Audio Scene '79 on "KUNST HEUTE" broadcast on July 22 1979 Audio Scene'79, Schloss Lengenfeld: Helmut Waldert (ORF) recording a performance by Ingrid Aperque.

On July 22nd 1979 the radio program KUNST HEUTE was dedicated to AUDIO SCENE'79, an international event on the subject "Sound as Medium of Visual Art". The program (narrated in German) contained excerpts of interviews and sound works by the international artists and theoreticians participating in the various AUDIO SCENE'79 events - including: Peter Downsborough Jana Haimson Aperque Arlene Schloss Vito Acconci Jack Goldstein Laurie Anderson Peter Gordon Dennis Oppenheim Ian Murray Bob George David Troostwyck Norbert Brunner/Hank Bull William Furlong Intakt Peter Grass Hank Bull (Boy Can See With His Ears) There is a voice-over German translation of many of the English statements in this radio program for a basically German-speaking audience. KUNST HEUTE (Art Today) was a monthly (later weekly) program dedicated to issues of international contemporary visual arts broadcast on the cultural channel of the National Austrian Radio, ORF. The first KUNST HEUTE went on air in September 1976 and in December 1977 began the practice of including audio/radio works by visual artists under the title "KUNST ZUM HÖREN" (ART FOR LISTENING) in every broadcast. KUNST HEUTE ended in December 1987 when it changed from being a broadcast about visual art into a site for radio-art under the name of "KUNSTRADIO RADIOKUNST" (ART-RADIO RADIO-ART).