35 years of Kunstradio and 55 years of Österreich 1. To celebrate, Kunstradio is spotlighting some of Kunstradio's projects and productions of the past decades in its July program.

A look back at the series "Literature as Radio Art," plus "Ghostengine - Speaking without Language" by Liesl Ujvary, with Ann Cotten and Hanno Millesi.

Literature as Radio Art

Liesl Ujvary developed the series "Literature as Radio Art" in 1999, which Ujvary handed over to Chris Zintzen in 2001. Chris Zintzen curated and supervised the project until 2014.

In total, "Literature as Radio Art" includes 60 authors from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Approximately 20-minute radio pieces were created in collaboration with ORF sound engineers in the radio drama studio RP4 in the Vienna Funkhaus in 5.1 surround sound. The basic idea was to use only the artist's own voice as source material.

Ghostengine - Speaking without Language
by Liesl Ujvary, with Ann Cotten and Hanno Millesi

Three writers try to communicate without language, stay in their field, so to speak, but operate with different, new means. The theremin serves Ann Cotten (writer, plays flute), Hanno Millesi (also writer, plays electric guitar) and Liesl Ujvary (writer, electronics) as a "language instrument" - one that they - as newcomers to this instrument - explore experimentally, full of curiosity and thirst for research.

Liesl Ujvary additionally plays on the Kaoss pad, a simple device that filters the sounds of the theremin once again and in different ways. The individual tracks were mixed again by Ujvary; compositions were created that sketch a panorama of human existence: direct, touching, non-verbal.

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