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HORSPIL episodes

  • Bruilofslied/Wedding Song (English), 2008

    Orpheus wakes up in a shop doorway in Delfshaven... ‘Bruiloftslied’ traces his psychological, physical and emotional journey through the streets of Rotterdam on his first day alone on earth, having lost his love Eurydice to the underworld.

    Text & Narration: Boz Temple-Morris. Music: Recording SoundConcept; Construction. Editing & Production: Alladair McGregor, Howard Jacques, Melanie Clifford. Cast: Stephie Buttrich, Samuel Collings.

    44 min
  • Wet dreams of the Pope (English), 2007

    The story is about a hypocritical Pope, who a hypocritical mass of humanity are willing to forgive for his annoying political gestures to the far right and to spiritual oppression,  his spiritually kicking liberation theologists where it hurts most, and his beatifying and lionizing the most oppressive kingpins of Catholicism. It also deals with the political intrigues surrounding the mysterious death of the whistleblowing and house cleaning John Paul I to be replaced by II, who turned a blind eye to Opus Dei, to the Vatican bank scandals and other spiritual hypocrisies and became a champ of the good old boy network.

     Text: Black Sifichi, Bart Plantenga. Direction, sound design, editing: Lukas Simonis. Voices: Black Sifichi (Narrator), Roma Napoli (Velena), Yosel (The Pope), Bart Plantenga (Producer), Gondolier & Marcinckus (DJ Pausa, Lukas Simonis).

    57 min
  • The Tabacconist (English), 2015

    A radiophonic opera about smoking tobacco. The Tobacconists are Scott Foust (Idea Fire Company/Swill Radio), Mike Popovich, and Frans de Waard (Kapotte Muziek/Korm Plastics). But I’m not sure if Mike is on this radio gem. Produced and played by the lot.

    38 min
  • De goede Buurman (Dutch), 2013

    A documentary radio play inspired by ‘Morosophism in theory and practice’. Musician and furniture-maker Hansko Visser is searching for the grave of a former neighbour—“If your neighbour is building time machines, one never knows when will he be buried…”—and what eventually amounts to the search for the neighbour in himself, and the search for a musical instrument that might make the world a better place, and its people happier… 

    With a poem by William Carlos Williams, the voice of Klaske Oenema, the right bicycle wheel and the Symphony Of The New World by Antonin Dvorak. In Memory of neighbour Jaros.


    Director, sound design, editing: Hansko Visser.

    53 min

About HORSPIL

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WORM begon in 2005 met de experimentele radiokunst serie ‘Horspil’. Dat had meerdere aanleidingen; de eerste was het megalomane 4 uur durende oerhoorspel ‘Grindpad naar las Palmas’ dat live voor de VPRO radio werd opgevoerd en door de toenmalige Worm-crew werd gemaakt -en naar meer smaakte.