Jessica Ekomane is an established sound artist who has enjoyed worldwide performances for several years at a variety of festivals, presenting colourful audio-scapes with diverse subject matter. This includes but is not limited to: sleep and relaxation, interpersonal relationships, prostitution, found sounds and pure audio experimentation.
In this piece, Ekomane takes snippets of anonymous conversation from this entirely public radio service often used by truckers, small communities and radio hobbyists, and re-contextualises them onto national radio.
CITIZEN BAND
I found CB Radio a particularly entrancing idea; I like the concept of field recording, but this is more akin to field observing. The audio is there for the taking, and all is needed is to tune in and hit record and that feels compelling and genuine and oddly personal in a removed, altered sort of way.