This random nature of the sound-track echoes the way in which listeners will experience only fragments of the sound-track at a time, as they wait on the platforms or travel the escalators, always en route to other destinations.
The music selected suggests the theme of travel, or of reverie, the moments of reflection and relaxation one experiences while in transit. The radio broadcasts, comprising music, speech and advertisements, will provide momentary intrusions of unfamiliar sounds and languages, like the radio of the taxi one takes into the city on arriving at the airport.
17 Jun – 31 Jul 03 | Haymarket Metro Station, Newcastle, UK
Produced by Forma as part of the Art on Transport public art programme of Nexus, operator of the Tyne and Wear Metro system