Jacob Samuel / Album Corp

Somerset House Studios resident Jacob Samuel, one half of Album Corp, talks bots, Oasis and recent projects including If You Die in Roblox You Die IRL, and making music with musician/saxophonist Ben Vince. 

Recorded earlier in the summer Jacob Samuel introduces the concept underpinning the work If You Die in Roblox You Die IRL, an adaptive audio/visual installation by Album Corp presented at the exhibition Complex Value$. With visuals and text by Jacob Samuel and music by Klein, the virtual world constructs and dissembles itself according to the statistics created by live birth and death rates. Based on online gaming environments and on what is left over by these when they cease to be used. 

Album Corp is a collaboration between South London based artist Klein and musician Jacob Samuel. Their practice explores sounds, the movement within sisterhood and the idea of vulnerability with youth.