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Two Way Radios [2WR]
“Each receiver a potential transmitter”. It was not only Hans-Magnus Enzensberger who imagined radio as a two way medium: Brecht’s dictum of “radio as an apparatus for communication” is more than famous. Freeing radio from its centralized and mono-directional broadcast structure has been a strong claim since radio’s early days. And it has been especially the Internet, which made two way radio-structures become a serious possibility.
Based on the thoughts and utopies of Brecht, Enzensberger, but also on “La Radia” by F.T. Marinetti and Pino Masnata, the Belgian sound and media artist Guy van Belle created his series of performances Two Way Radios [2WR]. Premiered in Prague on April 14, 2005 this set-up of sound and communication architecture was performed in a new version on “Radio_Copernicus”, a German-Polish artist radio on July 28, 2005. Several bi-directional audiostreams, generated by four performers (Guy van Belle and Barbara Huber in Stralsund, Akihiro Kubota in Tokyo, Code 31/Okno Brussels) were mutually altered within this group. [more]
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