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Watching the Watchers

from The 1984 Remix Project by NCN

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The opening to this track is a clip from Negativland's radio show 'Over the Edge' ... the 'spreading chestnut tree' refers to Winston's poem: "Under the spreading chestnut tree / I sold you and you sold me". It also refers to the Chestnut Tree Cafe which he finds himself at by the end of the book. We hear a clip from the 1995 movie 'Casino' in which a monologue by the Robert DeNiro character talks about how everyone in the casino watches everybody else. We hear a clip about privacy from The Discovery Channel's 'Great Books: George Orwell's 1984'. A jew, who's parents were killed in the holocaust talks. An expert talks about the rapidly increasing complexity of computers and technology. The last few lines of the 1984 novel are read. The babble of the telescreen rises to a climax but is cut off by a line earlier in the novel about hope being contained in the proletariat (proles) as dramatized by John Hurt.

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from The 1984 Remix Project, released June 22, 2013
Negativland; Over the Edge; Robert DeNiro; Casino (1995); The Discovery Channel; 1984 (1984); John Hurt

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The National Cynical Network San Jose, California

The National Cynical Network (NCN) is a long-running, SF Bay Area alternate programming media remix project. It originally consisted of a trio of SF Bay-Area based radio collage artists: Phineas Narco, Ronald Redball and Alexander T. Newport. NCN seeks to play *with* music , using sound, and video media samples in the process of media collage or 'mediage'. ... more

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