EPISODE · Aug 9, 2018 · 4 MIN
Belle Isle history audio collage
from STRANGE Cucumber show · host STRANGE Cucumber show
an audio collage that surveys the interesting and horrific history of Belle Isle in the middle of the James River, Richmond, VA Track includes rhythmic drum-sounding audio made by "playing" the vertical concrete dividers in the smaller hydroelectric building. Chief Powhatan's speech to John Smith, hints of the brothel and race track, Whitman's observations about the emaciated Union soldiers imprisoned there, and the sound of my own blacksmith work for the foundry whose remains are still visible.
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an audio collage that surveys the interesting and horrific history of Belle Isle in the middle of the James River, Richmond, VA Track includes rhythmic drum-sounding audio made by "playing" the vertical concrete dividers in the smaller hydroelectric building. Chief Powhatan's speech to John Smith, hints of the brothel and race track, Whitman's observations about the emaciated Union soldiers imprisoned there, and the sound of my own blacksmith work for the foundry whose remains are still visible.
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