Mountain Radio Redux - American Oil
Mittwoch, 03. Feb 2010,
01:00 bis 02:00 Uhr
Channeling a semi-fictional radio DJ - Retlaw Kedzu - artist Steven Rowell frames recent field recording projects with displaced geographic references and frequencies.
Steve Rowell : Mountain Radio Redux
Retlaw Kedzu is the mysterious voice Rowell discovered when he bought a reel to reel deck in 2000. On the tapes was a voice from 1972/73 seemingly broadcasting from a fictional place in the Nevada desert. Retlaw, a pseduonym, triangulates his location constantly during his radio "station breaks". This voice served as the " radio host" of mobile pirate radio broadcasts Rowell and fellow artist, Mason Cooley, performed in and around Los Angeles in 2000-2001.
Episode 1: American Oil
- Drake Well Oil Museum film featuring Vincent Price as Col Drake - Titusville, PA
- Drake Oil Well Museum working well walkthrough - Titusville ,PA
- Pumpjack - Beaumont, TX
- Oil Springs historic site pine woods - Nacogdoches, TX
- Manchester Park and Valero refinery - Houston, TX
- Rohm and Haas petrochem plant - Deer Park ,TX
- Oil show test rig - Odessa, TX
- "Leak Looker" display Permian Basin Petroleum Museum - Midland, TX
- Refinery model Museum of Natural Science - Houston, TX
- Allen Co well pumpjacks - Signal Hill, CA
- Beverly Center Mall oil well - Beverly Hills, CA
- Chevron refinery at night - El Segundo, CA
- Alvarado St church urban oil well - Los Angeles, CA
- Gas station - Syracuse, NY
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