Want to get involved in some 24 hour international internet based karaoke fun? Yes, of course you do.
In Liverpool and London this Thursday, Mercy, GLTI.CH and Meanwhilespace are hosting dual city music/writing/performance massive cocktailey rave ups.
As part of Mercy’s Overlap programmem which explores shared territories across multiple disciplines, the two events will invite participants to EMBRACE the glitch with a night of lo-fi, cut up and new technologies. Daniel Rourke and Kyoung Kim will be connecting karaoke sessions between Korea, London and Liverpool plus a brand new film-loop commission from Ross Sutherland.
Liverpool will see live a brand new commission for Mercy from Ross Sutherland which will be part of Ross’s 2012 Edinburgh show. A new format where he delivers poetry over a well known clip of tv, on a loop and ‘data-mashed’, presenting a variety of poetic inferances and interferances on popular culture.
SO, knock back a few drinks, request a few songs and get ready to sing duets with your Liverpool / London brethren (no pressure: join in whichever way you can). GLTI.CH Karaoke, a worldwide hyper-trend in the making, posits that there is discernible value & joy in:
1. the collective stumbling & frustrations met in the face of tech limits, language barriers & time zone differences
2. oblique experimentation
3. embracing & folding in “errors” in future iterations versus seeking to “overcome” or eradicate them.
GLTI.CH asks to be written & rewritten as cracks, bruises & mistranslation errors gather & proliferate through pop songs & datastreams, as people are GLTI.CHed together.
