Radia #1030 - duration unknown by Sarah Washington & Knut Aufermann - 6th March 2025

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

***duration unknown*** is contribution by **http://mobile-radio.net**.

This piece concerns the uncertainties and contradictions of modern-day car use, and unfolds in the mind rather more as an unfinished philosophical journey than a physical one.

It was conceived as an antidote to the celebratory sentiment (although perhaps ironically intended) engendered in listeners by the Kraftwerk song ‘Autobahn’ - in relationship to the building of an out-of-time motorway bridge over the Mosel valley near Ürzig in Germany. The originally planned action was to detonate the record while it played on a portable turntable on the unfinished bridge, which was deemed somewhat tricky to realise.

The work was made for the show Cafe Sonore on the Dutch national radio channel VPRO in 2010, commissioned by Lukas Simonis. During a residency at WORM in Rotterd