PENULTIMATE BREATH

This sound piece is the accumulation of all piratically downloadable news broadcast programmes from Swiss national radio channels censored extremely to the point where only the inspirations of the anchors are kept. The matter of concern has been taken out with the ubiquitous editing process of ellipsis.
As a result male and female alike are breathing in at unison leaving a gap between each breath; a silence containing possible good news and disasters. The gap shortens as the radio shows are layered on top of each other.and cumulate into a cacophony of one way respiration.  
The anxiety has been a recurrent idea coming out of the ongoing contingency, the intension is to make this anxiety at first quite humorous become somehow physical and contagious though the listening of the layered insistant breaths. 


Stéphane Blumi