Weaving together cultural and technological history, aesthetic analysis, and epistemological reflection, his investigation reveals how radiophony transforms expression and, in doing so, calls into question assumptions about language and being, body and voice.Phantasmic Radio presents a new perspective on the avant-garde radio experiments of Antonin Artaud and John Cage, and brings to light fascinating, lesser-known work by, among others, Valère Novarina, Gregory Whitehead, and Christof Migone. Weiss explores the meaning of radio to the modern imagination. In this original work of cultural criticism, Allen S.

Allen S.The alienation of the self, the annihilation of the body, the fracturing, dispersal, and reconstruction of the disembodied voice: the themes of modernism, even of modern consciousness, occur as a matter of course in the phantasmic realm of radio.

Jon Pareles, review, 'Five Concerts All at Once, And It's Quiet', New York Times, April 24, 2004 Listen to episode Paranormal Underground Radio: Gavin Kelly & Paula Purcell - Phantasmic Ghost Hunters by Paranormal Underground Radio on Vocalmatic.

Joe Milutis, 'Radiophonic Ontologies and the Avant-Garde,' TDR 40, no. Phantasmic Radio presents a new perspective on the avant-garde radio experiments of Antonin Artaud and John Cage, and brings to light fascinating, lesser-known work by, among others, Valre Novarina, Gregory Whitehead, and Christof Migone.

Elisabeth Mahoney, review, The Loneliest Road, The Guardian, October 20, 2003.

Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, 'No Wound Ever Speaks For Itself' in Art Forum, January 1992, p. 70.

A Profile of New Radio Art, in: Simon Emmerson (ed), Music, Electronic Media and Culture (Ashgate, 2000).

Kristiana Clemens, review, Turned On, Tuning In, Musicworks #95, Spring, 2005, p. 53.

It attends to the jarring and brilliant broadcast of ideas as they dance across our eardrums. Jacki Apple, 'Screamers', High Performance, Spring, 1992. Historically rich, astute, and argumentative, Phantasmic Radio charts the theoretical flutters in the land of lost bodies and drifting signals.2015 'On the Shore Dimly Seen', short-listed for Prix Italia.

2006 'No Background Music', Sony Gold Radio Academy Award.2004 'The Loneliest Road', Sony Gold Radio Academy Award.1995 'The Thing About Bugs', special commendation, Prix Futura.1993 Shake, Rattle, Roll received the BBC Newcomer Award at the Prix Futura competition in Berlin.1992 Pressures of the Unspeakable received a Prix Italia award. On this episode of Talking Terror, your spooky boys of the show have been hearing stories about a mortician that is super.The Loneliest Road and No Background Music (featuring Sigourney Weaver) both won Sony Gold Academy Awards. Since 2000, Whitehead has produced numerous plays and documentary essays for BBC Radio, including The Marilyn Room (2000), American Heavy (2001), The Loneliest Road (2003), On One Lost Hair (2004), No Background Music (2005), The Day King Hammer Fell From The Sky (2007) and Bring Me The Head of Philip K. Other radioplays from the 1990s include Pressures of the Unspeakable (1992), Nothing But Fog (1996) and Bewitched, Bothered, Bewildered (1997). Whitehead collaborated with Christof Migone on the 1995 radio play, The Thing About Bugs, for New American Radio. In 1991, RRRecords released a 7” vinyl record titled Vicekopf. Active in cassette culture during the 1980s, his early works include Disorder Speech (1985), Display Wounds (1986), Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1987), The Pleasure of Ruins (1988), Writing On Air (1988) and Reptiles and Wildfire (1989).

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