Tape loop but playing with the radio side of it.

here is a short video where I have a loop playing in the background while I flick through radio channels. This aspect is inspired something I read where you can communicate with the dead with the use of radios. it a series of tape recordings made by The Ghost Orchid: An Introduction to EVP.

I think another two men called Friedrich Juergenson and Raymond Cass also had a part to play within the parapsychology community. Here is a section of the transcript which inspired this piece.

here is the transcript -

Voices of unknown origin appearing on radio frequencies were first noticed by Scandanavia by the military in the thirties. They were put down at the time to secret Nazi transmitters, but the voices spoke in unknown and mixed tongues. And after the war, no record of secret Nazi transmissions ever came to light. The voices didn't stop after war, but their rapidity and their transient nature precluded static. That is, before the tape recorder came into common usage in the fifties. A group of radio hams in Chicago studied the strange transmissions. Male and female voices, speaking in colored melodies and lyrical tones.

But it was not until 1959 that a Russian born Swedish citizen, radio and TV producer and filmmaker, Friedrich Juergenson, noticed intrusions on tape, and commenced his own systematic study. A disturbing fact soon emerged. The voices zeroed in on the Swede, addressing him by name, revealing a knowledge of his thoughts and actions, and claiming to be the the voices of deceased friends and acquaintances. The news spread rapidly, and soon experimenters and scientists all over the world were attempting to duplicate Juergonson's work.

The effect on parapsychologists was dramatic. Accustomed to investigating the blind forces of artifacts through endless and somewhat boring amount of dice guessing experiments, they were confronted with living voices, which answered back. Taken by surprise, the British parapsychologists, without conducting experiments, rejected the objectivity of the voices, explaining them as breakthroughs from police messages, or simply mechanical noises from the tape recorder. But their European counterparts were more cautious, and possibly, with greater technical resources, they soon found out that they were indeed confronted with voices of unknown origin on tape.

youtube link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cuLGZNpvtE

Still Painting

Creating this one was incredibly fun but it did get really dangerous as I started to play around with different chemicals.

This is what I would do to the canvas

Rub bleach into the back of the canvas and leave it to soak overnight

Then pour boiling water onto the back of the canvas.

Put canvas into the freezer and leave over night

Id then pour boiling water onto the frozen canvas, this would make the canvas become brittle and split.

Id then add more bleach

At this point I added Isopropyl alcohol onto the mix of bleach. (I did not realise mixing bleach with different chemicals can be really dangerous) I discovered this makes chloroform. when the smell hit my nostrils I knew it wasn't a good mix because it was burning. so i put it outside and washed it with water.

I then dried it by putting it in the oven for 20mins.

-I did do the same process with the other ones which I destroyed aswell.

PAINting

I started to experiment with destroying/deteriorating the pieces. with this piece, I started by covering the canvas with a layer of polyfilla, then once that was dry paint my idea onto it.

when it was dry I tried cracking the plaster but I wasn't having any luck wit that.

I then added a layer of UV curable resin. Once the resin was cured, I then went and peeled it off the canvas, this took lots of the oil paint off with it, which gave it a interested aspect to it. then once I had scraped all the resin off, I gave it a slight glaze using yellow pigment. This made It look a little bit more weathered but not as much as I wanted it to be.