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Radio Art #6.
Tonight you can listen to part six of the 12-part series ‘Audio Art’. The series shows work by artists who, often from a visual or non-musical perspective, avail themselves of the audible. The series will discuss sound performances, sound installations, selfbuilt instruments, voice art and radiophonics.
Tonight we pay attention to voice art: the human voice, discourse, the manipulation thereof and its transformation.

You can listen to two works by Gregory Whitehead. We open this broadcast with ‘The Problem With Bodies’ and later you will hear ‘Bugs, Bardo, Radio; Mister Whitehead, are you there?’. Whitehead is a very important voice artist who very skillfully embarks upon the field of abstraction using very recognizable motifs and materials. Furthermore, two works by the legendary French voice artist Henri Chopin (once upon a time sound man with Kurt Schwitters). You will hear his ‘Frises Majeurs des Levres’ and ‘La Civilisation du Papier’, two compositions both supported by an individual thematic principle. Next to a strong French tradition Chopin also belongs to, there is an Italian movement of voice artists that have established themselves as relevant in the course of the last century. Two representatives are Arthur Petronia and Giacoma Bella from whom you will hear ‘Cosmosmose’ and ‘Discussione sul futurismo dei due critici sudanesi’, respectively. After many years of acoustic voice art, Dutchman Jaap Blonk was inspired by the use of electronics. This turn in his body of works resulted in radical work, relatively recently he privately released the CD ‘Averschuw’. You will hear three pieces from this CD: ‘Spruicht’, ‘Onge’ and ‘Glomrijk’. Finally, a work byJackson MacLow: ’38th & 39th Merzgedichte in Memoriam Kurt Schwitters’, a tribute to the spiritual father.