Anna Meredith releases new album Bumps Per Minute: 18 Studies for Dodgems
Anna Meredith has released Bumps Per Minute: 18 Studies for Dodgems, a new album to coincide with the launch of the DODGE installation at London's Somerset House.
The 18-track surprise album (with an intro and outro voiced by comedian Rob Broderick) accompanies the launch of the DODGE installation at Somerset House's courtyard, and is a reinvented, sensory experience based on the classic fairground ride dodgems.
Meredith says of the album, "I approached writing these 18 tracks like little exercises, making identities that are bold, playful and characterful but without beats, percussion or any acoustic elements and relying on my skills to create melodic and harmonic based energy."
She adds, "They’re also less about musical development than my orchestral work or material in my studio albums, these tracks are only themselves and unapologetically so, and that freed me up to unleash some pretty bonkers ideas, knowing it’s about these bold switches - like a sort of musical Whacky Races…"
As well as releasing the album, Meredith has launched a new "microsite" that features a digital version of dodgems. Each bumper car features sounds from a different track from the album.
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