One hundred years of radio are enough. The earth-spanning transmitter network is switched off and the transmission frequency is deleted.

The studio is dismantled during ongoing broadcasts. Accompanied by jamming signals and wistful choral singing, the radio staff says goodbye. Last greetings, numerical codes and sea weather reports are transmitted, interspersed with a jumble of different station identifiers. Interference from distant voices and stations, an analog hiss, the crackling of the oscillating circuits. Then the antennas are retracted. The radio dissolves into its components. The ether is revealed.

Felix Kubin, born in Hamburg in 1969, is a composer, radio play producer, performer, media artist and curator. He moves between high and underground culture, clubs and concert halls. In 2019, French filmmaker Marie Losier made the documentary fantasy "Felix in Wonderland" about him, which was shown on ARTE and at MoMA, among others. He plays concerts around the world both solo and in various collaborations, runs the record label "Gagarin Records" and is one of the founders of the "Papiripar" festival for pop, art and rotation in Hamburg.

A co-production of Deutschlandfunk Kultur, 2023 and Ö1 Kunstradio 2023.

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