Hello.
So…
Law…
Now…
Things happened …
To mark a 21 year period since Kid A and Amnesiac were evicted from a converted barn in the Oxfordshire countryside into an unsuspecting world we have built… something.
We don’t know what it is.
For starters, when we started to think about it, we intended to build a physical exhibition / installation in a central London location.
It is said to be a huge red construction made by welding shipping containers together, constructed in such a way that it looks like a brutalist spaceship has crashed into the classic architecture of the Victoria & Albert Museum in Kensington .
This astonishing steel shell would be inserted into the urban fabric of London like an ice pick in Trotsky. Soaring into the gray English sky. And then – being built from sea containers – we could ship it all over the world… New York, Tokyo, Paris…
But we couldn’t install it at the Victoria & Albert without some parts of the museum building collapsing.
So we changed locations – now it looks like it had crashed into the side of the Royal Albert Hall.
But Westminster Council did not like the idea at all.
And then Covid delivered the final annihilation.
Our dream was dead.
Until we realize it …
It would be much better if it didn’t really exist.
Because then he didn’t have to abide by the normal rules of an exhibition. Or reality.
Much better.
So…
With Nigel Godrich, we have been working on this for about two years, through blockages, self-isolations and many very long intermittent Zoom calls.
We worked with Sean Evans, a genius video / computer artist who did it all with awesome dedication and energy, stage designer Christine Jones and game developers. [namethemachine] and arbitrarily good productions.
And finally persuade Epic Games to help us get it out to the world.
We had a guiding principle, visually.
NO NEW JOB.
Because… there were already plenty of them.
Like really.
Like a really crazy amount… You’ll see.
Everything we have built has come directly from what we did 20 years ago, in one way or another.
And we had all the multitrack recordings from the albums, so we were able to reconstruct the audio from the original material into a new controlled space that wasn’t just stereo.
It was very fun.
Working on something as strange as this on long Zoom calls with a large team of techies from all over the world has been one of the strangest experiences we’ve ever had.
Unreal in every sense of the word, especially during the months of almost total human isolation.
In all these empty days …
A little Minotaur sat on one shoulder saying, ‘This is too crazy. This will never happen’
And the other shoulder was sitting another one saying, ‘Oh yeah. He is.’
What we did was… it’s something like a mutant reengineering of Kid A and Amnesiac.
But that is enough now. Quite!!
It’s all yours …
