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An excerpt from the introduction to Christy Romanick's book very large array by Mike Langlie: "Christy doesn't offer immediate or literal interpretation of her mostly untitled work. Perhaps her open canvases obscure faces, time, and scale to allow our subconsciousness to fill in the details. While exploring a scene it's easy to feel like an integral character, as if the picture was calmly waiting for us to complete its dialog. Each time I revisit a piece the story changes and evolves.
New Mexico's Very Large Array is an appropriate site for Christy's lens. The radar dishes seem to ask the same questions that I do when seeing her images. Where am I and why am I here? Is there something or someone else there with me, hiding in plain sight or just out of frame? What wonders can I find by shifting my perspective? Christy is skilled in making the familiar seem otherworldly. I like to think she uses her camera to create the set dressing of dreams."
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Christy Romanick's "Very Large Array" book features a series of colored photographs shot in San Agustin, New Mexico. Christy captures the beauty and eeriness of the VLA satellites occupying an isolated desert landscape. Also included is an exclusive 30 minute soundtrack cd titled "Transmissions to 3774379 258421 13S" by Montreal musician Thisquietarmy.
To read more about the book and to hear 3 of the songs off the soundtrack please go here:space30a
Space30a is releasing the 20 page soft-covered 5.75 x 7.75 book available NOW. This is the first pressing of 75 signed and numbered copies. The cost is $25 US dollars for US orders, $29 US dollars for international orders. Pay Pal preferred:
christy@space30a.com
About Thisquietarmy:
Thisquietarmy is the ambient/drone project of Eric Quach, from Montreal post-shoegazer band Destroyalldreamers. Armed with several effects and loop-samplers, his guitar-based sonic experimentations challenge the boundaries of the conventional guitar-drone mould by combining both non-frigid song structure and ambiance together, blending layers of textures over textures, merging faint growing melodies into a beautiful sea of noise. For this conceptual soundtrack to Christy's photographs, Thisquietarmy recreates the transmissions received through the various hybrid configurations (BnA, CnB, DnC) of the Very Large Array dishes in New Mexico located at 3774379 258421 13S on the grid-based UTM (Universal Transverse Mercator) coordinate system of the Earth's surface. Different sounds from outer space are captured through the different configurations such as the first televised transmission returning from space, signals from lost spacecrafts and random outer space phenomenon.
Christy Romanick's "Very Large Array" book features a series of colored photographs shot in San Agustin, New Mexico. Christy captures the beauty and eeriness of the VLA satellites occupying an isolated desert landscape. Also included is an exclusive 30 minute soundtrack cd titled "Transmissions to 3774379 258421 13S" by Montreal musician Thisquietarmy.
To read more about the book and to hear 3 of the songs off the soundtrack please go here:
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