'Ruck'

‘Ruck’ is a work made in response to a piece of music by contemporary international composer Duncan MacLeod, a regular musical collaborator for Jambon.

Part of the idea behind the music (originally commissioned by the Goldberg Ensemble) was the concept of something bubbling under the surface.

Jambon’s response to this was to pull two sets of US governmental archive footage together – one film depicting how 1950s teenagers should be courting one another, and the second from the same era showing young men being subjected to atomic bomb blast experiments in the desert. These two films were cut to the music track and then layered on to one another.

The work was premiered at the Muziekgebouwaan'tij in Amsterdam.