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Radiostation: BBC Radio 3, Nightwave / BBC Radio 4, Shortstory

Producer: Matt Thomson, Pam Fraser Solomon

Artist: John Hegley, Rex Brough, Matt Thomson

Time of participation: 16:45 - 17:00, 24:00 - 0:10

CIRCLE OF STARS ( I AM A EUROPEAN....NOW)

Poets and one or two musicians or sound artists from around europe read poems in their own language or interpret what it is like to be a European from their point of view.
The poems are between 1 and 2 minutes long and read in a loop again and again. The music or sound is also repeated every 1 or 2 minutes A dubmeister in Britain flicks across the radio dial. first they hear a Scottish poet for about 1 minute....then the "radio dial" is flicked and a sampled noise of that is heard and we are linked live to a poet in Helsinki prehaps, the dial is flicked again music from Italy etc. etc.

We would keep our poet reading their poem live again and again for use by anyone in Horz radio, or you could use our actual broadcast. What do you think? is it possible to get some poets and musicians interested around Horz radio and will anyone be entering the network at that time. We are strictly limited to 16:45 to 1700 on the 22nd for this one.
It will be a short live programme where it is as if someone is tuning across the dial of a shortwave radio and picking up various voices/noises from around Europe which are all talking/performing short pieces about what it is to be a European.

I will have a rather good performance artist called John Hegley in a studio reading 3 poems each about two minutes long. We will then randomly take any other artists on the horizontal radio network or down the line ( ISDN, or Telephone) doing their thing, in their own language and broadcast them live over the airwaves in UK. Meanwhile we will be sending out down ISDN lines recordings of our poet on a constant loop to the network for use by anyone at that time or later.

I want a sense of anarchy plus fun. My chap will be funny. Noises are good. As we have 6 minutes out of the 15 then the listenner will get some sense of meaning in the soup. Babel's tower and all that.

Mud in Your eye.

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