In the early 1980’s the infamous and critically acclaimed comic duo Van Kooten en De Bie introduced the TegenPartij (the ContraParty). It was meant to criticise the upcoming conservative rightwing political parties in The Netherlands, but instead gained followers of their own who really believed the TegenPartij was to take part in the upcoming elections. Now, 30 years later, their vision has almost become real. Isn’t it ironic…?
During election night Edge decided to broadcast their full 55 minutes “Op hun pik getrapt” album, a historic document.
Leon Theremin, inventor of the mystical instrument the Theremin that could be played by just waving one’s hand in the air. A sensation when invented around 1930, where Theremin travelled the world and became a spy, relaying technological information from the US to the SU. Theremists: Lydia Kavina, Clara Rockmore, Lucie Rosen, Dr Samuel J. Hoffmann, The Lothars, Rob Schwimmer, the Beach Boys and all time Theremin enthousiast Robert Moog.
Dutch elections: what do parties have in their digital agenda? Yello Biafra, Negativ land, Cage, John Foxx, Heathcote Williams, Touch33, Fischerspooner..
This week our focus has been on physical processes and no-input strategies to generate music. Brainwaves, noise, sinewaves, neural synthesis. Toshimaru Nakamura, Jason Kahn, David Tudor, David Rosenboom, Sachiko M., Otomo Yoshihide and others.
Insect musicians. Voices of frogs and dogs. Tuva throat singers mimicking animals. Also played The Cacle Sisters, Remote Jeroen posted a blogpost about this here: http://ow.ly/17f9ni. (in Dutch)
This week’s focus on deafness and silence with a sound repo by Bouke at the clubhouse for deaf people. The experience of being deaf. Drone, hearing aid, Miles Davis’ trumpet, John Cage’s landscape and the apocalypse of Tod Dockstader.
Edge is in a cryogenic state and awaits to come back alive.
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Auditive esoteric radio show transgressing the boundaries of music and listening. Critically assessing the impact of the digital revolution on music, life and the arts.
By: Remote Jeroen, Dormant Boukor and Local Arthur
Irregular column: SUB by Bouke Mekel and RVV a nano-station for the Radio Voor de Vrijheid.
Language: Dutch.
