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“The following is a well-known story, verifiable from a variety of media outlets, but which is worth repeating here for the benefit of those whose only source of news is the iTunes catalogue:
Earlier this year, a metal ammunition case containing a large reel-to-reel tape was discovered in the locked back bedroom of an abandoned house, somewhere in upstate New York.
At first it was thought that it would never be heard. The material was fragile; it was recorded on an obscure variety of quarter-inch tape, discontinued in the early 1980s, and after years of exposure to the cold, damp environs, the tape had fused to the spindle in one solid mass.
Fortunately, the tape fell into the hands of Chuckles 'Charlie' Picnic, a retired sound engineer who, after baking the tape in a warm oven to loosen the chemical bonds, was able to piece together the original recordings. This, I'm told, is the result.
Three men sit in conversation. One of them has a high voice; one has a middle-pitched voice; one has a low voice. We know nothing more about them than this. Each is assigned a role in this peculiar ritual, and each fulfils it precisely.
The high-voiced man is prone to bursts of manic laughter and wild enthusiasm. The middle-voiced man has a certain cold-eyed cogency. The low-voiced man tends towards melancholy. He dreams of a landscape speckled by crematoria.
Considering their age, the quality of these recordings is remarkable. However, it's immediately apparent that Charlie was unable to repair the effects of 'bleed through', where magnetic data from an earlier section of the tape has merged over time with later sections in which it was in direct contact to form a kind of audio palimpsest of voices, sounds, noises, music. Whatever meaning one could ascribe to these juxtapositions is essentially accidental.
The recording is most notable for being one of the few remaining pieces of documented second-hand evidence for the film 'Citizen Kane'. In certain quarters of the internet, rabid Wellesians persist in their belief of the existence of this film. All three men behave exactly as though they had seen it: it is, perhaps, the keystone of the delusion in which they all inhabit.
The location of the house has never been disclosed.”
mrgloss via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
06/07/17
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