'LeMomo' is
the name that Antonin Artaud gave his 'new body' after he was released
from an insane asylum in Rodez, France. During his time there he was
administered various sorts of electro-shock therapy, and afterwards
he suffered from an undiagnosed cancer of the anus. His final radio
broadcast was conducted under the influence of this prolonged exposure
to electro-shock, a growing rectal disease, and a desire to test the
sensibility
of French citizens. It was banned at the last minute by authorities.
In this spirit,
members of the Kunstradio team (Groiß, Hammer, Jaeger, and Siedl)
participated in the AFTERADIO festival: a desire to explore the guts
and innards of an object reduced primarily to iconhood: vintage radio.
The goal was to deconstruct and manipulate the sounds and images of
"old-time" radio mixed with new sound-production technologies;
laptop computers, voice-manipulation programs, freeware, and real-time
processing apps were used alongside the real, "raw" sounds
of the vintage-radio in question as it was picked apart and demolished
by the Kunstradio team for all in Bologna to witness.
The project page
contains video and sound excepts that are the results of this process/
project. Unusual glitches, staticky beats, fuzzes, and hums are accompanied
by various strung-together videos of 'old' and 'new' applications
of an object reduced to a meme for a certain generation.