Aplican Términos y Condiciones (Terms and Conditions Apply, 8-channel composition, 2022, 13’20)

This is the 7th piece in my Radio Series, which, like most of my works, focuses on recycling sounds. They all use diverse radio broadcast recordings from a single nation covering a short span of time as source material. In this case recordings were used from both national and regional Mexican broadcasters spanning a very wide range of programmes. Sounds are exclusively presented in their original state. My role is simply to choose and re-compose material from the dozens of hours of broadcasts. One can focus on the content at any given moment or move on to listen to the sonic development choreographed in space, what I call ‘sound theatre’. The piece seeks to take the known, tilt it ever so slightly, and re-present it as a sound-based artwork. It is what I call a theatre of sound within a choreography of space in which humour, and darker matters, are remixed. 
It is a commission of CMMAS, the Mexican Centre for Music and Sonic Arts for the 2023 Visiones Sonoras Festival. I would like to thank Mario Cruz for making the broadcast recordings, creating the translations and the video with English translation.
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Leigh Landy held a Research Chair at De Montfort University (Leicester, UK) where he directed the Music, Technology and Innovation – Institute for Sonic Creativity (MTI2). His work is divided between creative and musicological endeavour. His compositions, many of which are sample-based, include several for video, dance and theatre and have been performed around the globe. He has worked extensively with the late playwright, Heiner Müller, the new media artist, Michel Jaffrennou and the composer-performer, Jos Zwaanenburg and was composer in residence for the Dutch National Theatre during its first years of existence. With Evelyn Jamieson, he directed Idée Fixe – Experimental Sound and Movement Theatre. His publications focus primarily on the studies of electroacoustic music. He directs the ElectroAcoustic Resource Site (EARS) projects and is a founding director of the Electroacoustic Music Studies Network (EMS). Leigh Landy is a Visiting Professor in the Department of Music Studies at the Ionian University.