[rohrpost] Sasker Scheerder on Radio Copernicus Saturday nov. 12th 2005

[Inke Arns]

>Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 19:09:20 +0100
>From: Josephine Bosma <jesis at xs4all.nl>
>Subject: [spectre] fwd: Sasker Scheerder on Radio Copernicus Saturday nov.
>	12th 2005
>
>
>Sasker Scheerder wrote:
>
>I am happy to announce to you the first-time 
>ever public reading of the text [A Stimulus To 
>Make The Most Productive Use Of Radio] as 
>written by Kurt Schwitters in 1934. The reading 
>wil be done simultaneously on two broadcasting 
>stations that can be heard all over the city of 
>Berlin. What makes this event even more special 
>is that the strongest man in the world, and his 
>brother who is a well-known liliputian, will be 
>reading this text that deals with the strongest 
>man in the world, and his brother who is a 
>well-known liliputian, who broadcast their voice 
>over the radio. The strongest man in the world, 
>and his brother who is a well-known liliputian, 
>will interrupt the reading of the text at times 
>to (in this precise order):
>
>boil water
>
>make tea (sage tea)
>
>open a small package
>
>tear up some phonebooks (Berlin and surroundings)
>
>smoke a cigar in the window (Gran Corona Primera, La Paz)
>
>There are small sounds that sound big and big 
>sounds that sound small. Double broadcast = 
>double action = good value for money. Go to 
>Alexanderplatz with two transistor radios or 
>listen to half of the programme (apologies here, 
>but it could also be fun) on the audiostream at 
>www.radio-copernicus.org
>
>This work is produced with the kind cooperation 
>of Oliver Baurhenn, thank you's to Olaf Matthes.
>
>**************************
>
>Saturday, 12.11.2005, 18:00-19:00
>Sasker Scheerder, 'We make this known here with all due reservations'
>An animated double reading of the essay 'A 
>Stimulus To Make The Most Productive Use of 
>Radio', written in 1934 by Kurt Schwitters. In 
>collaboration with the Offener Kanal Berlin, the 
>commissioned work will emerge through the 
>acoustic interplay of 'simultaneous broadcast' 
>on two frequencies: on Radio_Copernicus: UKW 
>95,2 and on OKB Radio: UKW 97,2.
>
>Sasker Scheerder, media artist from Rotterdam, 
>mostly works with sound in time based 
>configurations. His best known projects in the 
>area of strategic usage of Micro-FM in 
>performance art are his so-called "Audio Drives".
>
>Sasker Scheerder, Rotterdamer Medienkünstler, 
>arbeitet vor allem mit Sound in zeitbasierten 
>Konfigurationen. Seine bekanntesten Projekte auf 
>dem Gebiet der strategischen Nutzung von 
>Micro-FM in Performances sind die so genannten 
>"Audio Drives". http://www.scheerdersasker.nl
>
>Radio_Copernicus is a radio station for German and Polish artists. Its
>airwaves are open to any form of art which uses the medium of radio as a
>basis for aesthetic and creative activity. The 
>station was conceived as an independent and 
>transnational experiment to focus on artistic 
>and cultural innovations in electronic media and 
>digital culture. The German-Polish artist radio 
>will be transmitting until the end of the year 
>on 95,2 MHz UKW and on the internet 
>http://www.radio-copernicus.org.
>
>
>
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