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HWY
SONG consists of a circa 1920s Stella acoustic guitar with a video
monitor fitted into its sound hole. The monitor plays a silent cut-up
loop of a stretch of highway as seen from a moving car, a subtle evocation
of the American road movie, the road song, and the potent
and persistent mythology of the guitar. Plenty of highway songs have been
written, this is a visual ode to them all.
The video was shot with a toy Pixel camera and then tinted, edited and
generally fukked with further. The piece is one of a number of 'modified
instruments' I have been building of late.
It has been exhibited during my sound/installation show 'We are Everywhere
and Nowhere, All at Once' at Studio 5 Beekman in NYC in May 1999, and
also as part of a sound installation I made for the Copenhagen Museum
of Contemporary Art's show entitled 'SSSHHHH...', in November 1999. In
April 2000 it will be on display as part of the 'Sonic Boom' show at the
Hayward Gallery in London's Royal Festival Hall.
Lee Ranaldo '00
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