Flexidisk Jockey, 2021
Mixed media collages, each comprising of multiple flexidisc musical postcards, MP3 player, stereo sound, different length soundtracks
Flexidisk Jockey is a series of collages, made with musical postcard, also called flexidiscs. These are actual postcards inscribed with a musical track on their image frontside, which can be played on any traditional vinyl record player.
During the cold war years such postcards were popular in Eastern Europe, especially in Poland, as a means of covert communication and to get prohibited music – including Western pop, rock and folk songs – past the censors. A postcard would be purchased, written and sent to someone as a greeting and they would receive the music inscribed on the postcard.
In these collages, the flexidiscs are arranged in such a way that their mountain imagery forms a continuous horizon line. An aural collage of the music inscribed on the cards has been edited in the precise order of the postcards and recorded onto MP3 players built into the work’s frame. The soundtrack can be listened to using headphones, plugged directly into the frame of the collages.