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The Soy Waltz installation
The Soy Waltz is an interactive audio installation by Jace Clayton aka DJ /rupture. It makes “audible” the intersection of global economic forces and local music culture in Brabant. Continuing a project begun at last year’s Incubate, the installation uses boomboxes to play back an archive (of Stichting Brabant Volksliedarchief) of traditional Brabant music. The audience can manipulate the recordings by playing with the boomboxes, otherwise the sounds are automatically transformed by real-time information about the pig farming trade in Brabant. “The Soy Waltz” explores how an archive of traditional Brabant music can be made relevant to the reality of a hyperconnected world. It’s about an economic network with nodes of power that flows across traditional spaces – Brabant’s pig farms, fed by Latin American soy and producing meat primarily for export to east Europe.

DJ /rupture
Jace Clayton is an interdisciplinary artist living in Brooklyn. His interests include music, technology usage in low-income communities, and public space, with an emphasis on Latin America, Africa, and the Arab world. Performing as DJ /rupture, Clayton has toured internationally, DJ’ed in a band with Norah Jones, done two John Peel Sessions, and was turntable soloist with the 80-member Barcelona Symphony Orchestra. Recent collaborators include guitarist Andy Moor (The Ex) and filmmaker Jem Cohen. He has lectured at Harvard University and other educational institutions in Europe and South America. Clayton’s essays have appeared in The Washington Post, Bidoun, and n+1, and he contributes regularly to Frieze, The Fader, and The National. Jace Clayton has shown his audio installations in the Studio Museum of Harlem, and as DJ /rupture he has performed in venues such as The Whitney Museum, MoMA’s PS1, The Apollo Theater, the Pitchfork Festival, Spain’s SONAR and Incubate 2010.