Random Acts of Elevator Music has been played on NTS in shows including Sanpo Disco, featured first on 18 September 2019. Songs played include Waiting in the Foyer.

Random Acts of Elevator Music is the latest project from City Frequencies, a collaboration between Matt Adair and Nick Wilson, who work together on sound projects within the metropolitan environment.

In their interview to the Comic Box programme Matt and Nick told how they were making their "random acts" "appearing spontaneously in elevators throughout the city" at the various office buildings.

By 2017 those experiments resulted in the album CA052: RANDOM ACTS OF ELEVATOR MUSIC released at the Clan Analogue label. The annotation stated: "When Random Acts of Elevator Music first appeared a decade ago, striding the streets in business attire with their portable studio hidden in briefcases, they struck terror into the hearts of security guards and HR departments throughout the CBD. What would happen to their performance bonuses if Random Acts of Elevator Music successfully infiltrated their office buildings and enlightened the consciousness of their workers with live muzaktronica?

Now appreciators of ambient tones and soothing melodies will be simultaneously delighted and challenged with the Random Acts of Elevator Music album. The surface sheen of new age synths and major key melodies is overlaid with glitch aesthetics, low-fi production, improv attitude and a Situationist philosophy drawn from the elevator jam sessions where this music began."

The original City Frequencies installation was a live surround-sound audiovisual performance held at the Melbourne Town Hall for the 2000 Next Wave Festival, utilising the sounds and sights of the Melbourne CBD as source material. City Frequencies also included material in the Australian Sound Design Project’s Hearing Place for the 2003 International Symposium of World Forum of Acoustic Ecology.

In 2004 City Frequencies recorded the conversations of Fitzroy café-goers at Kent Street Cafe, using the tapes to create the Café Voyeur installation for the Fringe Festival that year. The installation was presented again during 2005 in a listening gallery environment and is now being remixed for surround-sound DVD release.

Random Acts of Elevator Music has been developed over the last few years with discrete showcase performances in the Electundra festival at Loop Bar and an exploratory series of elevator performances.

City Frequencies: http://www.akm.net.au/cityfreqs