TRANSMISSION ART ARCHIVE

Heaven Is Already Gone

2012
Lee Rosevere
In the early 1990s, Lee Rosevere recorded Nobody Goes To Heaven, an 8-minute sound work created by playing a short-wave radio straight to each track of a 4-track tape, and then live mixing the results. Rosevere revisited this process for 120 Hours for John Cage. In this new iteration he recorded and mixed the work digitally. This "updated" approach, ironically proved more difficult; not only are there less stations broadcasting on shortwave frequency in 2012 as compared to twenty years prior, but the digital recording process brought interference, adding more static to the reception.