Christina McPhee (USA)
Rhodes Racer (Bonneville GPS) 24:26 | 2007
A meditation on subliminal datafields below the salt. Recursions race
through ‘flying’ mathematical figurations, against a montage of fleeting
shots - serendipitous vehicles on the flats, a startled pronghorn, pyrotechnics
experiments, and gushing groundwater. Shot on location in
collaboration with the Center for Land Use Interpretation, Bonneville
Salt Flats, Utah, GPS Expo, July 2006.
Sound composition by Steve Nalepa; “The predominant sound comes from a Rhodes piano,
offset against backward beats and bioacoustic atmospheres run through delay effects. The
‘Racer’ in the title references the point about halfway through the song where I double the tempo
of the Rhodes and drum parts. It is subtle, but it reminded me of cars going around a racetrack,
and I also liked the way ‘Rhodes Racer’ rolls off the tongue.”
