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| | | entr’acte (uk) #e30 lp esther venrooy “shift coordinate points” long playing record | | entr’acte press release... |
| esther venrooy
shift coordinate points (e30)
static. seven short electronic pulses. then - out of thin air - a woman's voice dictates: “...eins, zwei, fünf ...eins, zwo, fünf... drei, vier, fünf...” who are these voices, tirelessly reciting seemingly random series of numbers, phonems and words? and who are these cryptic messages meant for?
the messages are irreversibly encrypted, their contents unintelligible to anyone but the designated receiver. in 1997, british maverick label irdial-discs collected a selection of so called 'numbers stations' or 'spy stations' recordings under the title the conet project. this plays like a ‘best of’ of more than 30 years' worth of secret radio and contains fragments of american, german, swedish and russian transmissions. dutch-born belgian composer esther venrooy was given permission to work with the material and for the occasion of the celebration of 75 years of belgian radio created a highly personal interpretauon of the medium's secret history. using manipulated sound and collage techniques she manages to distill an abstract poetry of sounds and thereby succeeds in extracting some meaning out of these hermetic transmissions.
the title shift coordinate points refers to an excerpt from william s. burroughs' novel nova express. burroughs utilised the jargon of secret services and govemement agencies as a metaphor for systems of social , intellectual, and sexual control.
first edition of 300 copies.
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