Transmodern Festival: Inspirational Soundhenge

Inspirational Soundhenge

In our society we’re bombarded with messages on how to become the perfect you. It suggests that if you’re not living up to your fullest potential, you are a disappointment, a failure.

The great American myth is that anyone can grow up to be president. If you have the dedication & willpower, you can be anything. Luckily, if you don’t have the strength to do it on your own, there’s a host of people waiting for you to pay them to tell you just how to do it.

“Inspirational Soundhenge” is culled from my collection of found self help tapes. These were found in the trash & thrift stores- where I’m sure the now successful business people of America had deposited them. There actually is some good advice on these tapes, but also mysterious tidbits as “A marriage has eyes, but also eyelids”.

The full effect of the white noise from all this inspiration coming at once is alternately peaceful and terrifying. The sound may soothe as waves on a shore until Susan Powter calls out to "stop the insanity!".

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