Vital Weekly 787 MICHAEL ESPOSITO & HEIDI HARMAN – NOTHING BY MOUTH (CDR by Firework Edition) With this, I got a handwritten letter, of which I like to quote a big portion: “I released it as a short run CDR because the first track was in such a demand from the ghost hunting community. I created the test composition from sounds of actually equipment used at the old South Pittsburg Hospital during its high point in the 70s and 80s. While playing the track at the Hospital lights would flicker, video camera’s would distort and turn off and on, a laptop slid across the floor on it’s own (I was sitting next to it) which we have on film and a tool we use, the Frank’s box, which is an Am/fm radio scanner, that doesn’t stop when it locks onto a signal, was, screaming ‘stop, stop, please help help, stop, stop’. The second track was built from the EVP captured during these experiments”. Nothing much else, beyond the niceties belonging to letters, so that would leave me with a few questions. To what extend is this captured in situ in the 70s and 80s, or does it just uses sounds from the hospital? And what are the EVP we are supposed to hear? Aren’t they also part of the first piece? The two pieces sound quite similar, which I why I consider this. Its all quite scary music anyway. The peeps of heart machines, flat liners occasionally, sighing and breathing makes some high and mighty horror movie music. It bleeps like the whole ward is immediate threat (aliens?, zombies?) of utmost danger. Maybe I’m hearing too much in this. Maybe this much like a performance documentation thing, of which we don’t get to see what it looked like. Maybe that’s alright, I thought, since it leaves so much more to guess. Maybe two similar recordings of exactly the same length is a bit much? (FdW)

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