GLOBO’S THE FALL EXPERIMENT ABSTRACT

‘These bandwagon jumpers might have been better off just asking MES for a straight hand-out’

Globo make a cover version of an entire album by The Fall: This Nation’s Saving Grace.

The experiment comprises both the experience of making the album and, more importantly, the reaction to our recording and the discussions that may ensue as a result of what we understand will be a relatively provocative act of covering an entire Fall album.

Globo’s Devo Experiment

Globo’s Devo experiment started in May 2006 with Globo organising the first exhibition of Mark Mothersbaugh’s art in the UK. Details of this exhibition can be found here:

http://www.mutatovisual.com/html/reports/norwich_uk/norwich.html

Globo performed at the opening night. This was followed in 2007 with a limited edition seven-inch release of a cover version of both ‘Whip It’ and ‘The Day My Baby Gave Me A Surprise’. Each song had a short film made for it, although the film for The Day My Baby Gave Me A Surprise was withdrawn following record company disapproval. Reactions to the seven-inch were mixed, with reviews describing it as both ‘brilliant’ and ‘horrible’.
Further reading:

http://www.hydrogendukebox.com/
http://www.gigwise.co.uk/contents.asp?contentid=37583
http://www.devo-obsesso.com/html/news_pgs/europe_07/london19/globo.html
http://www.hkclubbing.com/Latest_News/International_Nightlife_News/Globo_Whip_It_Good.html

Globo’s Devo Experiment also includes a contribution to the 2008 fan club-organised CD ‘Not Necessarily Beautiful, But Mutated’, and an ongoing album project of Devo cover versions.

We expect to close the Devo Experiment and report on our results in 2009.

GLOBO’S NEW PERSPEXTIVE CUBE EXPERIMENT

Globo are interested in exploring the place of contemporary music and musicians in a post-record company world, where musical artists can no longer rely on an income stream generated by record or CD sales, where music has become more ubiquitous than ever, but has lost its commercial value.

Emphasis in the music industry is now on live performance, and it is this area that Globo's New Perspextive Cube Experiment is deconstructing. Globo intend to build a perspex cube, large enough for the three musicians and all their equipment. The perspex cube will be built inside a gallery space and the audience will be able to surround the cube and examine the process of live performance from all angles, as if the band is some kind of rare, endangered species – which of course, it is.

Audiences will be able to gaze at the band in its natural habitat and observe its behaviour, rather than the traditional band/audience relationship where the audience tends to be subservient to the band on stage, a set-up which encourages a worshipful atmosphere.

Globo’s New Perspextive Cube Experiment is about our relationship with looking, in a world dominated by media representation of real events. Is a concert given by a band inside a perspex cube a real concert, or is it a demonstration of a concert? How detached is the viewer when looking at something through a glass or perspex sheet? Does the placement of a see-through sheet between the viewer and the viewed fundamentally alter their relationship? And if it does, can this inform our culture's relentless journey towards screens providing more and more of our entertainment, information, relationships, sex. Is all human interaction going to be viewed through the prism of the screen?

The Globo Stock Photography Experiment

Globo continue to push the boundaries of the meaning of 'group' with the Globo Stock Photography Experiment. Globo are interested in creating the artefacts of being in a band; records, CDs, a MySpace site, a website, gig posters and 'promo shots'.

Globo will create a library of self-portraits using the aesthetic of corporate stock photography, essentially a collection of 'promo shots'. The entire library will be then uploaded to a well-known stock photography website, and will be available for anyone to use for a small fee. Globo self-portraits will then potentially start appearing in various unpredictable situations across the world; in-flight magazines, corporate websites, advertising literature, corporate films and so on.

This strategy will see Globo penetrate new and untapped markets for their artefacts of being in a band, and will be an ongoing, uncontrollable subversive art project.

A collection of the stock images will be presented as part of the New Perspextives Experiment and will be available in limited signed editions.

GLOBO'S GLOBO EXPERIMENT

After finding the ten years old tapes for an unreleased album in our archive, we re-created the entire project using new technologies and sensibilities.

GLOBO'S PRIVATE EYE EXPERIMENT

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GLOBO'S MOTORIK EXPERIMENT

An album created around the sounds of German pop rhythms

GLOBO'S MUSIC FOR FILMS EXPERIMENT

An album inspired by film