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1 sound disc (17 minutes) : 33 1/3 rpm, stereo. Cover title. "Title from container. Numbered edition of 100 copies. Side A. Radio Kills 1901-1919 (8 min., 32 sec.) -- Side B. Radio Kills 1919-1920 (8 min., 45 sec.). Concept, design: Franceso Spampinato. Sound Engineer: Silver Verlicchi. Radio Kills is a sound collage inspired by the heavy-metal cult movie Trick or Threat (1986) in which a record played backwards contains subliminal messages that encourage violence and murder. In Radio Kills it is the radio to be heard backwards: Italian music, commercial, religious and political radio stations. Like Trick or Threat, Radio Kills contains subliminal messages too: a speech that Guglielmo Marconi recorded in 1932 where the inventor of the radio recalls the basic steps of the birth of the wireless transmissions from 1901 to 1920. Radio Kills is a reflection on the role of radio in the history of technological revolutions and the importance of the city of Bologna in the evolution of the uses of this medium, as birthplace of Marconi but also of the pirate radio station Radio Alice in the 1970s.--artists' website. Library has copy no. 88 numbered and signed by the artist. Gift of the artist. Record is accompanied by a compact disc which contains both sides of the vinyl record, copied by the artist.
Curated title for RISD Archives & Special Collections exhibition Now Hear This, fall 2023. "
Identifier
Spampinato_RadioKills.pdf
Publication Date
2007
Imprint/Year
[Italy?] : Starlab Productions & Silver Fuckin' Records, 2007.
RISD Fleet Library Catalog Record
Publisher
Starlab Productions & Silver Fuckin' Records
Keywords
radio (telecommunication system); sound (acoustics); technology; sound art; Now Hear This exhibition, fall 2023
Disciplines
Book and Paper | History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology
Recommended Citation
Spampinato, Francesco; Collections, Special; and Library, Fleet, "Radio Kills" (2007). Art History. 24.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_books_arthistory/24