A Million Keys

Soft Errs (2008) by Kabir Carter

I’ve mentioned Kabir Carter’s work – which uses sound as a medium in which to convey the social and psychological contours of architecture and space- on the blog before. Soft Errs was originally produced for an installation in an empty storefront, and was performed again this past January at LMAKprojects. I shot the video below from the piece’s second iteration.

Soft Errs is a temporary sound installation that was initially realized in an empty storefront. The work partially fills the acoustic and psychic vacuum left by defunct postwar consumer electronics outlets, and attempts to explore the invisible shape and language of private and public audio technology. A store as signal chain is assembled with pocket radios, a low power radio transmitter, analog synthesizer modules, malfunctioning CD players, and the live recitation of electronic messages using radiophonic code.