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Artists’ statement
We are a married couple who met in college in 1984. Since then we have worked individually as well as collaboratively using photography, film, video, and digital media. We have taught in the art departments of The Cooper Union, Rutgers University and the University of Florida.
The primary focus of our work is, what we call, the transportation of place — situations in which one limited or isolated place strongly resembles another distant one. Everywhere, not only in the new world, such situations are accumulating and accepted as genuine locales. Traditional notions of place, in which culture and geographic location neatly coincide, are being challenged by legacies of slavery, colonialism, holocaust, immigration, tourism, and mass-communication. Whether the subject is Germany in Africa, Germans dressing as Native Americans, American towns dressed as Germany, or New York in Las Vegas, our interest tends to be a place out of place with its various causes and consequences.
The goal of the project is to visit each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world, and to take pictures at each location. The pictures, along with a narrative, are then posted on this web site. This creates an organized sampling of the world.
Another goal is to document the changes at these locations over time. Although we initially want to visit as many different locations as possible, don't hesitate to revisit a confluence if you're in the area.

https://confluence.org/index.php
Chris Wainwright lives in London and is an artist and curator and who’s interests are based in environmental photography, performance and installation

http://chriswainwright.com/
⛳️2024 Release of the pre-Г5—54 era-recorded album⛳️

https://www.g5-54.com/releases/issyk-kul-highway/

https://archive.org/details/issyk-kul-highway-gvgmfos

https://g5-54.bandcamp.com/album/issyk-kul-highway

GVGMFOS (literally: Great Voice Great Music Full of Sex) = pre-Г5—54 project that used analog synths with acoustic and mechanical musical instruments

Truck Driver Song Lyrics:

There's a Truck Driver
down in old Tashkent
And he loves to listen
to that radio

Everywhere he goes
you can hear
that old radio
And they call him
the Radio Truck Driver

Refrain:
Truck Driver

Radio Truck Driver

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At that time, the multichannel recording was quite a problematic with independent hardware DACs without clock sync (and any thoughts of their manufacturers that they can be used simultaneously), therefore desyncronisation of tracks was used as a method to bring more dissonance to the otherwise standard pop rhythms. Probably this fact motivated us to dive into noise and harshly distorted sounds later
https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/anniversaries/may/cello-and-nightingale-duet/

19 May 1924 was the first day radio listeners heard a cello playing while nightingales sang, live from a Surrey garden. The cellist was Beatrice Harrison, who had recently performed the British debut of Delius's Cello Concerto, which had been written for her. The nightingales were the birds in the woods around Harrison's home in Oxted, who were attracted by the sound of her cello.

Harrison first became aware of the birds one summer evening as she practiсed her instrument in the garden. As she played she heard a nightingale answer and then echo the notes of the cello. When this duet was repeated night after night Harrison persuaded the BBC that it should be broadcast. Engineers carried out a successful test and the following night the live broadcast took place. Harrison played and the nightingales, eventually, joined in.

The public reaction was such that the experiment was repeated the next month and then every spring for the following 12 years. Harrison and the nightingales became internationally renowned and she received 50,000 fan letters.