ART » THE BIBLE PROJECT
It's the Bible...
Someone suggested that it can't all be about music. I'm not sure what they meant cause each time I close my eyes miscellaneous objects in the room start vibrating harmonically and I think that perhaps a lot of it can be about music.
The Cad Factory would like to invite anyone that may be interested in doing a bit of voice recording to come into the Factory for some time in front of the microphone.
A mammoth project is currently underway. It goes something like this:
We are recording the entire Bible being read (the hotel drawer Gideon's Bible).
Once the ENTIRE thing has been recorded I am cutting it up into three and a half minute segments and then placing them on top of each other, so what you will be left with is the entire Bible being read in three and a half minutes; hundreds of voices rambling on top of each other. It will go beyond vocabulary, beyond anything decipherable as the human voice.
An auditory cacophony.
There will also be a three second version. A direct Bible injection.
Think about it for a minute.
Why three and a half minutes? I once heard somewhere that this was the perfect pop song length.
Why the Gideon's Bible? In a world where Bibles are placed in hotel room drawers for travelers to read (or tear pages from, or set on fire) , and whole ideologies and struggles are nestled on the foundation of something that people barely have any understanding of at all, could an incomprehensible shortened version have just as much meaning?
Could a three and a half minute version of thousands of voices talking over each other fit into an ad break on telly?
Why the Bible? In the words of Ron Rude:
Is it that a compression of the Standard Bible, the only scriptural compression that the limited vision of Western sensibilities could understand. If compressed into an inane babble, could it hope to be more meaningful, or for that matter, more meaningless than the full blown epic? Is this double irony the actual intended purport of the project?
The Bible has been chosen as the first of many books to undergo this treatment.
What will the end product sound like? Three and a half minutes of inane, insane babble. Talking in tongues? Listen to it with the lights out.
So far, most of Genesis has been recorded, but it has been a long process. Then there is all the editing involved.
To help speed up the process, I am inviting people into the studio to do some of the reading. I am hoping to get 2 or 4 people in at a time, all in different rooms with a microphone set up. Read a page, a chapter or a whole book.
There will be no payment for your time but seeing as it is winter, I will provide soup and red wine.
Bring some friends. I have a heater.
And rest assured, there is no sneaky religious reasoning behind the project or your involvement.
...... If you are interested in participating, please contact -- cadfactory@ihug.com.au
