Chris Burke and Frank O'toole

AURAL CORRESPONDENCE UPDATE
by Chris Burke and Frank O'Toole

The friendship and collaboration between sound artists Chris Burke
and Frank O'Toole began in the 80s when Chris was listening to
Frank's wildly eclectic WFMU radio show. Chris began sending Frank
home-recorded tapes of his oddball sound collage work, much of
which ended up on his first release, Idioglossia on Mode Records.
This began what they called the "aural correspondence" during which
Frank incorporated some of Chris's audio pieces into his radio show
along with his own. Chris recorded and the shows and used parts of
them in his sound collages which he sent back to Frank. Here they
continue the process 25 years later. This mix also includes
original music by each of them as well as the original sound piece
"Breath Stop" by Tamara Yadao* around the 37 minute mark.

For the full list of sources in the mix, search for glomag on
soundcloud.com.

You can find out about Chris's work at moderecords.com
and Frank's work at wfmu.org