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This is the read-along audio for the NIGHT section of an artist's book that I made entitled FAIR -- or -- An artful documentation of the final day of the 2002 Brockton Fair in video stills and stereophonic sound with attention to the dual nature of the 12-hour event. This is ambient sound with no commentary. For a more straightforward radio piece, please check out The Fair, also on PRX.
I recorded video from the fair on a digital video camera, and I recorded audio using headworn binaural microphones. I bound video stills into a book and created audio collages that correspond to the image sequence. The book is bound dos-a-dos and divided into DAY and NIGHT sections. The idea is that every fair is essentially 2 fairs: one is bright and friendly and family-oriented, and the other is dark and sexual and ominous. This is the dark and sexual and ominous bit.
For more information and to download press photos, please visit http://23grand.com/fair.
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This is the read-along audio for the NIGHT section of an artist's book that I made entitled FAIR -- or -- An artful documentation of the final day of the 2002 Brockton Fair in video stills and stereophonic sound with attention to the dual nature of the 12-hour event. This is ambient sound with no commentary. For a more straightforward radio piece, please check out The Fair, also on PRX.
I recorded video from the fair on a digital video camera, and I recorded audio using headworn binaural microphones. I bound video stills into a book and created audio collages that correspond to the image sequence. The book is bound dos-a-dos and divided into DAY and NIGHT sections. The idea is that every fair is essentially 2 fairs: one is bright and friendly and family-oriented, and the other is dark and sexual and ominous. This is the dark and sexual and ominous bit.
For more information and to download press photos, please visit http://23grand.com/fair.
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Posted on August 09, 2004 at 02:37 PM | Permalink
Review of Fair Read-Along, NIGHT
Having enjoyed a county fair for many many years, I was transported immediately to the nostalgia of these times by hearing this great piece.
For it to be successful as a radio program, however, I think that some additional running commentary should be interspersed with the audio track highlighting just where you are at the fair, the midway, the gradstand, etc etc.