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Joshua Bonnetta // Strange Lines and Distances LP + DVD

Joshua Bonnetta // Strange Lines and Distances LP + DVD

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Record + DVD released by Canadian acoustic writer Joshua Bonnetta on Experiencemedia in 2014.

Italian inventor who developed wireless communicationGuglielmo Marconi's installation recording of a transatlantic radio broadcast.BonnettaI visited the place where Marconi actually transmitted the radio waves, looked to the past, and tried to listen.

Includes two deep listening songs by shortwave radio and field recording that blur the boundary between natural and artificial sounds.

 

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Edition of 500. Special Edition featuring:
-DVD of the film
-12 ”Vinyl LP containing an extended score
-Printed inner sleeve with Monograph by Jeffrey Sconce

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Photographed and recorded on location in St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada and Poldhu, Cornwall, UK

Experimedia:

"'Strange Lines and Distances'is an award winning two-channel audio-visual installation, which examines Guglielmo Marconi's first transatlantic radio broadcast. The work is inspired by Marconi's belief that sound never diminishes, but rather grows incrementally fainter and fainter. He believed that with Strange Lines and Distances looks at and listens to the past, revisiting Marconi's original transmission sites in order to explore the hauntological aspects of radio and landscape. The Installation was shown at Forum Expanded within. the Berlinale 2013. "

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Artist bio:

"Joshua BONNETTA (1979, Canada) is an assistant professor in the department of Cinema, Photography and Media Arts and an interdisciplinary artist working with film, video and sound in theatrical exhibitions, performances and installations. His work has been screened worldwide at several important films. festivals. In 2009, Bonnetta received the National Film Board of Canada Award for'Best emerging / mid-career Canadian filmmaker'.
(selection) A Critical Mass (2004, instal), By Grace (2006, short), Long Shadows (2009, short), Frame to Frame (2009, instal), American Color (2012, short), Strange Lines and Distances ( 2012, short)
* Strange Lines and Distances SH-2013
It was over 100 years ago that Marconi successfully made the first trans-Atlantic radio transmission. Strange Lines and Distances links radio stations in Newfoundland, Canada and Cornwall, England, that lie 3,500 km apart, into a single atmospheric image and sound work. "

Artist: Joshua Bonnetta 

Label: Experimedia

Record + DVD released by Canadian acoustic writer Joshua Bonnetta on Experiencemedia in 2014.

Italian inventor who developed wireless communicationGuglielmo Marconi's installation recording of a transatlantic radio broadcast.BonnettaI visited the place where Marconi actually transmitted the radio waves, looked to the past, and tried to listen.

Includes two deep listening songs by shortwave radio and field recording that blur the boundary between natural and artificial sounds.

tobira recs4 · Joshua Bonnetta Excerpt

 

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Edition of 500. Special Edition featuring:
-DVD of the film
-12 ”Vinyl LP containing an extended score
-Printed inner sleeve with Monograph by Jeffrey Sconce

***

Photographed and recorded on location in St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada and Poldhu, Cornwall, UK

Experimedia:

"'Strange Lines and Distances'is an award winning two-channel audio-visual installation, which examines Guglielmo Marconi's first transatlantic radio broadcast. The work is inspired by Marconi's belief that sound never diminishes, but rather grows incrementally fainter and fainter. He believed that with Strange Lines and Distances looks at and listens to the past, revisiting Marconi's original transmission sites in order to explore the hauntological aspects of radio and landscape. The Installation was shown at Forum Expanded within. the Berlinale 2013. "

***

Artist bio:

"Joshua BONNETTA (1979, Canada) is an assistant professor in the department of Cinema, Photography and Media Arts and an interdisciplinary artist working with film, video and sound in theatrical exhibitions, performances and installations. His work has been screened worldwide at several important films. festivals. In 2009, Bonnetta received the National Film Board of Canada Award for'Best emerging / mid-career Canadian filmmaker'.
(selection) A Critical Mass (2004, instal), By Grace (2006, short), Long Shadows (2009, short), Frame to Frame (2009, instal), American Color (2012, short), Strange Lines and Distances ( 2012, short)
* Strange Lines and Distances SH-2013
It was over 100 years ago that Marconi successfully made the first trans-Atlantic radio transmission. Strange Lines and Distances links radio stations in Newfoundland, Canada and Cornwall, England, that lie 3,500 km apart, into a single atmospheric image and sound work. "

Artist: Joshua Bonnetta 

Label: Experimedia