Across-Offshoot
Interaction as Pure Sound
Across-Offshoot–by Keiko Uneshi (o.blaat)–was recorded and broadcast by ORF radio in Vienna in April of 2005. In the words of the artist it is an ‘acoustic laptop’ recording with radio and laptop computer interaction as pure sound. One of these pure sounds became the feedback that Keiko Uenishi, aka o.blaat, used for her radio piece “across-offshoot.” The artist used a portable radio to create feedback in the laptop speaker. As we listen we hear airwave communication between two everyday devices – laptop and transistor radio – in the form of feedback off the FM carrier frequency. Listen to Across-Offshoot (.mov)
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