Unsound Method (after Conrad)

Artist and writer Tim Etchells created a response to Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness for A Room for London. A musical score for trumpet and violin was also composed, which musically respond to words from Conrad's work

Tim Etchells
Tim Etchells
Artist and writer Tim Etchells discusses his new work for A Room for London, which saw him create two new versions of Heart of Darkness then transform them into music
DURATION: 4 MINS
FORMAT: Video
MusicLiterature & Spoken Word
The performance
The performance
Simon Tong (trumpet) and Aisha Orazbayeva (violin) perform Tim Etchells' score for Unsound Method (after Conrad), generated using the words found in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
DURATION: 35 MINS
FORMAT: Video
MusicLiterature & Spoken Word
Materials
Materials
Download materials associated with Tim Etchells' work, including a musical score and the literary responses
MusicLiterature & Spoken Word

Writer and artist Tim Etchells’ Unsound Method (after Conrad) alters the text of Joseph Conrad’s great novella Heart of Darkness to create several discrete works in various formats, from an ebook (and a print equivalent), to a musical score, to a video performance for violin and trumpet. The literary and musical elements of his work, which were produced by Artangel, can be found here.