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Recipes for Disaster

(1997)

Performance for Recycling the Future, Kunst Radio, Vienna, Austria, 1997.



(excerpt from the performance text)

RECIPE NO. 4 HOW TO DO A RADIO STRIPTEASE (NAKED)
or tactics for community radio towards a radio without programming

1-Always give the wrong time, date, weather and news report.

2-Constantly change your broadcasting frequency.

3-Do any technical repairs, regular cleanings, planning for shows, committee meetings, training sessions, etc. on the air.

4-Say what another station is saying at the same time. If they complain, tell them you're a ventriloquist.

5-Insist on the global installation of radio parking meters. The more you stay tuned to only one station the more you have to pay.

6-Have an "Upside Down Week", where all shows would be found in a different time slot.

7-Have a "Search Week" where all shows would not be found.

8-Have a "Traffic Jam" where stations in different cities broadcast each other's traffic reports and not their own.

9-Play the accordion: go from one watt to full power in one watt per day increments and back down again.

10-Try to fill a two hour show with a two second song.

11-Try to do fill a two second show with a two hour song.

12-When you have an interview, have the interviewee at the controls and you at the guest spot.

13-Dissect the equipment of your radio station into its component parts: transistors, capacitors, integrated circuits, etc. and send one out to each of your listeners.

14-Go as fast as the technology you're using. Carry your words to your listeners by running.