Los Angeles Ashworth, Kansas

Overnight to Barstow

Eleven hours and fourteen minutes in the cab of a refrigerated truck, from the port at San Pedro to a distribution yard in the Mojave, recorded in a single take.

Performer
A long-haul truck driver
Strand
Fullfield Originals
Running time
11 h 14 min
Released
Motion
Gentle
Ages
13+
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What a Fullfield recording is

Every title on the slate is a first-person recording. Fullfield captures a performance from the performer’s own position (picture at eye level, sound at the ear, motion, touch and breath) and plays it back to you the way it happened to them.

You don’t watch it. You stand where they stood.

What Fullfield records
The binocular visual field, plotted as a perimetry chart TEMPORAL 100° BLIND SPOT SUPERIOR 58° BINOCULAR FIELD 214° × 133° OVERLAP 120°
The human field of view, about 214 degrees across. A Fullfield headpiece records 186 of them.
Cross-section of the Sense/Net Library at Ashworth, Kansas The reading room and a steel headframe stand at the surface. A single shaft descends through sand, shale and anhydrite to a bed of rock salt, where six storage galleries, A to F, are cut at 652 feet. The salt bed holds a steady 68 degrees Fahrenheit and about 45 percent relative humidity. READING ROOM HEADFRAME ABCDEF GALLERIES A–F · 652 FT · 68°F · 45% RH Topsoil and river sandShale and siltstoneAnhydrite and shaleRock salt, Hutchinson Salt MemberShale 0 ft100 ft200 ft300 ft400 ft500 ft600 ft700 ft800 ft

The Sense/Net Library

Six hundred and fifty-two feet under Kansas

Since 1994 the company’s masters have been kept in galleries cut into a bed of rock salt beneath Ashworth, Kansas, where the temperature has not moved from 68 degrees in living memory. The Library holds every recording Sense/Net has made, the catalogues it has bought, and a reading room above ground that any researcher can book.

Copies of retired products and out-of-commerce titles are deposited with Lazarus, the digital preservation programme, so that they can still be opened when the machines that played them are gone.

9 open roles in Los Angeles, Sun Valley and Ashworth, Kansas.

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