What can a field recording reveal of the past? Are echoes from history preserved in material objects, bodies or voices? How can a memory be (re)presented in sound? And what does it mean to listen to the past? Ebay DDR is a sound work for radio by Berlin-based artist Thomas Lea Clarke that explores the topics of memory, technology, obsolescence and forgotten histories. Using originalradio-cassette players and reel to reel tape machines from the DDR era of East Germany that the artist procured through the popular German second-hand trading website “Ebay Kleinanzeigen”, Clarke blends excerpts of interviews that he conducted with the original owners of those various machines, with their own home-made radio recordings from the 1980s, and field recordings made by the artist in va...
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