Dixon/Nilsson Channelling

Dixon/Nilsson Channelling
June 2002
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One night when Steven Dixon switched on his TV-set he came in the middle of a broadcast where the sound had been mixed up and belonged to another program. The effect was funny and quiet bizarre and together with Tore Nilsson he decided to use it for a piece and they built a simple device that mixed sound from one channel with the images from another. The channels were changed every minute.

They were able to make a small programming of the device so it would make some combinations of programs that Dixon and Nilsson could expect to be interesting. Often the mash up created funny situations where the audio actually fitted the images quiet good. Other combinations were strange or horrible, f ex when TV-news were combined with the children channels.

Channeling was maybe the most mash-up piece made within the nonTVTVstation production, at least if you regard mash-up in the same way a DJ when combining two already existing tracks to make something new. There wasn’t very much left of the original meaning of broadcasts in Channeling. The audio and the images were given a totally new meaning. What was from the beginning serious became funny and sometimes vice versa. Sometimes the result was fantastic sometimes just strange. Very much mash-up.

Artists web page: www.tore.nilsson.net & www.stevendixon.net