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Ground Zero Inc. 24 Hour service This diorama and audio work was made as a response to my first visit to New York in 1980, using material found on the streets and brought back to London. The American novelist William Burroughs believed that using collage techniques in his writing would occasionally reveal the future - it's strange to look back on this diorama of mine since 9-11. I stayed one block from the World Trade Centre. The title came from a radio broadcast describing the effects of a nuclear blast on Manhattan. |
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Ronald Reagan television speeches. One spoken phrase was heard every five minutes from a small tape recorder in the shape of Reagans head. Track two: Hidden speakers. Twenty minutes of collaged New York radio fragments with drum machine and synthesised sounds by John Grimaldi and Jake Tilson. The radio material included music, news, adverts and a scientific report on the effects of a nuclear attack on New York. |
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