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[Silencing Vanessa Place] Lathe cut 7”

Four and a half minutes of ‘silence’ – preparatory pauses, ambient intervals between poems, infra-mince gaps between words, etc. – sampled from various audio-documentations of readings by conceptual poet Vanessa Place (omitting her own performative silences, viz. the “Gone with the Wind” ‘white-out’). Contra the poetics of echo, here all traces of Place’s(?) speech are (being-) erased. Lathe-cut into low-grade polycarbonate, this record’s ‘silence’-inscribed microgrooves will (in turn) degrade & ultimately be erased with sufficient revolutions– repeated playback thus de-/re-materializing “ echorality ” via ablation as white noise displaces the appropriated ‘silence’(?)

Lathe cut 7”, Single-sided, 45 RPM

Spratt’s Medium SM02

Numbered edition of 20 (2nd Edition)
$15 NZ (postage inc.) 

" echorality " [Silencing Vanessa Place]

Four minutes and thirty-three seconds of silence culled from various Vanessa Place performances found on Vimeo (specifically, her readings at INSTAL 10, Nov 2010; the Greenwich Cross-Genre Festival, July 2010; the Renaissance Society, December 2011; and at Galerie Martine Aboucaya, September 2010). All of Place’s speech is erased, leaving only pauses, the noisy intervals between individual poems, and other inframince spaces. (The performed silence of Place’s own erasure piece, "Gone With the Wind by Vanessa Place", is excluded).