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After listening to the sounds of cloth being ripped and cut and ultimately used to gag someone, a muffled voice wonders about the dead stories we tell. Sound-rich and eerily real, the voice returns in two other parts of the "Speech Acts" series ("Bound" and "Stutter"). "Gagged" can be aired alone, but is best played as a whole series, total length: 27:03.
Suggested airplay order is as follows:
1. Bound
2. Echo
3. Gagged
4. Silence
5. Stutter
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Piece Description
After listening to the sounds of cloth being ripped and cut and ultimately used to gag someone, a muffled voice wonders about the dead stories we tell. Sound-rich and eerily real, the voice returns in two other parts of the "Speech Acts" series ("Bound" and "Stutter"). "Gagged" can be aired alone, but is best played as a whole series, total length: 27:03. Suggested airplay order is as follows: 1. Bound 2. Echo 3. Gagged 4. Silence 5. Stutter
Broadcast History
The series and/or individual pieces have aired at the following venues:
2006
-Technical Breakdown, listening posts installation, Forum for Sound Art (Copenhagen)
-2-CD catalogue, Technical Breakdown www.aux.dk
2005
-Magnetic Tape, WZBC-FM, Boston
2004
-Re: sound, WBEZ-FM, Chicago
-Where?s the Beat? Radio McGill, CKUT-FM, Montreal
2003
-Radio Lab, WNYC-FM, New York
-The Radio Chronicles, KPFA-FM, Berkeley
-Audible Woman, CIUT-FM, Toronto
2002
-ResonanceFM, London
-Radio Eye, The Night Air, Australia Broadcasting Corporation
2001
-The Next Big Thing, WNYC-FM, New York
-art@radio, WMBC-FM (online)
-Third Coast International Audio Festival (online)
-d>art 01, dLux media arts festival, Paddington, Australia
-Digital Thaw Festival, Institute for Cinema & Culture , University of Iowa
2000
-Outer Ear, Festival of Sound, Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago
