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Babylon (or: radioland)
Drehen wir am Radiophon
Vernehmen wir den Sendeton
Durch Tastendruck mit Blitzesschnelle...(click clack)
Erreichen wir die Kurze Welle
Nach Feineinstellung mit der Hand
Lauschen wir dem Morseband
Elektronenklange aus dem Radioland
Turn the dials with your hand
Till you find the short wave band
Electronic music sounds from Radioland
We are turning dials of the radio
We are hearing the sound of transmission
By pressing a button fast
We reach the short wave band
After fine tuning by hand
We are listening to the Morse band
Electronic sounds from Radioland
Turn the dials with your hand
Till you find the short wave band
Electronic music sounds from Radioland
Kraftwerk - Radioland
A perfect world is a world where communication is no longer a problem. A perfect world is a world where the borders are no longer relevant. Perfection is unreachable. Man is fallible and imperfect. There have been so many attempts undertaken to design our world to our own desires. Attempts to make a perfect world - but only under our conditions.
Globalisation.
Information-society.
But only under our conditions.
In mythology something similar was ventured: a group wanted to unite the world and built a tower. But the tower fell under it's own weight and pretence. The 'confusion of tongues' was a fact. A perfect place to highlight this sort of misunderstanding is on the short-wave radio. (the radio frequencies between 3000 en 30000 Hz). The short wave sections off the world and unites it in one large 'confusion of tongues'
The Global Village, spread apart by alleys and back-streets.
The Information-society in which the information is torn into fragments. Communication on a world scale - but no one understands each other.
I want to do a couple of things:
An audio-performance whereby I'll demonstrate the 'confusion of tongues'. Different radio stations will be audible but incomprehendable.
Analyse the information: Because the information
will be fragmented, I will be forced to unravel the info to an almost
molecular scale.
The different languages: human languages, computer language (number-stations),
space language (sun and cosmic radiation), reconciled together.
Is there a universal language? Can perfection be achieved by attaining such a language? Will we be able to recognise this language as a language?
I will use the following equipment: different short wave receivers, a mixing desk, a computer with windows and AudioMulch. If there is no computer available then different effects equipment will be used.