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End of the Line is an experimental radio play that juxtaposes found audio sourced from gay phone sex hotlines with electronically manipulated recordings of hold music from pharmacies across the USA. 

The hotline is an arguably outmoded telecommunication technology that has sculpted and mediated generations of queer desire. After obtaining a free trial to chat with “local guys” via hotline one lonely December evening, I was granted access to the explicit spoken word bios of men seeking erotic company throughout the United States, some of which seemed to be months-if not years-old. This aural landscape felt both divinatory and predicated on the ideologies of cruising; the faceless ghosts of public sex circulating in a feedback loop. This aura of unfulfilled expectation felt similar to the liminal psychogeographies that occur upon experiencing “hold music”; music created to fill a bureaucratic void and intended to ease the anxieties of waiting. 

Recorded directly from my phone, I began to document these voices while compiling snippets of hold music from CVS and Walgreens’ pharmacies throughout the nation. There were two predominant hold music compositions featured, but depending on the quality of the connection, the recordings were subject to aleatoric distortion and degeneration. These disparate audio sources delineate simultaneously purgatorial and quasi-cartographical spaces, and when in dialogue with each other, create a unique hauntological topography that addresses archival loss, queer longing, the failures of the medical industrial complex, and the occult properties of “being put on hold.”

Biography



Kamikaze Jones is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores extended vocal technique, queer hauntologies, and ritualized erotic transcendence. Utilizing counterarchival impulse and experimental research procedures, Jones endeavors to provide both sonic and ceremonial sanctuary for the ghosts of public sex. His work across mediums has been featured by Anthology Film Archives, Black Mountain College Museum, Montez Press Radio, Wave Farm, The Poetry Project, and Onassis USA. He was a founding member of the poetry and performance collective The Anchoress Syndicate, and the host of the podcast “Pure Garbage: An Oral Examination of John Waters.” He is the current arts editor of WUSSY Magazine.

https://www.kamikazejones.com

Kamikaze Jones - End of the Line

Tape letters between two friends, one living in a blanket fort, the other in a house of paper, and both deeming each other’s homes unsound, can’t seem to agree on who should visit the other. So instead, one of them builds a house they can meet in, out of the safest material: Noise.

Biography

Yara is a musician and puppeteer based in Beirut, Lebanon. She incorporates accordion, metallophone and electronics in her live performances. In addition to her musical work, she has participated in exhibitions where she featured sound and video installations including ‘Sonatina for 19 Music Boxes’ (interactive sound installation), ’The Cut-Throat Finch Preludes’ (tape loop installation), ‘I Liked it Better When We Lived on See-Saw Hill’ (video installation) and ‘Lapses’ (interactive sound installation). Last year she released  ‘Mr. Samuel’s Teatime Stories for Good Kids and Confused Adults’ – A puppet film in four parts.

https://yaraasmar.com/

https://yaraasmar.bandcamp.com/album/stuttering-music

@microwave.blues

Yara Asmar - I am building a house

Those jingles are part of a radio play workshop project for children. The original idea and story sketches were created by me and transformed into a script by wonderful German voice actress and my workshop partner Nana Spier. 

The stories are centered around a woodworld around a majestic and old mango tree and all kinds of critters living in and around this tree. During the workshop the kids explore and enact their roles while being recorded. The final result is a vivid and lively radio play.

Both of the presented jingles serve to musically support the experience for the listeners and lead them in and through the wonderous world of the mango tree.

Geschichten vom Mangobaum - Intro

Those jingles are part a radio play workshop with children centered around the creation of a radio play focussed on kids tales in the woodworld around an old magical mango tree.

Geschichten vom Mangobaum - Outro

Welcome to my Lair. Here I am telling you the tales from my Creator Table. Call me a music lover, gear geek, lifelong student of sound waves, storyteller or simply an audio engineer based in Berlin.

Enjoy the journey of my creative Sound Design outbursts, the outcomes of digging deeper into digital and analog gear and the little steps of a never ending quest of finishing all music and sound projects I ever started with.

Feel free to PM me. I am happy to get in touch with you!

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Radiophrenia is a temporary art radio station – an exploration into current trends in sound and transmission arts. Broadcasting live from Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts, the station aims to promote radio as an art form, encouraging challenging and radical new approaches to the medium. The broadcast schedule will include live shows, pre-recorded features and a series of ‘live-to-air’performances. The majority of the programme will be made up from selections submitted to an international open call for sound and radio works.

Broadcasting across Glasgow on 87.9fm, and online at www.radiophrenia.scot 

Supported by Creative Scotland.

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