Available from Zed on CBC: Banned Width
The composer’s electro-acoustic journey to the center of the murky world of the forbidden and the banned is a byteing comment on the amorphic, enduring force of censorship.
The sound chamber reverberates with a recitation of titles captured by the sword of the censor, categorized, then banished from bookshelves.
Mixed into the texture are samples of offensive/objectionable phrases transformed into a drone cyborg-like voice from a list embedded in filtering software.
The more things seem to change the more they seem to remain the same.
Note: Recent USA decisions now require all public libraries to install Internet Filtering software or forgo funding.
Composed, produced and performed by Bob Turner © 2004 SOCAN
Mixed by Yannis Fyssas - Hybrid Studios - fyssas.com music production