Deciphering a Broken Syntax, 2022 - Shamica Ruddock
Deciphering a Broken Syntax, 2022 - Shamica Ruddock
Deciphering a Broken Syntax, 2022 - Shamica Ruddock
Deciphering a Broken Syntax, 2022 - Shamica Ruddock
Shamica Ruddock

Deciphering a broken syntax, 2022

£25.00

10 copies for sale

This 30-minute soundscape was first exhibited in Shamica Ruddock's exhibition Deciphering a Broken Syntax at the SLG in 2022. For the exhibition, Shamica presented the new sound work housed within a purpose built listening environment. 

The vinyl record includes sounds from the installation and an insert that holds contextual cues and an essay written by DJ Ashley Holmes. As a starting point for this work, Shamica considered the structure of a vinyl record, taking the record sleeve, liner notes and the record itself as inspiration to think about sound spatially.  

Shamica uses sound as a means of transportation through time, cultures, and space. Their use of drum patterns points to the long history of Black sound culture and music production. Working with funk and disco drum pattern books from the 1960s and 1970s, they have drawn from various forms of Black sound culture to collapse different temporalities into the present. 

Shamica is a research-based artist often working between sound, text and moving image. During their residency at the SLG, they continued to investigate Black Technopoetics, the relationship between race, technology and sound, looking at the history of Black sound culture through the narratives of sci-fi and spiritualism. 

Tracks: 
Event A: Inwards Lurking, 5m 1s 
Event B: Wading Undergrowth, 3m 45s 
Event D: Recurrent Thoroughfare, 4m 54s 
Event E: Outwards, 4m 48s 

+ An Essay by artist and DJ Ashley Holmes. 

NB: A former previous track listing includes Event C and a 'Recess'. In this subset, Event C and the named recess cannot be said to occur. 

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