Media: Newspaper + 29 Minute Audio Work

Lead Artists: Jon Fischer and Danny Clay

Size: 12 pages, 27 x 20 inch spreads (huge!)

Act of Giving? Free to all: November 2020

Year: 2020 (Pandemic Year)

Edition: First Printing of 300

Commissioned By: Look + Listen Festival (Brooklyn, USA)

Notes: “Sort of Exploratorium meets New York Times meets MAD magazine.”

After the 2020 festival was cancelled due to Covid19, Look and Listen commissioned us to release “Turntable Drawing no. 36: The Place” as this 12 page oversized newspaper. Mailed directly to the audience, this tactile project continues Look + Listen’s mission to provide unique interactions between music and visual spaces free of charge.

Newspaper includes:

• Download/streaming/podcast link to the audio work.
• Audio sampes of records, voices, field, recordings (with QR codes)
• Illustrated score
• Comics & Cartoons
• Weather
• Interviews
• Two Fold-Ins
• Full spread front/back cover poster
• Handy calibration guide

About

Just weeks before the coronavirus emerged, Jon made a voyage to the Middle East with some questions about a Hebrew word, “haMakom,” that he’d heard has no direct translation into English. He traveled with recording equipment and a mission to collect material for a collaboration with Danny. We used the resulting interviews, field recordings and sounds to create a meditation on the shifting concept of place.