Join us for a free one-day presentation of Al Andalus, an audio-visual installation by Nottingham artists Claude Money and Meg Wall.
Musically, the installation makes a globally influenced offering to the modern school of electronic, instrumental Hip-Hop with large helpings of modern British jazz, traditional Andalusian sounds and Arabic modalities.
Accompanying the music are Lo-Fi stop-frame animations, bringing still, multi-layered artworks to life. The visual inspiration for the work lies in key motifs, colours and iconography from Andalusian history and culture both ancient and modern, concepts inherent to the soul of the music itself.
The rhythms and visual dynamics within the animations were not automated but were responsive to the atmospheres created by the music.
Claude Money is a music producer based in Nottingham by way of Singapore and Spain. He has worked with a number of artists, including Chaka Khan, Taka Boom, Emily Makis, President T, Windowkid, and Snowy, and has also created bespoke pieces of music for television and film. Outside of music, he is a PhD researcher at Nottingham Trent University working on recovering the hidden histories of Nottingham’s rich Hip-Hop heritage, a critically overlooked area of UK art and culture.
Meg Wall is an academic at Nottingham Trent University where she lectures in visual communication techniques to undergraduate students. As a creative practitioner, she is an illustrator and animator whose art centres around telling human stories.