Cannon Hill Gas Street Basin Narrowboat The Rotunda Augusta Road Daddylonglegs Midpoint

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An Audio Collaboration between Hia & Biosphere plus interactive CD Rom for PC and Mac. Perfomed at The Rotunda in Birmingham, England on October 4th 1997. Birmingham Frequencies is a record of an event which took place in Oct 97, within the sublime circular rhythms of Birmingham's modern architectural classic - the Rotunda. The second best loved structure in Birmingham after King Kong. On this night, 250 people went up into the Rotunda for the first time, to hear a soundtrack by Geir Jenssen and Bobby Bird made with recordings taken from around Birmingham over the previous week. Visual impressions were also commissioned and projected on to the inner curve of the polo mint shaped room. The event was a follow-up/return invitation to an event two years previously, when H.I.A. and Biosphere collaborated in a live concert overlooking Tromso, Norway as part of the Polar Music Festival, a performance subsequently released as "Polar Sequences" . As the the title implies, audio/visual data was captured from various locations around the city: a sunny day in the park, a night time trip down the canal, a visit to a Moseley flat... transmuted into an unusually warm and mesmeric impression of Birmingham. The CD contains an additional interactive CD Rom track for Mac/PC, developed after the event, using sounds and images from the night. 2000 Press information