Don Joyce

Mort Aux Vaches
Staalplat



A commissioned piece for Dutch radio station VPRO assembled by Negativland's Don Joyce in the long running Mort Aux Vaches series. Here Joyce builds a sonic timescape utilizing WWII era recordings, juxtaposing music and radio commercials with first person accounts of the liberation of European concentration camps. Uneasy listening to be sure, but with an artistic intent:

"We'll Be Right Back' was inspired by watching months and months of TV reports on the troubles in Bosnia, including mass executions, mass rapes, concentration camps and the same old fascist deceits and ethnic genocide familiar in World War 2. These reports were constantly interrupted by commercials and so was World War 2.
Recorded in 1994, and uses only source material for this recording originated during World War 2. Only effects have been added.

Re-upped 9/30/06