DJ Tendraw (official)'s video: Michael Shaw - Encore Prepared Fan and Acoustic Guitar Ha Ha Road Quad Gallery Derby 2011

Departing from experimental turntablism and circuit-bending, the London-based Michael Shaw's artistic practice occupies the spectrum between found object installation art and noise music. Amongst many other things Shaw creates unexpected sonic experiences by combining recycled and modified hardware, household items and musical instruments like drum-kits, keyboards and stringed instruments. While his work—whether live on stage under the alias DJ Tendraw, or in the gallery—is often loud, rough, and full-on, for Ha Ha Road he has devised (Encore) Prepared Fan and Acoustic Guitar, 2011 a surprisingly subdued yet highly hypnotic piece. A bunch of silver tinsel woven into the metal cage of a small desktop fan incessantly blows against the strings of an acoustic guitar, which ever so often responds with an almost inaudible "plink". The work at the same time inheres an air of gentle beauty and pathetic failure. Text by Sophie Springer from the Ha Ha Road exhibition guide Michael Shaw (Encore) Prepared Fan and Acoustic Guitar, 2011 Acoustic guitar, desktop fan, guitar stand, sparkly shred Courtesy of the artist Ha Ha Road, Quad Gallery Derby, 12 August -- 23 October 2011