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This show Radio In Radio present a piece by Steve Roden.
“telepathic radio (lullaby) ”, august 2011
on several consecutive evenings, i recorded myself listening to a radio with headphones and humming in response to the music i heard. i changed stations often, and for the most part, responded to music i had never heard before. the listenings ran the gamut from classical music to rap to “classic rock” to mexican pop to straight up contemporary pop music, etc.
the recordings were made live in a room with an open window, and were layered on top of each other in protools. the relationship of the voices sounding together were simply a symptom of randomly laying the tracks on top of each other – hence i had no idea what to expect of such harmonies.
the title ‘telepathic radio’ was inspired by upton sinclair’s book, ‘mental radio’ in which he describes a series of esp experiments performed with his wife, who was obsessed with mental telepathy. in the sinclairs’ experiments, sinclair’s wife would sit in an isolated room of their house and draw pictures based on the images she was receiving from her husband’s mind. the resulting drawings resemble fragmented suggestions of objects or ideas.
in a similar way, the melodies heard in these recordings are fragmented suggestions of former wholes. some of them might “feel” recognizable, while others totally abstract.
while listening to the radio on headphones, i was unable to hear the sounds around me that were being recorded into the microphone, and similarly i was unable to hear my own voice humming, thus the resulting recordings contained numerous surprises.
the recordings were slightly edited and layered. no other processing occurred.