Introduction Democratic National Convention (1972/73)

Album title: Campaign
Title: Hörtext IX, radio-text IX 1972/73 Introduction Democratic National Convention (Side 01)
Publisher: Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf
Date: 1972-73, publ. 1974
Medium: record 30 cm

The album Campaign by Ferdinand Kriwet processes audio recordings of the US presidential election
of 1973. Kriwet cuts together excerpts of candidate speeches and reporter statements and creates a
multi-layered and extremely compressed flood of information in the intersection of laudatory,
optimistic statements with critical, analytical and out-of-context catchwords, some of which are
arranged rhythmically. He thus analyses the creation of information, opinions and truths, the tactics
of influence and persuasion as well as the concealment of facts.

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