Tree Carr :: Oscar Is A Wanker
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OSCAR IS A WANKER A sound piece for a short film with the same title, directed by Tree and her partner Adam. OSCAR IS A WANKER is commentary on the 'ritual' of the yearly Hollywood Academy Awards Ceremony and the 'phallic' Oscar statuette that is awarded to the winners. The sound piece incorporates swirling droning electric guitars, brown noise and subliminally underneath it all, the Academy Awards theme tune slowed and pitched down to demonic proportions. It was shown as a film installation in 2010 at The Royal Dalston Hotel in London during Frieze Art Fair. Tree Carr (US/UK) :: is an American musician, filmmaker and actress living in London UK. She has worked with artist and composer, Christian Marclay featured playing a 20 minute electric guitar noise piece in his short film SOLO. The film was commissioned by The Whitechapel Art Gallery in London and has been shown at galleries internationally. Tree was tutored by the godfather of electroacoustic improvisation, Keith Rowe. She has also created sound pieces for London artists Tim Noble & Sue Webster to accompany films of their work. For the past 10 years she has been in a variety of London based bands and has recorded with/performed with Adam Ant … Peaches ….Primal Scream … and has released her own material on Label Catastrophic as 'Ten Minutes with My Dad' One of her songs, 'Party With The Devil' was released on Rough Trade as part of The Best of Counter Culture Compilation 2004.She also hosts a weekly radio show called 'Today is Boring' on Resonance 104.4 FM WEB:: Film Production: www.todayisboring.com