Asphyxia: The "Idiote", the Library Wifi and the Suppressed Safe #16 - Fetish - 13th September 2023

Originally commissioned in 2022 as part of Radio Art Zone's tapestry of 22-hour radio productions, this project by Daniel R. Wilson is re-presented here in episodic form. Asphyxia hacks the antagonising systems which thwart and forestall projects (its name also acknowledges the asphyxiating atmosphere of long-form radio when made by a single person). It is a damaged would-be radio documentary exploring the Narnia of restricted access material and gatekept employment.

This episode broadly explores audio cassette tapes as a means of transmitting ideas. It contains a manifesto on 'pure volunteering', i.e. an act whereby involuntarily unemployed aspirants forcibly employ themselves by gatecrashing workplaces. A lost micro-cassette phone recording (yielded during a bin dive) of wildlife expert Chris Packham discussing wood mice with a tabloid reporter is digitised and archived in a guerrilla pure volunteering trespass at an unnamed recording facility.