Post by Holger Schulze

I just had the chance to listen to the entire radio production of the experimental essay I wrote last year: "KEIN RADIO." "NO RADIO." Felicitas Ott was the director who took care of this production; sound engineers were Christian Eickhoff & Sabine Klunzinger, and voice actor was Boris Koneczny. They did marvelous work. I am so pleased with how they brought my imaginary, experimental radio essay to life. Next (!) Sunday 28, 11:03pm CET, this radio essay will be broadcast for the first time on SWR - and soon thereafter it should be available online at the latest (but probably before then): https://lnkd.in/e53jySiE In this essay, I imagine a future of radio - after radio has ended. Part pensive meditation, part brazen rant, and part poetic imagination, it also bears many markers of an audio paper, unsurprisingly. The text is in German, but many of you sound aficionados will undoubtedly enjoy its sound, production, dynamic, and tangible materiality. For your service I translated the official press release from SWR into the English language: "Yikes, what's this? An essay riddled with pauses? In which not much happens? An essay that, according to the author, doesn't even exist? By an author who, according to the author, doesn't actually exist either? What's that all about? In this experimental essay, cultural and media scholar Holger Schulze dreams of a radio that he increasingly misses: daring; unformatted. A radio that tries something new, that is allowed to play enthusiastically with new sounds, long pauses, and unknown effects. Above all, one that does not 'captivate' him—but sets him free."