Adolescent Nuclear Angst ... Or how I Learned to Stick My Head Between My Knees

Abstract

A personal childlike and irreverent surround audio collage constructed from cold war propaganda archive recordings and synthesised sound related to the existential nuclear threat we faced in the 1980's and may yet face again. This piece has resonance as a warning from the past as well as a reflection on the artist's fraught family relationships at that time - particularly those with his military father