Radia #1020 - May It Come by Gregory Whitehead - 5th December 2024

Members of **http://radia.fm**, the international group of independent cultural radio stations, explore new and forgotten ways of making radio.

This episode is a contribution by **https://wavefarm.org**.

With a title that descends from a well-known passage in the *Tibetan Book of the Dead*, may it come that the sounds of the bardo shall be known as one’s own sounds, the piece opens with an improvised DIY ventilator that fails to sustain my bravewaves, waves that eventually flatline into a heavily decomposed electromagnetic soup.

Then comes a freely associative consideration of the Beefheart Affliction; the dangerous game of creating schizophonic monsters; the compost heap of radio’s intrinsic entropy and instability; the creative possibilities released through the fractures of a broken subjectivity; a synthetic voice ripened, to the point of bursting; a piece of flesh that we shall call Figgy Pudding; a bit of brain beneath a fingernail; a scratched radio thanatophony; and a pa