Steve Roden
transmissions (voices of objects and skies)
DRM4125
October 11, 2024
Digital
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transmissions (voices of objects and skies) was created for the exhibition transmissions from space at the fresno metropolitan museum. the entire body of work included sound, painting, drawing, and sculpture – everything inspired by john glenn’s first transmission from space, as well as rimbaud’s poem “vowels” in which each vowel is given a color equivalent. the sound installation consisted of 102 color coded tin cans hanging in a dark room – one for each vowel in glenn’s text. 64 of the cans contained small audio speakers playing an 8 channel soundwork, while other cans contained small 4 watt colored lightbulbs. the source material was recordings of satellites by amateur astronomers from the 1960s through the 1980s. these sounds have been processed and transformed electronically.
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released October 11, 2024
this edition contains a stereo version of the installation that was re-worked for home listening and regular stereo speakers.
Mastered by Lawrence English at Negative Space
