This audio excerpt of Vague Apocalypse represents in one combined broadcast stream what is broadcast on two separate transmitters and received on different frequencies. Gallery installation, as seen in the accompanying image, features two radios placed approximately five feet apart at counter level - music playing on the left radio; voice on the right. Transmitters are not typically visible in the gallery.

Vague Apocalypse addresses the background noises of optimism and terror that define the landscape of contemporary living. Media narration of distant and indistinct disasters (weather, political, natural) mumbles along the edge of daily life as we shop, work, care for our families, and seek joy and pleasure. It colors our perceptions but doesn't control them.

Vague Apocalypse consists of two radio transmitters, each broadcasting on its own FM frequency up to an eighth of a mile, and two sets of radios within the gallery. Transmitter #1 broadcasts a recording of “Nothing But Blue Skies”, played by Bob Hallahan, noted jazz pianist, on a child's accordion, an instrument with which he has little familiarity. Transmitter #2 broadcasts excerpted news reports read by media spokesperson Bill Farrar.

People were invited to come to the gallery with their own radios to pick up the broadcasts or to park & listen from the street during or after gallery hours. Both transmitters broadcast 24 hours a day/7 days a week during the exhibition.

This piece has been installed at 1708 Gallery, Richmond VA; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach VA; Piedmont Community College, Charlotteville VA; and Paint & Body, Pittsburgh PA.