A recreation of one of Gustav Metzger's celebrated auto destructive performances in which nylon stretched across glass slides is projected whilst being treated with acid and the consequent changes in luminosity are picked up by contact microphones and amplified.
Can sound auto-destruct, can it cancel itself out in the process of it’s own creation? Society tends to cancel itself out: every new invention creates a new accident waiting to happen (e.g. before trains, derailment never existed). Gustav Metzger was the first artist in the UK to really address this tendency via his Manifestos for Auto-Destructive Art in the late 50’s & early 60’s. We asked Rhodri Davies, inspired by and in collaboration with Gustav, to bring together a collection of musicians to look at ways in which music/sound can cancel itself out, can auto-destruct during performance.