Dr. Klangendum

Two sound compositions will be performed in the WORM cinema, both commissioned by the WORM Studio. The makers will also be present. The Worm studio asks at least 10 sound artists every season to make a radio piece, preferably in the WORM studio. They are broadcast on the Concertzender with the programme Dr. Klangendum (previously on Tuesday, midnight, now on Sunday, also midnight). We thought it would be a good idea to organise joint listening sessions every now and then … assuming that it is a special experience to experience this sound art in the dark, together with a number of listeners. No distraction, total focus, but not alone…

The programme lasts less than an hour in total.There is a break between the performances and an opportunity to talk to the artists.

1. The Horse – Alexander Lezzi 2019.

The Horse is a psychological thriller centered around one narrator’s struggles with socialization, and his relationship with a therapist.

Music and production: Alexander Lezzi
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Voices: Hannah Endrulat, Alexander Lezzi, Steven Tyler, Gene Autry.

Produced by Lukas Simonis: for Radio WORM / Klangendum / Concertzender / Radia.fm

Alexander Lezzi is an artist and musician currently based in Rotterdam. He is a graduate of The New School in New York and the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam. His work continuously draws on ideas and perspectives of what cohabitation entails as an experience and an experiment. The work manifests itself through a variety of mediums – sound, sculpture, film, performance – in order to reorganise, reshuffle and shift perspective on collected experiences. These transformations takes place via touch, language, mashing, and mixing, as well as through reactions between different (chemical, social, hormonal, psychological, reproductive) elements. Recent performances and exhibitions include: “Femke Hears A Who” with Clementine Edwards at Peach, Rotterdam (2019)“Aminals” with Viktor Timofeev at 427 Gallery, Riga (2019), “Signs of Invasion” (performance) with Billy Bultheel at Ku’damm Kuree, Berlin (2018), “Kunsthalle For Music” (performance) at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (2018); “My New Feelings Whip” (performance) at Galleri Syster, Luleå (2017).

2. The Machine by Georg Perec and Radboud Mens.

George Perec is a French writer who lived from 1936 to 1982. He was a member of the Oulipo group; a group of French and international writers who – in a playful way – tried to limit themselves as much as possible in their writing techniques. He became internationally known through his book La Dispartion; a literary thriller about the disappearance of the letter ‘e’. In the story of more than 300 pages, that letter is never mentioned.

In 1968 he made the radio play The Machine. The radio play is about a computer that analyzes Goethe’s poem Wanderers Nachtlied. The poem only covers 8 lines, no more than 24 words in total and it is about the peace that you can find in nature. In the radio play the poem is not studied artistically in content but systematically (re)analysed by a computer; how many letters, how many vowels, from back to front, from top to bottom, and so forth. It soon becomes clear that this game about language not only describes the operation of a machine, but also, albeit more hidden, the inner mechanism that the poetry reveals.

“I have partly used this radio play as a guideline to ensure that the commands, as given by “the computer” in the radio play, are actually executed by a computer as much as possible. Computers can not only pronounce text but also convert it into all kinds of other signals such as midi, morse, dtmf, etc.etc. My new version runs parallel to the original.” (Radboud Mens)