60 second cassette loop in tape machine, stereo speakers.

Prompted by a dart thrown at a large map of Glasgow, this project is a chance operation. The dart landed on a Catholic primary school in the east end of the city.

To invite further chance into the work an Oblique Strategies card was then pulled. The card reads “the tape is now the music”.

Jordan’s primary mediums are image and sound recording which initially created concerns about the red tape surrounding making a piece of work around the school, but committed to honouring the dart’s true landing position and using this as the base of the work Jordan requested a cassette tape from the School library. Any tape they were willing to part with, intending to sample the tape and rework into a looping sound installation. The resulting tape is Cumbernauld Male Voice Choir. A greatest hits from Cumbernauld’ as finest community choir group. Jordan elected to rework their cover of Elvis Presley’s “Can’t Help Falling in Love”.

The original tape was digitised and reworked in Ableton into a 60 second loop which was then recorded to a DIY cassette loop tape which can repeat itself forever, or until one goes insane from the dulcet tones of Cumbernauld’s elders.

(Digital B&W video documentation of studio set up with 4 track and stereo speakers.) You can find the original recording on Youtube uploaded by Roger Milligan if you’re interested in hearing the sampling material.