Category Archives: or-bits
Welcome to 128kbps objects by or-bits.com
or-bits.com presents 128kbps objects on basic.fm 22 – 28 October 2012 at http://basic.fm/radio; from 12noon to 8pm daily A week-long internet radio exhibition which explores ideas of objects in transformation across a variety of artistic practices, mediums and sites. With … Continue reading
stimme-56kbps
stimme-56kbps (N/A); 53sec Broadcast on Tue 23 October at 07:25PM Stimme was a speech and Morse generator device used by the East-German Stasi during the Cold War era to send encrypted messages to their agents. Such messages and instructions were aired … Continue reading
Reading of an excerpt of Michel Foucault’s This is Not a Pipe
Reading of an excerpt of Michel Foucault’s This is Not a Pipe (1973); 7min Broadcast on Mon 22 October at 04:06PM In This is Not a Pipe, Foucault questions received notions of representation in art by engaging a number of … Continue reading
Claudia Fonti: 128kbps Ident (2012)
Claudia Fonti: 128kbps Ident (2012); 1:00min-40 sec 128kbps ident is the jingle of 128kbps objects radio exhibition. When Radio RAI International’s programmes were broadcast on FM, the tuning signal played during breaks in transmission was the bird song of a … Continue reading
Radiomentale: Recordare (2011)
Radiomentale: Recordare (2011); 17:06 Broadcast on Sun 28 October at 12:28PM Recordare is an audio piece inspired by the theme of memory and its alterations, a subject already present in a previous piece of the duo, Una Dolce Notte (2004), … Continue reading
Graham Harman: The Third Table – Read by Nazim Kourgli (2012)
Graham Harman: The Third Table – Read by Nazim Kourgli (2012); 22min Broadcast on Sun 28 October at 06:24PM Rebroadcast for EDITED on Thu 28 February 2013 at 05:39PM Graham Harman’s The Third Table is an essay that was published … Continue reading
Erica Scourti: live boring bedroom scene (2012)
Erica Scourti: live boring bedroom scene (2012); 12min Broadcast on Sat 27 October at 07:02PM A list of captions of stock video bedroom and sex scenes, recorded live, exploring mediated intimacy and generic images of desire, sex and romance. Made … Continue reading
Richard Crow and Gintas K: unburied evidence (2011)
Richard Crow and Gintas K: unburied evidence (2011); 50:05PM Broadcast on Thu 25 October at 02:31PM Recording from a live performance by Richard Crow and Gintas K at Rich Mix Bar, London (20122). Composers Gintas K / Richard Crow engage … Continue reading
Richard Crow: Institution of Rot archive playlist (2012)
Richard Crow: Institution of Rot archive playlist (2012) Broadcast on Wed 24 October at 06:06 PM and at 07:03PM (My Ukrainian hygienist (edit)) Richard Crow presents the Institution of Rot archive playlist which includes Mike Nichols & Elaine May Examine … Continue reading
Richard Crow with Lucia Farinati : Institution of Rot archive : A Blind Field (2010)
Richard Crow with Lucia Farinati : Institution of Rot archive : A Blind Field (2010); 20:30min Broadcast on Monday 22 at 06:03PM R E C O R D I N G S M A D E W I T H … Continue reading
Ed Carter: Aprosodia
Ed Carter: Aprosodia (2011-12) Broadcasting daily between 12am – 12oon and 8pm – midnight, as part of ’128 kbps objects’, a special week-long programme by or-bits.com on basic.fm Aprosodia means “… an impaired ability to comprehend or generate spoken forms … Continue reading
Selected by Emma Hart: Jonathan Wolff’s talk about Marx on Alienation (2008)
Selected by Emma Hart: Jonathan Wolff’s talk about Marx on Alienation (2008); 15min Broadcast on Thu 25 October at 06:18PM For 128kbps objects Emma Hart has selected a series of sound works, talks and lectures that resonates with the themes … Continue reading
Selected by Emma Hart: Philosophy 185 Heidegger by Hubert L. Dreyfus (2007)
Selected by Emma Hart: Philosophy 185 Heidegger by Hubert L. Dreyfus (2007); 1:18min Broadcast on Wed 24 October at 01:02PM For 128kbps objects Emma Hart has selected a series of sound works, talks and lectures that resonates with the themes … Continue reading
Paul Carr: The Fifth Runway Radio Tour – The Switch Episode (2012)
Paul Carr: The Fifth Runway Radio Tour – The Switch Episode (2012); 30min Broadcast on Tue 23 October at 02:00PM The Fifth Runway Radio Tour is a series of 30 minute programmes broadcast from the fictional district of Endwell, generating a … Continue reading
Benedict Drew: A Folding Table (2009)
Benedict Drew: A Folding Table (2009); 55 min Broadcast on Thu 25 October at 06:35 (A Table Top) and Sunday 28 at 06:08 (Some Legs) and at 6.48 (A Hinge (excerpt)) Rebroadcast for EDITED on Thu 28 February 2013 at … Continue reading
Irini Karayannopoulou: Transmission (2012)
Irini Karayannopoulou: Transmission (2012); 2:17min Broadcast on Mon 22 October 2012 at 01:54PM Rebroadcast for EDITED on Thu 28 February 2013 at 01:02PM Transmission urgent Transmission Biography: Irini Karayannopoulou lives and works in. She is part of Extra-Conjugale an … Continue reading
Salvatore Sciarrino: Perseo e Andromeda (1991) – Excerpt
Salvatore Sciarrino: Perseo e Andromeda (Perseus and Andromeda) (excerpt) (performed inStuttgart Staatstheater, 27th January 1991); 1:06:00 Broadcast on Sun 28 October at 04:53PM Perseo e Andromeda is an opera in one act and five parts created by Italian composer Salvatore Sciarrino … Continue reading
Scott Mason: of a final account in formation (2012)
Scott Mason: of a final account in formation (The Government of the First and Thirteenth Chair, Flat Time House) (2012); 30 sec. Broadcast on Mon 22 at 01:26PM and at 02:08PM. Rebroadcast for EDITED on Thu 28 February 2013 at … Continue reading
Interview with Eugenio Montale about Ossi di Seppia
Interview with Eugenio Montale about Ossi di Seppia; 1:53 min Eugenio Montale (October 12, 1896 – September 12, 1981) was an Italian poet and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975. Ossi di seppia (“Cuttlefish Bones”) is the … Continue reading
James Prevett : Porousness: Part Two (2012)
James Prevett : Porousness: Part Two (2012); 10min Broadcast on Mon 22 October at 05:42 and Friday 26 at 07:47 Porousness: Part Two sets out a seemingly strange narrative against layers of sounds from the selling objects. These sounds have … Continue reading
A—Z : E—Eponym: The Shell filled with Planets (2012)
A—Z : E—Eponym: The Shell filled with Planets (2012), 12:10 min Broadcast on Tue 23 October at 01:45PM and Fri 26 at 07:19PM Rebroadcast for EDITED on Thu 28 February 2013 at 07:22PM A blend of diverse components – An … Continue reading
AUDiNT: Wandering Soul (excerpt from Dead Record Office sound installation) (2012)
AUDiNT: Wandering Soul (excerpt from Dead Record Office sound installation) (2012); 14:11 min Broadcast on Mon 22 October at 02:11PM Re-formatted in 2008, AUDINT currently consists of Toby Heys and Steve Goodman. AUDINT is a research cell investigating how ultrasonic, … Continue reading




