{"id":25363,"date":"2017-04-25T07:37:30","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=25363"},"modified":"2017-04-25T07:37:30","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:37:30","slug":"requiem-for-radio-amanda-dawn-christies-performance-piece-honoring-rci-sackville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/requiem-for-radio-amanda-dawn-christies-performance-piece-honoring-rci-sackville\/","title":{"rendered":"Requiem For Radio: Amanda Dawn Christie’s performance piece honoring RCI Sackville"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Source: Amanda Dawn Christie via Twitter)<\/p><\/div>\n

(Source: CBC News<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Moncton artist bringing back sounds of former Sackville Radio-Canada towers<\/h2>\n

A Moncton artist has brought back to life the sounds of the 13 CBC Radio-Canada International shortwave towers that once stood in Sackville, N.B. on the Tantramar Marsh.<\/p>\n

“It’s kind of like you’re conjuring ghosts of radio towers,” explained the artist Amanda Dawn Christie on Shift N.B.<\/em><\/p>\n

Requiem For Radio: Full Quiet Flutter<\/h3>\n

The experimental sound art project Requiem For Radio: Full Quiet Flutter<\/em> involves a scale model of the original towers, but a large model \u2014\u00a0about 16-metres wide, six-metres deep and five-metres tall.<\/p>\n

Christie said the towers have red lights resembling the originals. They are made from pipes with four copper pads on each tower.<\/p>\n

She added that when someone touches one of the copper pads, a wireless signal is sent to a computer, which then sends a sound file back to that tower of the actual, recorded sound the original tower made when it was operational. The sound is transmitted through a speaker on the model tower.<\/p>\n

[…]But the model towers are more than something to be gazed upon and admired. They are musical instruments that Christie and two other musicians will be playing at one-hour performances on May 26 and 27 at the Aberdeen Cultural Centre in Moncton. The performances will also be broadcast on radio stations in Moncton, Montreal and New York.[…]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Continue reading at CBC News…<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: CBC News) Moncton artist bringing back sounds of former Sackville Radio-Canada towers A Moncton artist has brought back to life the sounds of the 13 CBC Radio-Canada International shortwave towers that once stood in Sackville, N.B. on the Tantramar Marsh. “It’s kind of like you’re conjuring ghosts of radio towers,” explained the artist Amanda […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[508,3,305,43],"tags":[2674,29,1197,6142,1043,1840],"class_list":["post-25363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-2","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-shortwave-radio","tag-amanda-dawn-christie","tag-cbc","tag-rci-sackville","tag-requiem-for-radio","tag-sackville-new-brunswick","tag-spectres-of-shortwave"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-6B5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16757,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/spectres-of-shortwave-near-completion\/","url_meta":{"origin":25363,"position":0},"title":"Spectres of Shortwave: near completion","author":"Thomas","date":"January 12, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Richard Langley, who shares this CBC New Brunswick article about Amanda Dawn Christie's film, Spectres of Shortwave: (Source: CBC) Amanda Dawn Christie launching documentary about demise of RCI towers Documentary 'Spectres of Shortwave' to be finished in time for possible premiere at Toronto's Hot\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Art"","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/art-2\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"SackvilleCurtainAntennas","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/SackvilleCurtainAntennas.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/SackvilleCurtainAntennas.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/SackvilleCurtainAntennas.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3230,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/rcis-sackville-towers-to-be-featured-in-film\/","url_meta":{"origin":25363,"position":1},"title":"RCI’s Sackville towers to be featured in film","author":"Thomas","date":"April 7, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: CBC) A Moncton artist is now working against the clock to film the Radio-Canada International shortwave towers in her latest film project. 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