beuysradio. making waves the programme
»Making Waves«: a celebration to mark the 100th birthday of Joseph Beuys and to kick off »beuysradio«. The 24-hour programme at once celebrates and examines the life and legacy of this pivotal artist: 100 voices from all over the world explore the artist's significance for the present in interviews and short statements. Rare audio documents offer an insight into his controversial understanding of art and history and convey the mood of the era in which Beuys became Beuys. Two podcasts examine the political and social meaning of myths in Beuys’ work and the democratic potential of free radio from South Africa to Tel Aviv to Halle. At the heart of »Making Waves« is the music that Beuys listened to, made, shaped and continues to inspire today.
12 May 20:00–24:00 h 1. Beuys and his old hat [1980] [in German] [6:32] 2. 100 Voices: Boris Pofalla, Olga von Schubert, Cara Jordan, Das BO [5:14] 3. Tom Waits: What’s he building? [1999] [3:16] 4. Well Beuys, you know: Susanne Titz in conversation with Kasper König [in German] [30:00] 5. Elisabeth Rosenthal: I like America [in German][7:00] 6. Noah Creshevsky: Great Performances [2021] [6:13] 7. 100 Voices: Marie Arleth Skov, André Odier, Kasia Lorenc, Kenneth Goldsmith, Ralf R. Ollertz, Toula Limnaois, Beth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle [2021] [5:07] 8. Benjamin Hasselhorn, Podcast: Die ganze Wirklichkeit – Braucht Demokratie Mythen? [in German] [35:00] Beuys described himself as a storyteller and cultivated an unbiased approach to myths. But aren't myths problematic or even dangerous, especially when they become political? Why can't we get rid of myths even in the 21st century? And how can we deal with them constructively? Fat and felt, German oaks and shamanism - Joseph Beuys has repeatedly made use of myths and archaic forms in his work and his self-portrayal. This has just as often brought him criticism - as a folk esoteric, pseudo-mystic, manipulative self-promoter. For isn't myth an irrational, latently falsifying representation of the past - often with fatal consequences for the present? The historian Benjamin Hasselhorn takes the controversy surrounding Beuys' treatment of myths as a starting point for fundamental considerations on the subject of myth and mythmaking. To which human needs do myths respond? Do we need myths in a pluralistic, democratic society? And if so - which ones? By Benjamin Hasselhorn Technical Realisation: Werner Jäger Director: Thomas Werner Production: WDR in Kooperation mit »beuys 2021« 9. Mozart – Pork, Beethoven – Pork: Playlist by Matthias Osterwold [85:00] Music, including text music, that influenced Beuys, music that he made himself, and music that others made about Beuys: Richard Wagner, Erik Satie, Marcel Duchamp, James Joyce, John Cage, Kurt Schwitters, Nam June Paik, Henning Christiansen, Peter Ablinger, Arturas Bums-teinas, Siegfried Koepf, Richard Rijnvo Tracklist: Erik Satie – Vexations John Cage Roaratorio – An Irish Circus on Finnegans Wake Erik Satie – Messe de pauvres (daraus: Comune qui mundi nefas) Richard Wagner – Parsifal Vorspiel (Berliner Philharmoniker, Wilhelm Furtwängler) Peter Ablinger – Piccolo und Rauschen für Piccolo-Flöte und CD Marcel Duchamp – Erratum Musical (for three voices) beuysradio. making waves das programm 1 John Cage – Music for Marcel Duchamp Alexei Lubimov – präpariertes Klavier Siegfried Koepf – Beuys Goes Pythagoras Henning Christiansen – Fluxorum Organum op. 39. Musik zu Joseph Beuys Eurasienstab (Franz Meiswinkel, Orgel der Liebfrauenkirche Düsseldorf) Kurt Schwitters – Ursonate Joseph Beuys – Ja Ja Ja Ja Ja, Nee Nee Nee Nee Nee Arturas Bumsteinas spielt Joseph Beuys Schottische Symphonie Joseph Beuys / Nam June Paik – In Memoriam George Maciunas John Cage – The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs Richard Rijnvos Block Beuys – Raum 3 Erik Satie – Le fils des étoiles (daraus: Prelude du premiere act 1) Alexei Lubimov – Klavier 10. Culture for Everyone: Raimar Stange in conversation with Olga von Schubert [25:00] 11. 100 Voices: María Cecilia Barbetta, Jonathan Meese, Hans Peter Riegel, Kea Wienand [3:49] 12. Milan Knížák & Opening Performance Orchestra: Broken Suite [2020] [23:00] Milan Knížák: sound sources, Opening Performance Orchestra: electronics The piece Broken Suite will be released during this year on CD Aktual univerzita at Sub Rosa. 13. 100 Voices: Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Adrian Piper, Peter-Klaus Schuster, Judy Lybke, Valie Export, Andreas Fischer, David Elliott [8:37]
13 May 0:00–4:30 h 14. »It’s not like I listen to concerts all the time«: Playlist by Ursula Block [85:00] ...it's not like I listen to concerts all the time... but logically a lot of other stuff that comes in through the ears, sheep instead of violins, piano Oxygen, speech operations, the purring of Paddy, Furguson, Spot and Arthur, funeral for a mouse, and Nescafé Gold, Yeah Yeah Yeah! With Konrad Schnitzler, Charlotte Moorman, Nam June Paik, Henning Christiansen, Terry Fox, Carlfriedrich Claus, Emmett Williams, Jackson Mac Low a.o. Tracklist: Konrad Schnitzler – Eruption 1 Jackson Mac Low – The Long Hot Summer Beuys / Christiansen – Schottische Symphonie. Requiem of Art, 1973 (Ausschnitt) Terry Fox – Isolation Unit Henning Christiansen – Abschiedssymphonie Emmett Williams – A Cellar Song For Five Voices Nam June Paik / Russel Connor – Waiting for Commercials Henning Christiansen – Schafe statt Geigen Carlfriedrich Claus – Lautagregat Terry Fox – The Labyrinth Scored for 11 Different Cats Henning Christiansen – Konstruktioner 15. EVERYTHING FLOWS, or: »Music is a message from the future«: Playlist by Anna Schürmer [60:00] Fluxus is the art of hybrid flow, the aesthetic panta rhei of processuality. And »everything flows« also applies to the work of Joseph Beuys. This playlist meanders between the avant-gardes and pop - and culminates in a pop-avant-garde crossover of »U« and »E«: »Ü-Musik" in other words - and a little surprise is also contributed by Beuys student and free-sequence researcher Emil Schuldt and his Transhuman Art Critics with an original composition for »beuys 2021«. If you want to experience the »expanded concept of art« on a formal aesthetic level while listening: Why not run this almost one-hour playlist in parallel with the good one- hour piano duet that Joseph Beuys performed together with Nam June Paik in 1978 »In memoriam George Maciunas« – or else the simultaneous performance by the two Fluxus heroes of Coyote III / Pianovariation (1984). Tracklist: Avantgarden John Cage – Williams Mix Phil Corner – Piano Activities Nam June Paik/Charlotte Moorman – Waiting For Commercials beuysradio. making waves das programm 2 Dieter Schnebel – Bagatelle #6, Trauermarsch (für Joseph Beuy Pop The Velvet Underground & Nico – femme fatale Jefferson Airplane – Lather John Lennon – Instant Karma! (We All Shine On) POPAVANTGARDE Henk Badings – Evolutions (Ballet Suite) #1 Ouvertüre Kraftwerk – Ruckzuck Die Partei (Walter Dahn) – Tag An Der Grenze Conrad Schnitzler – Magic Party Joseph Beuys – Sonne statt Reagan Martin Kippenberger – ja ja ja ja ja, nee nee nee nee nee BONUS TRACK Transhuman Art Critics – Original composition for »beuys2021« 16. Shamanism and Electricity: Playlist by Thibaut de Ruyter [120:00] This playlist confronts Beuys’ understanding of shamanism with ethnological music and contemporary compositions. The central piece of this playlist is »Ström« by Swedish artist Carl Michael von Hausswolff. For this track, Hausswolff amplifies and subtly transforms the sound of pure electricity. It’s about energy, physicality and grain – while it reminds of the tiny sensors plugged in »Unschlitt/Tallow« (1977) from Beuys, making us believe that the paraffin wax is full of energy and that we should be careful not to get an electric shock when approaching the artwork. Tracklist: Pan Sonic – Paine David Toop, Mabutawi Teri – Rain Song Raushan Orazbayeva & Tokzhan Karatai – Bashpai »Elim-Ai, Halkym-Ai« (Korkyt) (X-Xi Century) Cosey Fanni Tutti, Split – From The Album Tutti Daniel Schmidt And The Berkeley Gamelan – Rebab Delay Carl Michael Von Hausswolff – Ström Galya Bisengalieva – Tulpar Kali Malone – Sacrificial Code (Live In Hagakyrka) Holger Czukay – Breath Taking (With Karlheinz Stockhausen) Monks Of The Gandantegchinlen Monastery – Office Du »Qailangiyn Qural« Joseph Beuys – Sonne Statt Reagan Unknown – Kyrgyzstan - Koukou (Kiguatch Coz Komouz)
13 May 4:30–7:30 h 17. 100 Voices: Nezaket Ekici, Vadim Zakharov, Sara Barnes, Liav Mizrahi, Sibille Spiegel [8:43] 18. Die Tödliche Doris: Das typische Ding – Reenactment (I) [20:00] Die Tödliche Doris could be described as an invisible sculpture of which Beuys often spoke. Doris has no body. She forms in 1980 as a post-punk band with different lineups, liquefies in white wine in 1987 and celebrates her comeback in 2018 with the LP box Reenactment – The Typical Thing: 31 Sounds, 31 Drawings and 31 Reviews of 31 Different Vibrators. Doris herself, now in the form of many individual sex toys remains absent. Tracklist: Einführung VibratingBullet / RO-80mm Ammunition for love Better Than Chocolate Tiani 2 Getaway Rave Flare Cayona Penguin Tango Smartvibe Rub my duckie Motorhead Overkill Phoenix Magma Toy Iris beuysradio. making waves das programm 3 Partner plus Womanizer 2Go 19. 100 Voices: Karl-Heinz Bonny, Wolfger Pöhlmann, Miguel Rothschild, Catherine Evans, Thomas Koch [7:33] 20. Miki Yui: Plant Music [2021] [60:00] The electro-acoustic composition is inspired by an early drawing by Beuys, »Plant« from 1947. Here, »Plant« implies not only the mother of all organism on the earth but also the verb »to plant«, and »Music« is the transporter and the transformer into alternated flow of time and entangled space. »Plant Music« invites listener to an imaginary world at dawn - the process of a seed growing, embraced in soil, water, air, and light, the communication between micro-organisms become tangible. 21. Klang ist Skulptur – Terry Fox: Playlist by Carsten Seiffarth [55:00] Like Joseph Beuys, who said you hear a sculpture before you see it, his contemporary and fellow artist Terry Fox considered sound to be sculpture. Fox is a pioneer in working with sound as a sculptural material. In his art, traditional sculpture is extended through performative action in a specific duration and in a defined resonant space. An at least auditory impression of such situations is given by the three sound recordings of sound sculptures with long stretched piano strings in space presented here. The strings that Fox himself makes vibrate are both sculpture and instrument, and the sounds he produces are those of the resonating space as much as of the taut strings. For "Suono Interno" (1979, track 1), Fox stretched two piano strings lengthwise through the entire nave in an empty church in Bologna. In the 14-minute excerpt from this work, released here for the first time (with many thanks to Marita Loosen-Fox, Estate of Terry Fox), Fox, walking very slowly through the wide resonant space between the church portal and the crypt, strokes the two colophoned strings with his fingers. In the following two recordings from Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin (tracks 2 and 3), he plays long piano strings percussively minimalist with a chopstick at first, then with a resinated violin bow, creating an alternating strongly resonating in and out of the strings in the space. All sound recordings are excerpts from performances lasting several hours. Tracklist: Suono Interno [Bologna 1979] – 14:24 Min Track 2: Attic Wire, Beating [Berlin 1981] – 24:44 Min. Track 3: Attic Wire, Bowing [Berlin 1981] – 15:07 Min. 22. Culture for Everyone: Raimar Stange in conversation with Joulia Strauss [31:00]
13 May 7:30–12:00 h 23. Joseph Beuys at the Guggenheim, New York: An Audioguide [in English] [1979] [102:44] 24. 100 Voices: Alberta Mayo, Zhenhua Li, Sorana Serban, April Gertler, Albert Markert, Klaus Theuerkauf, Svea Duwe [11:34] 25. Culture for Everyone: Raimar Stange in conversation with Ulf Aminde [28:45] 26. 100 Voices: Marco Biermann, Tilman Baumgärtel in collaboration with https://ttsreader.com/, Barbara Breitenfellner, Gregor Jansen, Tereza de Arruda, Bogomir Ecker, Kathrin Becker, Carolin Bohlmann, Nicola Theisen [14:16] 27. How famous is Joseph Beuys? [in German] [1979] [58:06] 28. 100 Voices: Albrecht Schäfer und Antje Engelmann [2:08] 29. Beuys and the Celtic World: Playlist by Susan Philipsz [38:00] »I went to Belfast in 1994 to begin an MA in Fine Art at the University of Ulster. I knew that Joseph Beuys had also been to Belfast in the 1970's and that he was a big influence on my tutors who had been students at the time. I believe his visit changed the way art was taught in Belfast with more emphasis on performance and social political issues and site specific approaches. I also realise that the Celtic World had a big influence on Beuys. He was inspired by the nature and mythology of western Scotland, Ireland and England. I thought I would delve into this world to compile a playlist for beuysradio. I have made a selection of my favourite singers from different generations with songs that touch on themes of nature and landscape, of humans and the animal kingdom and of love, loss and social justice.« Susan Philipsz Tracklist: Robert Burns –The Highland Widow's Lament Alasdair Roberts – Pangs
beuysradio. making waves das programm 4 Radie Peat and Darragh Lynch (Lankum) – Hares on the Mountain Alasdair Roberts – River Rhine Elizabeth Cronin – Lord Gregory Anne Briggs – Reynardine Alasdair Roberts – Under No Enchantment Shirley Collins and the Albion Band – The White Hare Luke Kelly and Dave Philips – Wild Mountain Thyme Alasdair Roberts – Coral and Tar Shirley Collins – My Bonny Cuckoo 30. Well Beuys, you know: Eugen Blume in conversation with Sebastian Blasius [25:00]
13 May 12:00–16:00 h 31. Podcast Feature: Anna Bromley – Waves and Commons [in English] [180:00]
Italy, 1975. Socio-political struggles trigger a ‚radio wave revolution‘. By law, frequencies become commons. In the 1970s, Beuys intensively works in Italy. He is an ‚ear witness‘ to the emerging ‚radios di movimento‘. Not much later, clandestine ‚Free radios' will also broadcast in Beuys neighboring area in Germany. Of course, the spring of self-organized radio stations was not limited to Central Europe in the Seventies. Until today, radio activists invent their own, often clandestine ‚common wave forms‘ - be it in Germany, Israel, Italy, Hungary, South Africa, or Turkey.
With: Tanja Bosch, Ieva Gudaityte, Bodo K. and Uli K. (Radio Fledermaus), Alex Körner, Ilksen Mavituna, Liav Mizrahi, and Matteo Spanó. Speakers: Anna Bromley, Daniel Brunet, and Sybella Perry. Voice over: Podcastproduzenten Technical realization: Anna Bromley, Michael Fesca, and Manfred Miersch The podcast includes: - »Location Determination Difficulties«, radio drama by Anna Bromley 2020. - »Speaking in the Present«, performative reading with Caroline Adler, Salwa Aleryani, Chiara Dazi, Michael Fesca, Moritz Gansen, Chris Glee, Sönke Hallmann, Ulrike Jordan, Eylem Sengezer, Merve Ünsal, and Jo Zahn. Anna Bromley 2019.
32. Beuys Keep Swinging: Playlist by Arsalan Mohammad [60:00] Beuys Keep Swinging is an hour long radiophonic odyssey of contemporary and ancient music and noises honouring the many moods of Joseph Beuys. Kick back and soak up the sunshine. From coyotes to krautrock, this is an immersive supersonic sound extravaganza! Tracklist: Todrick Hall – I Like Boys David Bowie – Boys Keep Swinging Charlie XCX – Boys Simone Battle – He Likes Boys Erik Satie – Gnossienne No 1 The Waitresses – I Know What Boys Like Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Teach Your Children Monza – Rauf und Runter Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – Electricity Joseph Beuys – Sonne statt Reagan Sabrina – Boys (Summertime Love) Can – I Want More Joni Mitchell – Coyote Organization – Ruckzuck The Beatles – Boys
13 May 16:00–20:00 h 33. 100 Voices: , Gisela Staupe, Wolfgang Müller, Ellen Blumenstein, Thomas Stricker [5:12] 34. Culture for Everyone: Raimar Stange in conversation with Peter Niemann [23:07] beuysradio. making waves das programm 5 35. Joan La Barbara: Circular Song [1976] [7:31] 36. Yuan Gong: Five Questions on Joseph Beuys [5:00] 37. 100 Voices: Andreas Koch, Akane Kimbara, Adrian Schiesser, Marc Wellmann, Michal B. Ron, Dorothea Zwirner, Raimar Stange, Marianne Franz, Else Gabriel Wolfgang Zumdick, Ron Manheim, Barbara Gronau, Thomas Schnalke, Katja Blomberg, Thaddaeus Ropac, Beatrice E. Stammer, Ivo Wessel, Katharina von Chlebowski, Jonas Burgert [19:53] 38. Electronic Music 1977–1986: Playlist by Stefan Schneider [60:00] »If you’re really interested in music, you shouldn’t play the piano.« Joseph Beuys
This mix features a selection of tracks produced and released in West Germany during the diverse energy streams of the period 1978 – 1986, which set new, far-reaching musical impulses that are still effective internationally today. From the late 1970s onwards, electronic musical instruments, such as synthesizers and rhythm machines, were available cheaply for the first time and inspired many who had no prior musical knowledge to indulge in futuristic sound experiments. The simultaneously exploding musical awakening of punk met with a new self- determined and self-confident research and performance in all areas of contemporary art. Joseph Beuys, with his conceptual precision and his holistic social reorganization, was one of the most important impulse generators in the field of visual art during this time. Artistic activity, similar to punk and electronic music, was no longer linked to craftsmanship but strove for a complete redefinition of conditions and thus made a clear break with the understanding of art at that time. Brian Eno said in 1975: »The musician today is no longer a trained instrumentalist, but an artist who makes decisions.« Joseph Beuys also played a decisive role in the establishment of this new image of the artist. Tracklist: Loch (Joseph Beuys 1981, in der Kunsthalle Düsseldorf) Tonaufnahme Stefan Schneider, 2010 Conrad Schnitzler – Rhythmus 78 Ralf Dörper – Kranke Menschen Konrad Kraft – Arctica 3 Michael von Biel – Fassung Elektronische Musik Asmus Tietchens – TREKK Maria Zerfall – Wohin? Palais Schaumburg – Morgen wird der Wald gefegt (Live) MENTOCOME – B6 CHBB – MauMau SEESSELBERG – Synthetik 1 Ettlinger – bzw Reiko Kudo – Noise Kurzschluss – L’ inconnu Deux Baleines Blanches – Draht 6 Dino Oon – map Roter Stern Belgrad – Arfas & Issas
39. Culture for Everyone: Raimar Stange in conversation with Marina Naprushkina [25:10] 40. 100 Voices: Gesine Borcherdt, Jörg Sundermeier, Adrienne Goehler [4:31] 41. Well Beuys, you know: Catherine Nichols in conversation with Raimar Stange [25:00] 42. 100 Voices: Holm Friebe, Milan Knizak, Monika Brandmeier, Anna Bella Geiger, Gunnar Friel [4:15] 43. »The idea of music belongs more tot he future«: Playlist by Fernanda Parente [55:00] What will music sound like in the future? Will the next pop star be an artificial human? Will science and technology drive composition? Will audio and video be inextricably connected in the metaverse? This playlist features contemporary artists exploring some of these questions in their creative practice. Human-machine- nature symbiosis, acoustic instruments producing electronic-sounding beats, virtual reality headset records…these are some of the aspects permeating this compilation. They explore unchartered territories and speculate about possible musical futures. Tracklist: Byrke Lou – Earth
beuysradio. making waves das programm 6 Moritz Simon Geist – In g# (Katze läuft über Klavier) Brandt Brauer Frick – Masse Holy Herndon – Frontier Peaches & Pussykrew – Fill the Whole Ash Koosha – GUUD Yona - Art and Law Tarik Barri & Lea Fabrikant – Versum Nanotopia - Mycelial Networks between Reality 44. 100 Voices: Veronika Kellndorfer, Tomas Kleiner, April Gertler, Hannes Langbein, Karl Heinz Rummeny, Pipilotti Rist, Exterritory Project [Ruti Sela und Maayan Amir], Marcel Odenbach, Kristina Buch, Özlem Altin [17:42]
Concept and Project Management: Catherine Nichols Team: Eugen Blume, Anne-Marie Franz, Inga Nake, Bianca Quasebarth, Pia Witzmann Production: Die Podcastproduzenten (Tina Küchenmeister, Claudius Nießen, Tobias Rohe, Andreas Popella, Annegret Richter, Rabea Schloz)
With sincere thanks to all the people who contributed to the realisation of this comprehensive and exciting programme by lending us their support their voices, their music and their engagement with Beuys in interviews, conversations and podcasts.
»beuys 2021« ist ein Projekt des Ministeriums für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen in Zusammenarbeit mit der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf unter der Leitung von Prof. Dr. Eugen Blume und Dr. Catherine Nichols
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