Every fourth wednesday, from 9 to 11pm, I play audio experiments, interview people and play music, on Radio Blau (a public access station in Leipzig). You can listen live at stream.radioblau.de or at 99.2 FM if you’re in the area; schedule of upcoming shows. Check out the archive below to re-listen, you can also subscribe at mixcloud.com/kubshow.
New listeners: go listen to Best of Season 1!
Fans of fast music & noise-pop collages: check out Kubshowerhead, a “band” “project” that spun off in Ep#13.
Mit dem ersten Wunschgast und Radio-Buddy (Hilmar), der Künstlerin Annique Delphine (weiblich), Psychotest-Farbfeldern (grau), Kassetten (rauschig), Stühle (quietschig), ersten MP3s (glitchig), dem ersten virtuell-auditiven Bleigießen (extrem rauschig).
Ein Abend mit der Künstlerin und Regisseurin Josephine Kremberg!
Wir machen (von mir dringend benötigte) Entspannungs- und Lockerungsübungen, gehen einen brutalen Psycho-Fragebogen durch und schließlich lasse erhalte ich Schauspielcoaching um besser in die Rollen “Homer Simpson” und “Meryl Streep” zu schlüpfen.
We turn two chapters of James Turek’s comic book “Motel Shangri-La” into an audio play! It’s almost like one of his readings: cool desert sound effects, cool desert soundtrack, his crisp smoky voice… plus me nasally describing what happens in the drawings.
Then Dave-Sensei hops on the show and I try to make him trip with the codeswitchingiest GermoEnglish write-up ever, but he barely breaks a sweat!
I welcome artist Lily and philosopher Laurentiu to the new Radio Blau studio!
We discover music in Wittgenstein’s writings, wrestle with nutria for field recordings and play What’s That Grind!
My “grind” spin-off “band”: kubshowerhead.bandcamp.com.
On this guestless show I present four experimental audio pieces from the archives:
Die Mumbles aus Berlin sind im Studio! Nach einem schwitzigen On-Air-Soundcheck spielen sie einige wunderschön betitelte Songs, von den wir feststellen dass sie irgendwie ins Genre Mumblecore passen, aber definitiv nicht Trash sind. Wir sprechen über Ketchup-Brötchen, Tightness und Tourbuserlebnisse und machen Psychotests wie “Welches Tier bist du” (oder so) und “Welcher Musiker passt zu Ihnen”.
Radio Blau buddy and mentor Dave is in the studio! Stories of Britain and Dalmatian watching people fall. We have a table read of a Star Trek episode about the intricacies of intercultural communication. Finally a nice but embarrassing (to me) round of Discard or Picard! Which makes like 60% of this episode Star Trek themed, yikes!
First I read a letter I got from the President of the Radio Blau Committee For Broadcasting Excellence Committee, and, uh, it’s like it’s already working!
Tom spielt und singt live seine Musik, wir diskutieren ob das Leben wirklich so schwierig ist und vergleichen dann Zeugnisse. Befriedigend!
Finally we call professional, too cool for school comedians Paul Salomone and Daniel Louis Vezza who are performing at the Melt Festival. Satisfactory!
Artist, poet, language guy Stew Tunnicliff is in the studio! We talk about how his name relates to life guards, discuss more mediocre movies, recite poetry by Youtube Auto-Caption and Pick-ard a soundtrack. We talk to Marta about ape-heavy taxa and try to pronounce allegedly monosyllabic words. You’ve got to be wikidding me!
This episode is full of technical blunders (I blame my low blood sugar), and you can constantly hear birds as I forgot to shut the window. Sorry!
