2014
Single-channel video with headphone sound
13:00
drafted was made on walks through suburban Buffalo, New York. The images show ordinary surroundings along a major road and in the neighborhoods around it: fields, tall grass, skies, power lines, a radio tower. The sound was gathered on the same walks with a handheld recorder that picked up whatever the radio caught: static, songs, conversations, and commercials from several stations.
The audio moves unpredictably from one fragment to the next. None of these transitions were planned, yet as they follow one another, the listener begins to hear a continuity, as if the mind were building coherence out of noise. Played at low volume through headphones, the sound stays close to the ear while the landscape stays on the screen, and attention moves between the two. The radio tower in the images is the only visible sign of the signals filling the headphones.
Note: The original installation plays at a very low volume, so the sound can be heard only through headphones or an amplifier. The video presented below has amplified audio.
