Bumps Per Minute: 18 Studies for Dodgems

by Anna Meredith

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Steven Moses Musical playfulness to the most deranged and unhinged degree. You can see the smile that Meredith wears across every track, equal parts gleeful and diabolical. Favorite track: BPM 104: Hope everyone's having a good time?.

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1.	START ENGINES 00:38	buy track
2.	BPM 100: lil' Waltzer 02:01	buy track
3.	BPM 144: Norcanoe 02:10	buy track
4.	BPM 108: Family of Rats 02:04	buy track
5.	BPM 178: Heartbreak Staircase 02:45	buy track
6.	BPM 62: Ballad of the Sea 01:35	buy track
7.	BPM 124: Deep Thought Panda 02:04	buy track
8.	BPM 112: Dr. Bonesaw goes to Crete 02:40	buy track
9.	BPM 130: Weeping Amstrad 02:20	buy track
10.	BPM 200: out-of-control Pump 01:54	buy track
11.	BPM 72: U.S.S. Seesaw 02:59	buy track
12.	BPM 104: Hope everyone's having a good time? 01:06	buy track
13.	BPM 131: Joy Subdivision 03:04 video	buy track
14.	BPM 110: Limping Haberdasher 02:20	buy track
15.	BPM 109: Has anyone seen the cat? 01:44	buy track
16.	BPM 101: Sandy Can't Fly 02:40	buy track
17.	BPM 194: Tom Cruise Runs 01:17	buy track
18.	BPM 155: Owl Tinder 02:01	buy track
19.	BPM 107: Pursued By Pigeon 01:03	buy track
20.	STOP ENGINES 00:26	buy track

about

Bumps Per Minute is a full-throttle reinvention of the traditional fairground dodgems, from Mercury Award-shortlisted composer, producer and musician Anna Meredith. It is part of the DODGE installation, which can be experienced until 22nd August at Somerset House, London.

For Bumps Per Minute, Meredith has collaborated with BAFTA-winning sound artist Nick Ryan to design a bespoke tracking technology so that every thump, bump and swerve of the 18 dodgems around the track can trigger a separate composition. This results in a kind of ultimate shuffle where high octane music and ideas compete for airtime and each performance is unique. The installation will occur approximately every hour at DODGE through the day/evening.

The idea for Bumps Per Minute came about when the composer was thinking about what might be a more pandemic-friendly replacement for the ice rink at Somerset House where she has her studio. The idea grew from there and now this summer DODGE is taking over the main courtyard at Somerset House, featuring a full smorgasbord of Yinka Ilori designs, DJs, food, drink and of course, dodgem rides.

Today, Meredith releases Bumps Per Minute: 18 Studies for Dodgems, a special extended cut of the material available to stream and download now, and pre-order on 12” vinyl via Moshi Moshi; the vinyl edition is available in five different sleeves. Bumps Per Minute: 18 Studies for Dodgems features full-length individual musical identities of all 18 dodgems – each one a bold and distinct musical track in its own right as well an intro and outro track (voiced by comedian Rob Broderick).

Enter our competition to match up the 18 BPMs with their full zesty titles and win a copy of the vinyl and a visit to DODGE - at www.bumpsperminute.com

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released July 15, 2021

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Anna Meredith London, UK

Described by Pitchfork as ‘one of the most innovative voices in British music’, Anna Meredith is a genre-crossing composer and producer whose work straddles the worlds of contemporary classical, art pop, electronica and experimental rock.

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