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Radio work

• Radio art works broadcast on more than 60 radio stations across the world under the name Mobile Radio with Sarah Washington, with commissions from a.o. ORF Kunstradio, WDR3, Radia Network, documenta radio
• Production of hundreds of live and pre-produced radio shows, encompassing series such as Render and Radiaphiles for documenta 14, Wikipedia Writing on Air for Radio Revolten, Veto-Show for Resonance FM; technical production of a.o. CWCH collective for 10 syndicated radio stations and Clingradio for Resonance FM.
• Live radio art transmissions from outside locations e.g. gallery, museum, biennial, festival, conference, backyard, wine mountain, wine cellar, Atomium
• Broadcast interviews with a.o. Oval/Markus Popp, Erkki Kurenniemi, Arto Lindsay & Vivian Caccuri, Elliott Sharp, Nicolas Collins, Lol Coxhill

Organisation/Curatorship (selection)

• Feedback: Order from Noise, curator for CMN/LMC music tour and subsequent CD/DVD release with a.o. Alvin Lucier and Otomo Yoshihide, UK, 2004
• Radia, co-founder of international radio art network including curation of more than 40 Radia productions, 2005 – ongoing
• Radia Art Camp, organiser of radio art production conclave and subsequent series of ORF Kunstradio programmes, Gasometer Oberhausen, Germany, 2010
• Mobile Radio BSP, co-organiser and producer of 2400 hours of radio art for 100 day radio station at 30th Art Biennial of São Paulo, Brazil, 2012
• Dubbelradio, co-organiser of 24h dual frequency radio art festival, Stockholm, Sweden, 2013
• Radio Revolten, artistic director of month-long international radio art festival with 100+ artists in performance, radio and exhibition, Halle, Germany, 2016
• Ortsgespräche, artistic director of the sound and radio art project of Goethe Institut Warsaw in five Polish cities, 2018 – 2019
• Radio Art Zone, artistic co-director with Sarah Washington of 100 day radio art celebration as part of European Capital of Culture Esch2022, Luxembourg, 2022

Improvised Music

• Solo performance on feedback electronics
• Long standing duo Tonic Train with Sarah Washington (CD Continuous Interruptions released 2021 on ANTENNA NON GRATA)
• Duos with a.o. Lol Coxhill (RIP), Tetsuo Kogawa, Lu Edmonds, Phil Minton, Toshimaru Nakamura, Marcus Heesch, Lepke B.
• Tonic Train trios with more than 20 different guest musicians such as Haco, Xentos Fray Bentos, Chris Cutler, Billy Roisz, Gunter Pretzel, Nicholas Bussmann, Lloyd Dunn, Børre Mølstad.
• Membership in groups and larger ensembles such as Feedback People, ReSponge, Resonance Radio Orchestra and London Improvisers Orchestra.
• Concerts in Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, UK, USA, with music releases on MIKROTON, EMANEM and ANTENNA NON GRATA.

Composition (selection)

• BLOCK (2004, for feedback ensemble, released on MIKROTON CD 33 | 34 | DVD 35)
• Resonanz117,5fm (2007, for MONO@DEGEM, Gasometer Oberhausen)
• Imaginary Radio Band No. 1 (2013, for Addicted2Random festival, Händelhaus Halle)
• Solo for hearing aids (2017, for Resonance FM, Courtyard Theatre London)
• The Compression Chamber (2019, for a.o. Sphere Radio, Leipzig, Radio Kapitał, Warschau, Papiripar Festival, Hamburg)
• Birthday piece (2000, released on EMANEM 4203 & 4206), Initialisation (2018) & Sustaining the Music (2020, all for London Improvisers Orchestra)
• On rare occasions interpretation of musical scores a.o. Cornelius Cardew, Annea Lockwood, Nam Jun Paik, Alvin Lucier, Walter Marchetti

Installation (selection)

• Feedback Siesta, on air sound installation for Kunsthof, Zurich, Switzerland, 2007
• Lee De Forest night loops, on air sound installation for AV Festival, Newcastle, UK, 2008
• The Filling Station, on air sound installation for transmediale09, Berlin, Germany, 2009
• Klingelpütz Parkuhr, radios in inner city park trees for Art Special, Cologne, Germany, 2010
• Dune o’Din, live on air silence detector installation for 30th Art Biennial of São Paulo, Brasil, 2012
• Changing of the Guard, live on air silence detector installation for Radio Revolten, Halle, Germany, 2016, represented in Radiophonic Spaces exhibition, Museum Tinguely, Basel, HKW, Berlin and Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar, 2018/2019
• when all else fails, live on air silence detector installation for SAVVY Contemporary/documenta 14, Berlin, Germany, 2017

Film

• Dubbelradio, documentary of the world’s first dual frequency radio art festival, Stockholm, 2013

Teaching (selection)

• Introductory courses for postgraduate students at Central Saint Martins, London (instrument design, 2004) and Dutch Art Institute, Enschede (sound art, radio art & performance, 2005 & 2006)
• Circuit Bending, Radio Hacking, Radio Art or Electronic Music workshops in Copenhagen, Munich, Cologne, Stockholm, Barrow, London, Prague and Luxembourg
• Guest lectures at Bath Spa University, the University of Brighton, London College of Communication, the Academy of Media Art Cologne as well as talks and presentations for conferences, festivals and institutions
• Visiting lecturer for full semester postgraduate course module (Radia & Slow Radio – developing and producing experimental radio) at the chair of Experimental Radio at Bauhaus University, Weimar, 2018

Writing (selection)

• Feedback, editor and contributor for Resonance 9.2 magazine plus CD, London Musicians’ Collective, 2002
• Breaking the Airwaves, survey of contemporary radio art, The WIRE magazine #320, 2010
• Art through the Ether / Kunst, die über den Äther geht, radio art dossier in English and German for the Goethe Institut, 2018
• Radio Revolten – 30 days of radio art, co-editor and contributor for book about the international radio art festival Radio Revolten, Spector Books, 2019
• Feet First Into The Ether, survey of contemporary radio art, The WIRE magazine #449, 2021
• Radio Art Zone, assistant editor and contributor to radio art anthology, Hatje Cantz, 2023

Residency & stipend (selection)

• Open Studios Prague Dolni Pocernice, Czech Republic, 2006
• FAAP Residencia Artistica, São Paulo, Brasil, 2012
• Wave Farm residency, Acra, NY, USA, 2015
• Kunststiftung Sachsen-Anhalt work stipend, Halle, Germany, 2016
• Agosto Foundation residency, Prague, Czech Republic, 2018
• Villa Waldberta Artist in Residence Munich, Germany, 2021
• Bridderhaus residency, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, 2022

Downloads

• Short biography
• Kurzbiografie

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