SONDHEIM, ALAN - Short Wave: Anomalous Recordings (1991)

Edition of 100. "Booklet" is a single piece of folded cardstock printed inside and out, reproducing Sondheim's "Another Mother of Us All (A Phenomenology of Short-Wave)" (originally printed in 1983). "From the Vault of the American poet, critic, musician, artist, and theorist of cyberspace, Alan Sondheim. Cor Ardens is thrilled present this intimate window into Sondheim’s longtime study of Anomalous Shortwave Radio signals. These recordings were transferred in all their generous warmth from original cassette home recordings made during the year 1991. They are presented in Long-Form excerpts, without editorial manipulations towards a kind of human musicality. They are presented in their pure form- as document. Sondheim’s accompanying 1983 essay “Another Mother of Us All (A phenomenology of short wave” describes Short-Wave as an ‘interactive medium’ in which ‘The Listener moves across the globe, through vagaries of weather and international politics, to envelop herself’ an experience at