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Damian Catera (2006)
" Hacking Apart The American Airwaves During A Period
of Corporate Fascism & Declining
Empire"
The advent of radio in the US during the early part of the 20th century ushered in a new period of mass brainwashing never before seen in history. Suddenly, literacy was a non-factor in the dissemination of information and propaganda blended potently with entertainment. An entire population was mobilized for war with an enemy (Nazi Germany), which was an ally only a few years earlier, while the mass imprisonment of innocent Japanese-Americans was systematically legitimized with the help of this powerful new medium.
In the early 21st century, American radio is still a powerful mass brainwashing tool. The rise in right- wing talk radio mobilizes a new generation to accept the corporate fascist agenda of militarized world domination while the smattering of “left” oriented programming creates an illusion of pluralism and democracy.
In this improvised performance, three live radios will be sampled and randomly manipulated with algorithms, which I wrote in the MAX/MSP programming environment. In the resulting real-time montage, the dialectical tools of order and chaos will be used to unearth the not so hidden subtext of an empire in decline…perhaps its last gasps for control. The voice of America’s fear and paranoia turned back on itself through the decentralized medium of web radio.LIVE AIR TRANSMISSION ON APRIL 7, 2006, 9:30-11:30AM EST. 4:30-6:30 PM GMT.
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