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.