Dead Cat

http://www.tattonparkbiennial.org/detail/4353/

An ode to inspired experimenters like Tatton’s last Lord, Maurice Egerton, an early radio and flight enthusiast.

Ackermann's work reflects Egerton’s radio experiments. Resembling a boom microphone of extraordinary proportions, the work plays a selection of tracks designed to heighten the ambience of the Arboretum: from the 1942 BBC recording of nightingales, which inadvertently picked up the sound of Allied bombers on their way to Mannheim, to the laughter and clinking glasses of a garden party.