Squeezebox Jukebox
performance, 2009
The performance Squeezebox Jukebox was commissioned for the fourth Tate Triennal, Altermodern at Tate Britain. Everyday two people were invited to play a song from the archive A Jukebox of People Trying to Change the World on the world’s largest functioning accordion. The songs included versions of The Cutty Wren, an English song often attributed to the Peasant's Revolt of 1381 and Woodman Spare That Tree! (1837), thought to be one of the first environmental protest songs ever written.
A total of forty songs were transposed for the giant accordion which was leant to Tate Britain by its maker, Giancarlo Francenella, who built the instrument in 2000 in Castelfidardo, Italy.
