Haus der Kultur der Welt: “Radiophonic Explorations, Der Ohrenmensch: Platform for Listening Knowledge and The Interference of the Future”

Conference talk with Mara Mills, Marina Rosenfeld, Wolfgang Hagen and Alexandra Hui

An essential characteristic of the radiophonic event is the interference. The rustle between frequencies, the sudden silences, the superimposition of voices, the squeaking of the recording tape. Along these moments, specific techniques and aesthetics were developed. Unintentional noise becomes a carrier of meaning, an independent sound. The direction in which these interferences point—and from which they come—is subject to social negotiation processes. Therefore, interferences always carry a utopian moment: with them, everything can change at any given moment. Digitalization has suppressed the interference, if not abolished it. Does this mean that an aesthetic and social space of possibility is vanishing, or is it possible to preserve the potential of the interference?

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