And This One's Introduced By... Susan King introducing tracks from Antediluvian Rocking Horse

Thursday, 27 May 2021 - 11:30pm to Friday, 28 May 2021 - 12:30am

Antediluvian Rocking Horse are a project who produce music and soundscapes that are entirely recycled from other recorded works, formed in 1994 by two artists Paul Wain,  and Susan King who dubbed themselves DJ2 and DJ3 respectively.  Paul was a sculptor and graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts and Susan is a collage artist, writer and Anti-copyright advocate. Ollie Olsen of Max Q, Taipan Tiger Girls and other electronic outfits also contributed.

Susan King addressed the eighth biennial Copyright Law & Practice Symposium, 7 November 1997 on the topic of fair dealing for copyrighted materials in art. In a lecture delivered to then Attorney-General of Australia Daryl Williams, she argued that the re-use of culture should be encouraged, not hindered and litigated. In Susan King was interviewed in the  Sydney Morning Herald,  and described as Australia's "lone voice of dissent" in her public call for the lessoning of copyright law. At around this time, she also assisted Negativland in its campaign to sue the Recording industry association of America.

Antediluvian Rocking Horse insists that all its works are 'one hundred per cent recycled'. This is apparent in pieces like September Shuffle, a track that features excerpts from Fox News, The Pixies and, possibly, the KLF.

In reviewing ARH's first international release, Dom Phillips of Mixmag wrote,imagine techno, yet constructed with burps, old samples and rocking through a gallery of strange voices, cut-ups, '70's elevator music run backwards...the lot....crazy channel hopping mish-mash, yet it all works!

Diane Lowry, then editor of Electronic Musician, named the Antediluvian Rocking Horse album Music for the Odd Occasion, Best Electronic Album for May 1997

Techno dance group  Antediluvian Rocking Horse  approaches the editing of samples and tape loops the same as MTV cuts videos: fast and furious. Paul Wain, Susan King, and Ollie Olsen chop up, reverse, layer, and fade in and out television and radio broadcasts, found sounds, movies, vinyl, and CDs, thereby constantly changing the aural pictures.

Listen to Susan King with Paul Elliott on And This One's Introduced By... on Planet X here on 3CR.

More info about Antediluvian Rocking Horse HERE