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Evaporated Music is a series of Dolby 5.1 DVD suites full of grossly emotional imagery and monstrously alien sound. In Evaporated Music 1, big-budget hi-gloss video clips by Elton John, Billy Joel & Phil Collins, Gloria Estefan, Celine Dion & Mariah Carey are taken whole and uninterrupted. In Evaporated Music 2, a range of appearances of 'fake' bands on TV shows (CALIFORNIA DREAMS, PUGWALL, FULL HOUSE, THE HEIGHTS, KIDS INCORPORATED, SAVED BY THE BELL) are rescored with metal music. This seond installment of the project is subtitled At The Mouth Of Metal.

In both cases, the audio track of music is erased. In Evaporated Music 1, it is replaced by a complete cinematic sound design, constructed to synch to every on-screen movement. In Evaporated Music 2, a song is heard, but it is a completely new metal song composed by Philip Brophy to perfectly match the performers movements and vocalization. This ongoing project continues a long line of work Brophy has been developing in the co-joining of new audio to pre-existing imagery, and Evaporated Music is his most extreme audio-visual meld. The effect is seamless and unsettling – yet utterly bereft of the original songs.

Evaporated Music 2: At The Mouth Of Metal

2009: TRACE ELEMENTS, Performance Space, Sydney (Part 2 a-f) (5.1 version) forthcoming
2008: ONE OF US CANNOT BE WRONG, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne (Part 2 a+b) (5.1 version)
2006: Artspace, Sydney (Part 2 a) (5.1 version)

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