Feedback

Artists

Album Info

Release Date: 2019

Label: Radius

FEEDBACK, by Maria Gaspar, is originally released as a vinyl record housed within an artist book of the same name. FEEDBACK is an audio-visual publication that serves as a living archive of Gaspar’s work over the past seven years around issues of mass incarceration inside and surrounding Cook County Jail. The experimental sound works on the record were developed through a series of workshops led by Gaspar inside Cook County Jail with a group of incarcerated men, collectively called the Radioactive Ensemble for her project and site intervention: Radioactive: Stories from Beyond the Wall. The record is comprised of two works, Side A and Side B, and is an exploration of down-time that glimpses the fusion of boredom with the necessity of expression. The two sound works echo each other, and include outtakes, performances, and experiments recorded by the Radioactive Ensemble inside Cook County Jail, a space of limbo and the in-between.