AN APPOINTMENT TO LISTEN – A Wilson Brothers installation for IMPRINT-WORKS exploring sound, form, colour and culture.

Paying homage to UK + Jamaican sound system culture, mixed with 70’s – 90’s home hi-fi play-back equipment and a touch of mobile DJ style – Appointment is a custom piece of ‘audio intrigue’.

Forever grateful for the broad musical knowledge / guidance shared by a select group of British ‘Heritage’ radio D-J’s – Appointment visually maps our own journey through sounds over the last 30 years, creating a musical focal point within the IMPRINT space for all-day listening and special events.

Approximately 2,500 records in our collection were selected based on personal memories from a lifetime’s worth of radio shows, associated tapes and the parties that followed. The centre labels from each record were photographed and printed onto a fabric textured sticker, these were then individually applied by hand to the exterior faces of the Appointment speaker structure.

“Back in the day we’d say – which DJ’s do you listen to?..  Emperor Roscoe? Radio 1, Saturday lunchtime / late Saturday morning – no one missed Emperor Roscoe – no one!  ..Kenny Everett, on capital Radio? – No – you weren’t going to miss Kenny!  .. And that was it – it was an appointment to listen, – to DJ’s”.

“I think it is very VERY important, that we still have – radio – that hones in on particular types of music. Because particular types of music – are – very important to some people, and I think that’s what makes radio so special… It’s pictures in the mind’, and when you listen to someone who really cares about what they’re playing – it’s fantastic, it’s AN APPOINTMENT TO LISTEN.”

David ‘Ram-Jam’ Rodigan MBE OD, in conversation with Gilles Peterson MBE, July 2011 on BBC Radio 1.