Experimental Radio Practice - The Strand of Forever by Antonino Modica 02.04.2021

"This sense that things staying the same for too long is dangerous and makes us
risk falling behind, is
characteristic of modernity." (Adrian Daub, 2020)


The Strand of Forever is a surrealist radio transmission, conceived as an
interference to the standard
programming and a mock commentary on the monotony of mainstream radio content:
music, news
programs and jingles alternate almost in an obsessive way, only interrupted by
waves of radio static
and distortion. The listener is submerged with a hectic and at times
overwhelming succession of
sampled and processed radio material collected from stations from all over the
globe at various
times of the day and night.
Informed by Mark Fisher’s writings on hauntology and nostalgia, and influenced
by compositions by
musicians such as The Caretaker and Philip Jeck, this piece sets out to explore
the boundaries of
perception of the radio audience,...

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