Nick Brooke on "Border Towns"

Border Towns explores how recordings have reengineered the psychological landscape of the U.S. Even in the earliest days of the phonograph, regional musical styles flourished on records, bucking the notion that mass marketing centralized taste and erased local difference. Border Towns is assembled from field recordings of radio, television, stereos, and ambient sounds in 12 towns located on the literal fringes of the U.S. These samples are reconstructed into pieces reflecting on location, recording, and culture. The performers lipsynch, sing, and coordinate their movements precisely with a dense score of sound effects, pop song fragments, and prerecorded text.

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• performing
• arts
• sampling
• here
• center
• lip
• synch
• regional
• music