Two new additions to the project – I’ve uploaded some short videos I made in Portugal with dub mixes of the album and Mike Exarchos a.k.a. Stereo Mike has mixed a remix/arrangement I did called ‘The Wiggle’. They’re all on my YouTube channel.
A further development in the Failing Upwards saga is a four screen, four speaker installation version – based on Sara McGuinness’ Music Room idea. The first iteration of this was presented at the KISMIF Conference 2024 in Porto, Portugal at the Casa Comum, University of Porto on 11th July.
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In 2039, as he approached his 81st birthday, Zag-T stepped inside the Underground University’s ‘time machine’ which would end his life and send his newly edited DNA back to be ‘re-born’ and to live his life again. None of the team knew how many of these temporal loops had been tried previously, but this time, perhaps the Failing Upwards album would be the trigger to convince the world to overthrow the evil alien Bullingdon Boys from the planet Harvox and prevent the triple political, economic and environmental catastrophes that threatened the end of the world…
Between October 2022 and March 2023 you could follow the musical story of Zag-T Failing Upwards. From October 2022 until the end of December your brains were prepared for the album launch – drip-feeding you the shocking truth about the Bullingdon Boys’ secret invasion and take-over of the world’s financial centres, the establishment of the illegal Underground University and the brave sacrifice of multiple small teams of ‘time travellers’ struggling to overcome these enormous odds. By January 2023 your psyche was ready to experience the weekly release of these twelve music video revelations, fixing your broken ideas and releasing you from the evil yoke of Harvox repression.
https://zag-t.bandcamp.com/album/failing-upwards