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… i listen to the wind that obliterates my traces

Cover image of ...i listen to the wind that obliterates my traces
Cover image of ...i listen to the wind that obliterates my traces

51 vintage recordings from 1925-1955 and a 184 page PDF with 150 sepia photographs.

 

Compiled by Steve Roden

… i listen to the wind that obliterates my traces brings together a collection of early photographs related to music, a group of 78rpm recordings, and short excerpts from various literary sources that are contemporary with the sound and images. It is a somewhat intuitive gathering, culled from artist Steve Roden’s collection of thousands of vernacular photographs related to music, sound, and listening. 

Recordings and images conspire towards a consistent mood that is anchored by the book’s title, which binds such disparate things as an early recording of an American cowboy ballad, a poem by a Swedish Nobel laureate, a recording of crickets created artificially, and an image of an itinerant anonymous woman sitting in a field, playing a guitar. The book also contains an essay by Roden.

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