DOWNLOAD SADDAMS TEETH ABRIDGED 2050KB mp3; 3 min 21 sec

This abridged version of Saddams Teeth was prepared for Reigate College Art and Drama students in June 2005 The art presentation was further developd with a projector movie accompanying the backing music.

This concept is further developed in the 21 century Trauma movie.

The clip "Saddams Teeth Extract" [background sound to this page] was judged for the BBC by Time Out Magazine Art Critic Sarah Kent on 31 October. She loved it, and said it was her favouite. She described it, as you would an art work!

It was further judged by Tate Modern Curator Emma Dexter on 21 November. The Curator decribed the production of the sound entries as, "being like how Bruce Nauman worked"! By " mucking about int the studio"!

Hear BBC BH Sounds of 2004 entries.

There was a request for listeners musical conrtibutions. This particular piece contains samples of an alarm clock ticking, my heartbeat, and radio samples as well as drums.
It is the introduction to a peice composed in 1998, but somehow it is even more befitting of the times we
live in today. Forgive me if it is not what you are after. Get in touch if you want to hear more.

Thanks,

Nick Wells,

To:- Broadcasting House,
email:- bh@bbc.co.uk.

I sent an attached music clip with my previous email. I forgot to mention that the music was named Saddams Teeth when it was composed in 1998, and not as a subsequence of the verification on his capture last year.

Thanks again,

Nick Wells

I listened to Broadcasting the following week, but heard nothing! So forgot about it!

But on Halloween Sunday, I was awoken by the ticking sound of Saddams Teeth. I vaugely recognized this as the mp3 extract on my computer previously emailed to the BBC Radio 4 Sunday morning news programme Broadcasting House. As I was awaking to think, why is it playing? There was the realisation of someone making comments about the music, and so it was actually being played on the radio, on the BBC!!. I unsuccessfully tried to reach the recorder. As in a dream, I sat and listened to BH for any details. John Peel had died a few days previously. The programme was "rounded up" with a desert island disk selection of extracts from his favourite music. I had always meant to sent John Peel "Saddams Teeth".

I had sent an email the previous day to an old friend Graham in Wales expressing my regret at not having sent Saddams Teeth to John Peel. I also mentioned that J Peels desert island disks would probably feature next morning, meaning JP`s appearance on D.I.D.

This wasn`t a dream! I was woken out of the reverie by the telephone. It was Graham. He was amazed to hear Saddams Teeth on a national news radio programme. And that I had mentioned in the email about John Peels Desert Island Discs being played.

I had to re-assure Graham that I had no previous idea of the BH agenda for that day. Although I reminded him (a pagan), that it was Halloween and that I was born on the Candlemass, so you knever know!