A soundtrack to accompany the installation of Candy Chang’s Before I Die project at Wonderspaces.
A collection of five reverberated songs built from AM radio chatter and looping bits of tape.
“They’ll challenge each other to walk ten miles into Death Valley without any supplies. They wager money on it.”
A dusty ballad plays in a grand old ballroom filled with tailored men and elaborate hairdos.
One night I found a cassette tape at the bottom of a shoebox while cleaning the attic. The label said Jim Reeves Roast, June 1978.
A busted tape loop of sludgy Coltrane with a shot of Connie Francis in a ballroom filled with radio static and feedback.
He heard it somewhere southeast of El Paso. He couldn’t understand a word of it, but it was the most beautiful thing he’d ever heard.
