THE REMINGTON
Anju Singh

This project involves transforming a traditional typewriter from a writing machine into a sound machine. The original object is an old Remington typewriter – obsolete, beautiful, difficult to work with and useless in the context of today’s needs. I am attempting to rescue it from obsolescence, separating its old function from it and giving it a new role as a sound instrument. This would reflect not only on its change in utility but also on the transformation of its aesthetic output, from typographical to sonic.

My focus with the transformation of this machine and remarkable object is both experimental and nostalgic. Listening to the sounds it makes in its existing form and shape gives me ideas for the new sounds I’m able to generate from it. By amplifying and distorting them, I wish to invoke a sense of surprise and nostalgia for a lost object of which we all still have memories.

– Anju Singh

Anju Singh

(Alex on his pal Anju):

Anju is by now a very familiar face in Vancouver's experimental music community. Indeed, she is very committed to providing a comfortable space for experimentation, as she is actively involved in both Fake Jazz and the Her Jazz Noise Collective. She has been performing in various groups/incarnations including Set Sail to Sea, i/i, and Ahna. She is an omnivorous musician, using violin, cello, guitar, pedals, boards and other instruments (ad-hoc or otherwise), as context dictates. She tells me her practice is in part informed by a punk/diy aesthetic, and that's probably as good a point of entry as any into the work she presents here.