Kill Your Timid Notion Festival was an audio and video festival which took place at Dundee Contemporary Arts from 2003 until 2010. As part of the last KYTN Yuck ‘n Yum were asked to make an audio work. We combined bluetooth technology and our website to release a curated mixtape from Dundee based artists to the audience of the festival and beyond.
To download all tracks featured in our transmission for Kill Your Timid Notion click here. You can also get the album artwork from here.
Below is a track listing and short description of featured tracks.
01 : Edward Shallow : We need Cranes Not Skyhooks
Shallow, influenced by video-games of yesteryear and the sceptical of the views of zealots, has crafted a world in which to reside. Red Plastic Park is this world. He finds the psychology of the game more interesting than the game itself and has created this staggered piece with a Nintendo Game Boy.
02 : Stuart McAdam : Found Poem
When you see a word, you see through to the objects or ideas with which it is associated.
Stuart is interested in talking around his activities as an artist as activity itself, as well as sound/image relationships and their transparencies. He is interested in how this is related to art language.
03 : Ultra – Red : Arte from artists Union de Vecinos as part of the Plaza Mariachi series
Ultra – Red is an international collective of activists, community organisers and artists who urgently probe at one of the limit cases of music (and art); how to mobilise the tools of art in a move from individual self-expression to productive collectivity, investigation and action.
04 : Ben Robinson : Black Mass / Small Print
This audio artwork is a collage of excerpts from two texts: the Black Mass, originally used in Satanic ritual, and the terms and conditions of a Lloyds bank current account. When said aloud together these incongruous sources reveal a happy consistency of purpose.
05 : I like Yellow Things : Convertibles and Headbands by The Music Magicians
Steven Myles and Valerie Norris are the creators of a new zine called I Like Yellow Things, which will be launched alongside the Spring issue of Yuck ‘n Yum. As a little pre-zine taster, Steven and Valerie have selected for your listening pleasure a shining example of the little known but genius musical genre that is song-poems – odd music, weird lyrics, utterly unique end product.
06 : Dawn Campbell : Bring the Unicorn to Life
The H.M. Frigate Unicorn is hidden in Dundee’s City Quay and was the original venue for this sound piece. Entitled ‘Bring the Unicorn to Life’, the interactive installation consisted of twenty speakers, hidden sensors, 5.1 surround sound and discreet narratives, designed to capture visitor’s imaginations. This track is a small excerpt of some of the sounds exhibited in the Unicorn.
07 : BOX : AAARRRnnnMMMAAAHHH
BOX is the recording and performing nom-de-plume of Dundee based Audio/visual artist Neil McIntee, audio/visual artist working with drawing painting printmaking audio recording/editing/mangling guitar tape manipulation, electronics and audio installation; processing sound on computer and tape, chance operations and installations using found sounds.
The music is based in improvisation.