INTRUSION: radio play workshop with Felix Kubin
Radio WORM and WORM Sound Studio present INTRUSION, a radio play workshop with Felix Kubin.
Radio plays, and radio art more broadly, are part of WORM’s DNA. Our radio station and sound studio have always fostered experimentation in broadcast formats and encouraged musicians and other artists to try the specific form of the ‘hoorspeel’. With the current boom in platform-listening, “vibe-curation” and easy-listening on-demand audio, we think the time is right to challenge listeners and bring critical narrative radio back to a broad audience. We want to invite you to produce something new, extraordinary, and possibly uncomfortable.
About the workshop
Over the course of this week-long workshop, participants will record and edit their own radio play, using the WORM Sound Studio with professional voice actors and the support of Felix Kubin.
The theme of the workshop is INTRUSION. That can be interpreted as you wish. Perhaps your audience won’t even know about the theme…until it’s too late.
Participants will refine their scripts in group readings, direct voice actors in performing the script, and use WORM’s collection of synths and instruments to record other sound elements (as well as bringing their own, already-recorded sources, depending on the demands of their piece). NB, scripts should be close to completion before the workshop! Participants will receive advice and feedback from the workshop leader Felix Kubin and from one another.
On the final day of the workshop, the finished radio plays will be presented in WORM’s cinema space in a public listening event, and later broadcast on Radio WORM. There may be the option to release the plays on the WORM Sound Studio’s label.
About the workshop leader
Felix Kubin is a composer, creator of radio plays, performer, media artist and curator.
A lovechild of the home recording era (he started to compose electronic 4-track music at the age of 12), his activities span futurist pop, electroacoustic and chamber orchestra music, radio art, lecture performances and writing. In 1998 he founded his own record label Gagarin Records. Over the last two decades, he has released numerous albums of different conceptual formats and played at well over hundred international contemporary music festivals. Felix Kubin likes to move between high and low culture, clubs and concert halls, as his main concern is the shifting of contexts and expectations.
About WORM Sound Studio and Radio WORM
WORM SOUND STUDIOS and the WAVEFORM RESEARCH CENTRE are internationally celebrated production spaces, part of a wider alternative network in the fields of radio art and underground music. The studio’s organisation has a wealth of DIY experience and facilities that are used by young programme makers, well-known musicians, sound artists and radio artists.
Both are part of a network of spaces in WORM, the Ultimate Playground: an ecosystem for new, deviant, vital culture: test environments for alternative art production and non-academic knowledge development.
Radio WORM existed as a series of commissioned radio art releases before developing into an online community radio platform in 2021. With a roster of several hundred regular radiomakers, the station broadcasts 6 days a week, with sorties to live festival environments including Rewire (the Hague) and Ultima (Oslo) as well as producing its own live events such as the 25 Hour Radio Relay and Delta Listening.
Fee
A workshop fee of €50 per person participating is asked. If this is not possible for you, we have a small number of heavily reduced spaces. Please indicate in the application form if your participation would depend on this.
Key dates
Submission period: 14 August – 20 September
Applicants notified: 2 October
Workshop dates: 16-22 November
Presentation: Sunday 22 November
The application requires
- An outline of a script that will be 7-10 minutes in total duration, that engages broadly
- Examples of any relevant existing work
Questions? Write to ash@worm.org
This workshop is supported by Goethe-Institut Niederlande
