Richard Kriesche
«Radiozeit»

The performance «RadioZeit» (RadioTime)took place during the International Radio Symposium «With the Eyes Shut». Kriesche invited participants to his studio at the foot of the historic hill, Schlossberg, in the old district of the Austrian city of Graz. The studio space was darkened. Outside, mounted before the studio’s window, was a satellite disc antenna receiving signals from a weather satellite. A beamer projected images of the earth’s surface onto a studio wall; and at the same time, a digital sampler keyboard was playing, on which Mozart’s «A Little Night Music» was saved. The artist sat at a table beside the image projections, reading aloud from his text «RadioZeit» in the glow of a small lamp. Of course, it was nearly impossible for the audience to understand a single word. The text vanished under the sounds of satellite signals and the triggered fragments of Mozart music: a perfect image for the noise of data, the all-coating, all-absorbing data-background of digital society—one of the crucial themes in Kriesche’s theoretical and artistic work.

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