HORSPIL

A radio version of a piece by Geerlings, which was previously performed on the boards as a mime, dance, or  theatre. It¹s a monologue by an expensive sort of sex-toy (not a blow-up-doll we concluded!) called Alphie. Alphie messes up a relationship, and doesn¹t come out unscathed.

With mostly mechanical music, from the French instrument builder/musician/composer, Pierre Bastien. Bastien is also known for his work for the Rephlex label, and Geerlings is known because he is an inspired Rotterdams theatre writer, who¹s worked in the past with Paul De Jong (The Books).

Text: Erik-Ward Geerlings. Muziek: Pierre Bastien. Directeur en mixage: Lukas Simonis. Stem: Nanette Edens.

A coming-of-age drama, featuring a killer in reflective moments of times future and past, starting abruptly at the moment of pulling the trigger, replete with harrowing visions and a journey into the unknown. On one of his last assignments – to assassinate the stubborn last independent record company owner in Switzerland, who’s annoying the Russian download-mafia – the killer gets thrown into another dimension of awareness, something to do with sound….

Productie, scenario & compositie: Jeroen Visser. Stemmen: Jaap Achterberg, Sybille Aeberili, Malaku Belay, Ato Gashaw, Ato Rifle, Jos Klay, Samuel Streiff.

No Man's Land deals with the Dust Bowl period in the USA, particularly with the people who lived and stayed in the Oklahoma Panhandle. The radio play portrays the story of Hazel Lucas, who migrated to Boise City in Cimarron County as a child and lived through the worst of the hard times during this ecological and economical disaster. No Man's Land. 

Production, mixing, composition: Robert van Heumen. Voice: Marilyn Ivy.

Wetenschap kan lang duren. Geduld is de methode van de onzorgvuldigen. En dat dan drie maal. Een quasi-wetenschappelijke studie annex hoorspel/musical over de onmacht van de Mensch te communiceren en de tijd die dat in beslag neemt, op subtiele wijze, als was het een cricket-match, in den engelschen taal becommentarieert door Vivian Cook. 

Text, idee en uitvoering: Coolhaven. Mixage: Lukas Simonis.

The British visual artist and electronic musician Phoebe Jeebe and the Australian soundscape artist Jonathan Bailey Cooke worked during the summer of 2009 in the WORM Studio on this radiophonic composition, a musical adaptation of the report by Dutch adventurer Abel Tasman on his discovery of the unknown south.

Written and produced by Jeebe & Cooke.

‘Newyork Revolution Plan/ Newyork Counterrevolution Plan ’is a  new radiophonic work of Chinese writer and sound artist Yan Yun. Not only known for his poetry but also for his experimental music and sound works. His poems rely mostly on journalistic notions of the political situation in his country. He considers his poems as political poems, because poetry in itself is a political act, according to Yan Yun. The piece was made and played live for the 2nd Poetry International Studio, but the recording is made at studio Loos Den Haag and mixed at WORM studio.

A radio play for flute composed by Christopher Williams in collaboration with Barbara Held, ‘Hispaniola’ is a work in four acts somewhere between an experimental Hörspiel and an electroacoustic composition. Its title is borrowed from the protagonist ship of the mythical adventure novel Treasure Island, which functions as a source of material, a metaphorical axis, and an inspiration for the project as a whole.

Recorded by Lukas Simonis and Ferran Fages. Mixed by Lukas Simonis and Christopher Williams. Voices: Justin Bennett (Dr. Livesey), Amy Lucas and Terry Savage (the Protestant Boys), Barbara Held and Christopher Williams (Lillibullero and Overtures from Richmond). Including fragments from Mercury Theatre’s 1938 radio adaptation Treasure Island, directed by Orson Welles; fragments from the 1934 film adaptation of Treasure Island (featuring Jackie Cooper and Wallace Beery), directed by Victor Fleming. Texts based in part on Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island (first publication 1886).

On the occasion of the 1st Poetry International in June 2010, the Danish poet Ursula Andkjaer Olsen joined the WORM crew to make this radiophonic work. The piece is filled with paving and garden furniture and is a provider for all your needs in and around the garden. 

Text: Ursula Andkjaer Olsen. Composers: Bakker/Simonis. Voice: Ursula Andkjaer Olsen. Bass clarinet, electronics: Henk Bakker. Voice, harp: Yuko Uesy. Cello: Nina Hitz. Guitar, voice: Lukas Simonis.

 “Hello, my name is Dr. Naut...but please call me Kosmo. I am a doctor of Science and after Oxford, I got involved in an intensive study discovering structural tendencies within micro-organisms, for which I had to travel into the outer orbits of our solar system. Light-years away from anything familiar. An accident happened, I was sent back to Earth and now I am blind.”

The music of Blatnova summons a magical biotope in which 1950s optimism, functionalism, UFO’s, and 1960s design, scifi and ecology peacefully coexist. This is a complete recipe, alchemical cookery. During the listening experience you see that in the boxes of your music installation there’s a little door. You step through it and you end up in a new cosmos. 

Direction, sound design, editing: Jobina Tinnemans.

An audio-play about interdimensional dropouts, alien refugees and going cosmic. Listen and hear. G Lucas Crane is a sound artist and sound performer working in the medium of analogue tape and obscured and recovered memory in the digital age. Angela Moor is an artist working in sound and video with the focus on the mythical and mystical.