Orquesta Tonta and artafterscience are presenting, Devour, a live audio visual performance at the Boxing Club, Limehouse Town Hall, 646 Commercial Road, London, E14 7HA. Devour is a dada-esque exploration into consumerism running rampant, leaving a culture of zombies and the living dead to omnivorously deplete the earth’s resources as its consequence.

A montage of images using both original footage and clips from horror and sci-fi movies, and educational films from the 1950’s on shopping, gender-roles, and technology. Lyrics are also derived from cut-up segments of the dialogues and narration of these films, edited and re-arranged, all in and out of synch to the wonderful rhythms of Orquesta Tonta.

Rip the Earth is a video based on the same theme, re-editing the sound track to Heritage of Splendor, a 1963 documentary on littering and ecology narrated by Ronald Regan, but updating it to deal with the same issues of consumerism and ecology as above.

Tin Pot Dance is all about sex, dance, and repression.

"Orquesta Tonta (Idiot Orchestra) is a London based avant-guarde skiffle collective, avoiding using instruments they can play properly. They have fun. Sometimes the music sounds awful. Sometimes it is also sublime. Participants have brought different national histories to the mix. Sometimes the outcome is edited with recent technology or mixed with other music. Sometimes they use pictures and play with rules. Sometimes Tonta play live."

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