Music

2 radio solos [sound recording] / Michael Snow.

Snow, Michael, 1929- (Author).

Summary:

2 Radio Solos employs a radio as instrument to create 2 different solo compositions. Michael Snow elucidates: "These 2 short-wave pieces are both "played" continuous improvisations. There was no editing, no post-facto electronic alteration. The sounds were found by paying intense attention to fate tuning in and out and between stations, changing bands, bass, treble and volume. The radio played is a circa 1962 Nordmende (pictured). The gradual change in pitch and speed on SHORT WAVELENGTH is an "accident": batteries were losing power during recording. The tapes were made at night in a remote North Canadian cabin lit by a kerosene lamp..............."--Art Metropole website.

Record details

Physical Description: sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Publisher: Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto Mississauga, Toronto :

Content descriptions

General Note:	Title from container. Recordings of late night wave radio in northern Canada. These recordings were made "tuning in and out of stations, changing bands and bass treble volume". Originally recorded and released on cassette in 1988, 2 Radio Solos has been re-published on CD by Blackwood Gallery in conjunction with their current exhibition, awashawave. Originally released by Freedom in a Vaccuum in 1988.
Formatted Contents Note:	Short wavelength -- The papaya plantations.
Participant or Performer Note:	Michael Snow.