This virtual reality based video piece reframed for a cinematic projection unfolds as a monologue for insomniacs at the close of a fictitious community-radio graveyard shift just before dawn. Framed as an atmospheric listening exercise with a trace of absurdist humour, the work drifts through a disorienting soundscape where memory, technology and the subconscious meet at the edges of a wearied listener’s perception.

The monologue slyly proposes to the solitary listener that the soundscape surrounding them is not entirely live but augmented by an unseen background tape playing somewhere in the distance. This “tape recorder at the end of the world” runs for twenty-four hours across two unprecedented twelve-hour-long sides: Side A devoted to daylight sounds, Side B to nocturnal ones.

First presented publicly as a sound piece voiced by myself in 2023 for an overnight radio-art project broadcast in Montréal, Canada. This iteration features Rebecca Lee Bower giving visual form to the graveyard shift’s dislocated sense of time as both the radio host and her technical assistant.