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- Carolina Wheat
This is a spoken, light-hearted goodbye from a woman in a relationship with the terrestrial musical airwaves. This piece personifies FM as a lover who has become sterile, repetitive, automated and disillusioned. The female narrator pleads with the transmitter while it responds with gimmicky pre-recorded sound effects. Songs in the background punctuate the emotion and is a consistent reminder of what was once beautiful, but now, lost.
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Piece Description
This is a spoken, light-hearted goodbye from a woman in a relationship with the terrestrial musical airwaves. This piece personifies FM as a lover who has become sterile, repetitive, automated and disillusioned. The female narrator pleads with the transmitter while it responds with gimmicky pre-recorded sound effects. Songs in the background punctuate the emotion and is a consistent reminder of what was once beautiful, but now, lost.
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| Sexy Back | Justin Timberlake | FutureSexLoveSounds. | RCA | 2007 | 00:10 |
| Hips Don't Lie | Shakira & Wyclef | Sony | 2007 | 00:10 | |
| Big Mouth Strikes Again | The Smiths | Louder than Bombs. | Warner Bros. | 1986 | 00:20 |
| Tears of a Clown | Smokey Robinson | Make it Happen. | Motown | 1967 | 00:30 |
| Gold Digger ft Jaimee Foxx | Kanye West | Def Jam | 2006 | 00:07 | |
| Close | Spesiman & LinaMasFina | Infoclypse | 2006 | 01:30 | |
| Din Da Da | Kevin Aviance | Wave | 1995 | 00:30 | |
| Bass | Dj Icey & DJ Godfather | DataBass | 1999 | 00:08 | |
| Too Much Booty in the Pants | Dj Assualt | DataBass | 1998 | 00:20 |
Joseph Dougherty
Posted on July 02, 2007 at 06:15 PM | Permalink
Review of Dear Radio
Breaking up is hard to do. Carolina Wheat's Dear John letter to Frequency Modulation would be funnier if it wasn't so depressingly true; if she didn't nail the relationship some of us have had with radio...intimate, forbidden, secret...and how that auditory lover has grown increasingly stupid and unresponsive. Witty and well produced, the piece would add perspective to any discussion of the concentration of corporate owned media and our personal relationship to what we listen to.