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Marcin Barski od lat kolekcjonuje stare kasety magnetofonowe, głównie z porzuconymi nagraniami prywatnymi z lat 80. i 90. Płyta "Wanda's Dream" zawiera cztery kolaże dźwiękowe, powstałe wyłącznie z fragmentów takich nagrań. Połączone ze sobą amatorskie rejestracje rodzinnych uroczystości, intymnych momentów, transmisji radiowych czy rozmów telefonicznych układają się w fascynującą, miejscami zabawną, a miejscami emocjonalną, opowieść o minionym czasie. Część utworów powstała na potrzeby instalacji prezentowanej po raz pierwszy na festiwalu Sanatorium Dźwięku w Sokołowsku. Okładkę płyty stworzył krakowski artysta Bogusław Bachorczyk.



The 1980s were special. It was then when microphones became a natural common part of the equipment of many households. Audio recordings were no longer unusual: everyone could make them. Handheld walkmans with a dictaphone option, analogue answering machines, tape players always equipped with a red button and a tiny hole to which one should speak in order to have their voice archived – all of these were to be found pretty much everywhere and pretty much everyone knew how to use them. There was no philosophy behind it: tapes cost pennies. And many of them have survived to this day. (...)

Disappointment is a recurrent theme in these tapes. The jammed Radio Free Europe broadcasts, the vulgar sexist cabarets which stopped being funny many, many years ago (if they were ever funny at all) and above all the conversations describing new taxes, the difficulties of everyday life, or even complaints about the phoning system and the need to wait hours by the phone before being able to speak to relatives abroad.

It is not uncommon to find tapes with Father Popieluszko’s sermons about truth, disguised (perhaps to fool the militia?) as Modern Talking cassettes, with the tracklist handwritten on the red and white inlay card. In the illegal underground circuit of the 1980s, the visu.......
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