Future Eclipse (broadcast)

Future Eclipse (broadcast), a two flat brass discs attached to the wall with transducer speaker produce a vibration acrros the surface to broadcast the FM signal produced by a related artwork Future Eclipse (transmission). The brass speakers pick up from the airwaves a 6-hour broadcast produced by Dane Mitchell in collaboration with seminal Japanese composer and musician Keiji Haino. The composition is devised from one list among the hundreds built by Mitchell for his ongoing project Post hoc, which is made up of unfathomably long spoken word lists which call up vanishings, extinctions and disappearances. The list broadcast here, titled Future Solar Eclipses, reads the dates and times when the Sun will be eclipsed over the next 3000 years. Keiji Haino’s percussive accompaniment is performed on a Polygonola, a ‘two dimensional’ instrument which enfolds and at times subsumes the reading of the list. Throughout the composition, his summoning of vibrations — in theory and practice — seek to both incapacitate and complicate the logic of list making, whilst ratcheting up the anxiety eclipses once caused.