The Hollow Tree Line (2009)
Call 206-426-5613 | September 21 - October 4, 2009
Participate! Tell a story about being home or away on the Great Plains.
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The Lost Technologies Hotline is a found sound poem, an audio cut up compiled from voicemail messages amassed during a nine day period in early 2008, set to an electronic score by Nick Ott. Prompted by meditations on the payphone and other vanishing forms of technology, I set up a free voicemail box and invited friends, family, classmates, acquaintances and strangers to deposit an anonymous story, song, or howl about being lost or losing something or someone –abstract or material, immense or tiny–in some way related to New York. I asked people to consider not just things, but abstract systems–such as identity, spiritual or political beliefs, or even relationships–as technologies that we use to navigate our ways through the world. The calls that came in were funny and strange and provocative and sad. A longer, unscored version of this sound piece originally played at the Outrageous Look Gallery in Brooklyn as part of Famous Magazine’s exhibit for Issue 10: Nobody’s Famous in New York.