[spectre] Recommended reading for a Sunday afternoon: "Radio Music", by Jon Leidecker

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"Radio Music", an essay by Jon Leidecker

Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/quaderns-audio/qa_jon_leidecker/capsula
PDF: http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20101108/QA_03_Leidecker.pdf

"Radio Music" connects three examples from the history of the potential of
the radio receiver as musical instrument, from its early beginnings in the
twenties as captured on a comedy record, to formal art experiments in the
forties and fifties, to its nostalgic presence in one of the very first
song-based pop music collage albums, which heralded the now familiar
practice of sampling.

Since 1990, Jon Leidecker has performed appropriative collage music under
the pseudonym Wobbly, improvising live with prerecordings to coax the
harmonies out of the recorded sounds of individuals from disparate
cultures. Previous and ongoing projects include the bands Chopping Channel
(with Don Joyce & Peter Conheim of Negativland), Sagan (with Blevin
Blectum, Lesser and Ryan Junell), the Freddy McGuire Show (with video
artist Anne McGuire) and Amen Seat (with MaryClare Bryztwa), as well as
live and studio collaborations with People Like Us, Matmos, Negativland,
Thomas Dimuzio, Tim Perkis & Xopher Davidson, Hrvatski, The Tape-beatles,
The Evolution Control Committee and Otomo Yoshihide. In 2009 he was
commissioned by Ràdio Web MACBA to produce VARIATIONS, an ongoing radio
show on the history of musical collage & sampling.

More features by Jon Leidecker: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/jon_leidecker-tag

Enjoy!
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