WTM #1138: VonnegutBallardCamus
Radio Patapoe 88.3 ~ Amsterdam
14.10.11
I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.”
• Kurt Vonnegut
These 3 writers all had a profound effect on my life during very different times. Each is a radical in his own way and all 3 had birthdays around mid-November & are now dead. But their writing never seems anything but fitting to contemporary situations like seers they saw the encroaching misery. I decided to do a show on their texts/visions and music that was inspired by them or might have been. That words could have an effect using levity, using simple/elegant sentences, not sacrificing aesthetix for politix & vice versa 0is what they taught me. They had unique, joyously deconstructive voices, tearing apart our accepted hypocrisies & sophistries, helping spotlight the basic dysfunctional state of the norm.
