Cabaret Voltaire from Sheffield paved the way for industrial culture in the mid-1970s. In his 1982 solo album Pow-Wow, founding member Stephen Mallinder explored the possibilities of dynamic minimalism.
Miniatures
Series of radiophonic miniatures that tell stories, take listeners on acoustic journeys or document situations. Broadcast on national radio DLF-Kultur between 2015 and 2024.
#237: Henry Kawahara – Yorokobi-No-Koe
When cyber-shamanism emerged in Japan in the 1980s, 3D sound recording technologies and brain machines were developed there to simulate the effects of hallucinogenic drugs. Henry Kawahara was at the centre of this movement.
#256: Joseph Nechvatal – ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~venus©~Ñ~vibrator,even 1
Joseph Nechvatal’s 1995 cybersex novella '~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~venus©~Ñ~vibrator, even' is based on the idea that any form of sexual order is only temporary and that social gender is therefore in a permanent state of becoming.
#259: Diamanda Galás – Deliver Me From Mine Enemies: IV. Ε Ξελόυ Mε [Deliver Me]
After her brother died of AIDS in 1986, Diamanda Galás took the side of those affected by the disease. The New York avantgarde artist and soprano opposed the Catholic Church’s view that AIDS was a punishment from God.