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CHTHONIC ARCHIVE no.6 Radio Art + Music Album

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OUT NOW | CHTHONIC ARCHIVE no.6: I Hear a New World

the Radio Art + Music Album is available on all music platforms

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CHTHONIC

adjective.

concerning, belonging to, or inhabiting the underworld.

noun.

a repository or collection especially of information.

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In “I Hear a New World”, a boy is secretly hired by his babysitter to translate the love letters she writes to, and receives from, her American boyfriend.

The action takes place in 1999 in Paris, France, during the house and techno revolution.

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CHTHONIC ARCHIVE is an ongoing performance art project and published series. Each piece threads gestural and radio acting into music and soundscapes framed by video installations. Published works document the premieres in texts and images.

CHTHONIC ARCHIVE’s performances fuse the aural intimacy of 1930s American radio dramas with stylized visual idioms inspired by traditional Japanese Noh theater. Story material is at once personal and archaic: the artist mines mythological terrain for glimpses of himself and his unfolding world.

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CHTHONIC ARCHIVE no.6: I Hear a New World was first performed at Baert Gallery in Los Angeles on June 28, 2025, on the occasion of Jordan Rountree’s solo exhibition “I Hear a New World”

The album also features a recording of the Artist Talk with Jordan Rountree and Brittany Menjivar hosted by Baert Gallery on July 26, 2026.

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CHTHONIC ARCHIVE no.6: I Hear a New World

Created and written by Jordan Rountree

Performed by Jordan Rountree and Crystal Sasaki

Radio art and music produced by Jordan Rountree

Radio art and music co-produced and mixed by Vladimir Kusijanović

Mastered by Krishna Jhaveri

Album artwork by Jordan Rountree

Trailer:

Performance video documentation captured by Johnny Ferro