PRESENTED BY TAKE ME SOMEWHERE & SOMETHING TO AIM FOR
FK ALEXANDER with ANDY BROWN:
THE PROBLEM WITH MUSIC

World Premiere
ARGYLE ST ARCHES, GLASGOW, directions
Thu 14 May 2020
CANCELLED

ACCESS: This work contains loud noise and flashing lights. It is a visual and sound based performance installation where you may come and go as you wish. Any recorded text used will be available to read. This is a standing performance but chairs will be available on request. The performance venue will be alcohol free. All TMS venues are wheelchair accessible.

an industrial disintegration of a disintegrating industry. 

glamour as a way of holding resentment

waste as a way of celebrating regret 

excess as a way of cherishing disappointment

A new durational work from FK Alexander in collaboration with musician Andy Brown (Divorce/Stable/Ubre Blanca/Remember Remember) in which a 25+ year 1,000 piece CD collection is destroyed, soundtracked by distorted remixing of sonics, exploring the failure and bitter glamour of the creative industries.

In this new piece for 2020, FK Alexander takes as a starting point Nirvana's Record Producer Steve Albini's famous 1994 essay 'The Problem With Music'; an explosive and damning take down of the record industry at that time, detailing how exploited artists were by the system ; ''you cannot outsmart basic mathematics''.

Times may have changed, CDs may be obsolete but the precarity of the gig economy is real. 

In a darkened music venue space filled with mirror balls and shards of obsolete media, FK Alexander and Andy Brown attack hundreds of CDs, the futility of ambition and the cruelty of consuming the callous fantasy of getting a big break. 

Image: Joana Stawnicka