24 hour radio from Berlin
Wassily Bosch, on a short visit from Moscow, will be this evening’s guest at the Radio On studio. Wassily Bosch works on nazlo records, releasing small editions of sound carriers, all with hand-made packaging. video of nazlo works. Wassily Bosch is also part of the electro-haram collective that offers sound works based on found recordings. Live connection (click for listening!) starts at 19.00 Berlin Time
The audio reports ‘letter from Berlin’ are directly recorded on tape with a handheld walkman. In this episode: a bicycle ride from Berlin Tempelhof to Festsaal Kreuzberg, impressions and excerpts from John Cooper Clarke’s live performance.
A couple of tapes in a shoebox found on the street, it might as well have the point of departure for The Ballad of Ray and Julie. But it was not. Graffitti was, and a brick wall, and an empty space somewhere in town. The story is: something once was, and maybe still is, or could have been, and people were involved. The result is a reconstruction in various forms. There wouldnot have been a result without the involvement of knowledge. “Life is solving problems” said Karl Popper. I forgot…
Do Dai Coelacanth’s contributions to Radio On evolve into a sci-fi radioplay, a discardable walkman’s alternative to all paytv’s series? Be your own detective. Read his words. Maybe they sound familiar. Susan had joined a show band. I was asked to play trumpet. Not in the band. They wanted me to stand in a shop doorway. They liked my tone. They said it was undecipherable. We had been on the planet for twenty years and had failed to establish ourselves. We were there. We were alive. We were regressing. Susan’s…
Made in Prague, while the town was boiling. Cooked, steamed, working from a big tupperware bed, here’s Rádio Nuda’s new show: !special european softness heatwave! aka radio trash = mass music turned to noise and vice-versa and whatever “thanks” to André Pissoir, Vomir/Rollet, Consumer Electronics, Blue Sabbath Black Fiji , Chie Mukai /Justin Simon, a good cat, Shit&shine, Julian Assange, Iveta Plná, Robin Hannibal, Canicule, Discom, O Reche Modo, Alban Ceray,The Yellow Jackets, Scenes from Salad, KWI, Les Boucles Etranges, aesthetician street screamer, Artaud, Roger Blin, Royal Hungarian Noisemakers &…
The audio reports ‘letter from Berlin’ are directly recorded on tape with a handheld walkman. In this episode: a trainride from Berlin to Amsterdam, sounds from Amsterdam and from Heerlen, domestic and non-domestic sounds from Berlin and a few words by John Cooper Clarke.
Guitars and rhythm, an old boy’s network, a visit to another planet, Elvis and Vampira. Berlin is boiling. Berlin is bleeding. Time for some cottage cheese and a visit to a lake. Transistor radio is blaring. Currywurst fumes and topless girls. Beer bellies and wet dogs running around. Those were the days: 1. Histatic Charge – Why Do I Always Hafta Do The Dishes? 2. Endzeitgeneration – First Earth, Then Space 3. Don Campau & Robin O’Brien – Magical Mile new very personal DC interview 4. Viktimized Karcass – Loaded…
One of the surprises to wait for is the sound that leaks through. Dai records over commercial cassettes. The other surprise to wait for is the way he treats or maltreats his walkman. Noises recorded at random places and spoken fragments from a sci-fi book for children are the other ingredients. But, as always, you, the listener, are the cook. In Dai’s words I think your seeds are dead. Crocodiles in the lake all they want is a cup of coffee and some love. Keep away from the edge. It’s…
Go to the main square of your city, pueblo or village. It is full of beautiful plastic flowers. Are you Made in China? When we meet in Rome be sure it will be on a black and white day, back in 1961. A rough day at the soldier’s disco, smells of gasoline, reading the same letter again, black tears. Nobody thinks of home in the atomic age. * A parade of dinosaurs, somewhere in the desert. Thirsty animals, hundreds of them, all feathered: “We need an anthology of kung fu…
