The Black Box

Your hard times just got harder. The Black Box is a hand held tombstone, an obsidian device
with nine looped tracks of deep dark and disturbing sound constructs created specifically
for this project by artists on the experimental music label FSS.

Music by Cristal, Haptic and Wrnlrd
Spoken word pieces by Annie Feldmeier Adams—Today, I will not kill myself and I don't feel anything

Plastic; 3.6 x 2.3 x .8 in., edition of 2000

Buy boxes from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago here or $15 from FSS here.

Buy the iPhone application for $2.99 here.

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My first reaction to the Black Box was a pretty loud laugh. The second it comes on a voice
begins to repeat, “Today, I will not kill myself” over and over. The voice is empty without
energy, like the speaker is trying to convince himself that today is not a good day for suicide.
–Lucas Schleicher/brainwashed

Guaranteed to keep unwanted relatives and solicitors kilometres away from your door…
–Textura