WORM begon in 2005 met de experimentele radiokunst serie ‘Horspil’. Dat had meerdere aanleidingen; de eerste was het megalomane 4 uur durende oerhoorspel ‘Grindpad naar las Palmas’ dat live voor de VPRO radio werd opgevoerd en door de toenmalige Worm-crew werd gemaakt -en naar meer smaakte.
Het tweede was een zak geld die ons toegegooid werd door het onvolprezen (toen nog wel) Mondriaan fonds.
Ten derde; het samengaan met het Centrum (contactorgaan?) voor Electronische Muziek dat Worm, behalve een electronische studio ook de aanwezigheid van radioman Armeno Alberts bracht die het programma (oook VPRO) ‘Cafe Sonore’ maakte. Daar werden voortaan de radiostukken gespeeld.
Besloten werd een 5tal hoorspelen per jaar te maken, soms geproduceerd door een Worm-crew, altijd gemaakt met gasten of op speciale uitnodiging. Zeer basaal concept was; maak een radiostuk waarbij text, inhoud en geluidscompositie een gelijk aandeel hebben. Waarbij krakende deuren, mensen die op grindpaden lopen en trappen bestijgen uit den boze waren.
De reeks loopt nog steeds en werd door de jaren heen ook nog zo nu en dan uitgebracht als Worm-uitgave, eerste als CD, later op cassette met speciale verpakkingen en in kleine oplages. Bij deze podcast serie een eerste, arbitraire greep met stukken uit verschillende periodes.
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In 2005 WORM began 'Horspil’, an experimental radio art series. It came about for several reasons; the first was the megalomaniac 4 hour-long primal radio play 'Grindpad naar las Palmas', made by the then-WORM crew and performed live for VPRO radio.
The second came about thanks to a bag of money thrown at us by the (then still unsurpassed) Mondriaan fund. The third was initiated by the merger with the Center for Electronic Music that WORM, which brought with it both an electronic studio, and the presence of radio operator Armeno Alberts; who made the programme (also VPRO) 'Cafe Sonore'. From then on the radio pieces were played there.
It was then decided to make about 5 radio plays a year, sometimes produced by a WORM crew, always with guests or by special commission. The basic concept was; make a radio piece in which text, content and sound composition have an equal share. Where creaking doors, people walking on gravel paths and climbing stairs were out of the question.
The series is still running and has also been released every now and then as a WORM product, first as a CD, later on cassette with special packaging and in small editions. This podcast series is a first, arbitrary selection with pieces from different periods.
A radio version of a piece by Geerlings, which was previously performed on the boards as a mime, dance, or theatre. It¹s a monologue by an expensive sort of sex-toy (not a blow-up-doll we concluded!) called Alphie. Alphie messes up a relationship, and doesn¹t come out unscathed.
With mostly mechanical music, from the French instrument builder/musician/composer, Pierre Bastien. Bastien is also known for his work for the Rephlex label, and Geerlings is known because he is an inspired Rotterdams theatre writer, who¹s worked in the past with Paul De Jong (The Books).
Text: Erik-Ward Geerlings. Muziek: Pierre Bastien. Directeur en mixage: Lukas Simonis. Stem: Nanette Edens.
17 Jul 2021
Alles met mate en zelfs dat (Dutch/German/Ethiopian), 2008
A coming-of-age drama, featuring a killer in reflective moments of times future and past, starting abruptly at the moment of pulling the trigger, replete with harrowing visions and a journey into the unknown. On one of his last assignments – to assassinate the stubborn last independent record company owner in Switzerland, who’s annoying the Russian download-mafia – the killer gets thrown into another dimension of awareness, something to do with sound….
Productie, scenario & compositie: Jeroen Visser. Stemmen: Jaap Achterberg, Sybille Aeberili, Malaku Belay, Ato Gashaw, Ato Rifle, Jos Klay, Samuel Streiff.
16 Jul 2021
Triple Hond Kwa Vector Gebruik (Dutch), 2007
Wetenschap kan lang duren. Geduld is de methode van de onzorgvuldigen. En dat dan drie maal. Een quasi-wetenschappelijke studie annex hoorspel/musical over de onmacht van de Mensch te communiceren en de tijd die dat in beslag neemt, op subtiele wijze, als was het een cricket-match, in den engelschen taal becommentarieert door Vivian Cook.
Text, idee en uitvoering: Coolhaven. Mixage: Lukas Simonis.
16 Jul 2021
No Man's Land (English), 2011
No Man's Land deals with the Dust Bowl period in the USA, particularly with the people who lived and stayed in the Oklahoma Panhandle. The radio play portrays the story of Hazel Lucas, who migrated to Boise City in Cimarron County as a child and lived through the worst of the hard times during this ecological and economical disaster. No Man's Land.
Production, mixing, composition: Robert van Heumen. Voice: Marilyn Ivy.
15 Jul 2021
Bruilofslied/Wedding Song (English), 2008
Orpheus wakes up in a shop doorway in Delfshaven... ‘Bruiloftslied’ traces his psychological, physical and emotional journey through the streets of Rotterdam on his first day alone on earth, having lost his love Eurydice to the underworld.
Text & Narration: Boz Temple-Morris. Music: Recording SoundConcept; Construction. Editing & Production: Alladair McGregor, Howard Jacques, Melanie Clifford. Cast: Stephie Buttrich, Samuel Collings.
15 Jul 2021
Croatan N17 (English), 2015
An audio-play about interdimensional dropouts, alien refugees and going cosmic. Listen and hear. G Lucas Crane is a sound artist and sound performer working in the medium of analogue tape and obscured and recovered memory in the digital age. Angela Moor is an artist working in sound and video with the focus on the mythical and mystical.
15 Jul 2021
Dr. Naut (English), 2007
“Hello, my name is Dr. Naut...but please call me Kosmo. I am a doctor of Science and after Oxford, I got involved in an intensive study discovering structural tendencies within micro-organisms, for which I had to travel into the outer orbits of our solar system. Light-years away from anything familiar. An accident happened, I was sent back to Earth and now I am blind.”
The music of Blatnova summons a magical biotope in which 1950s optimism, functionalism, UFO’s, and 1960s design, scifi and ecology peacefully coexist. This is a complete recipe, alchemical cookery. During the listening experience you see that in the boxes of your music installation there’s a little door. You step through it and you end up in a new cosmos.
Direction, sound design, editing: Jobina Tinnemans.
15 Jul 2021
Garden Sensibilities (English), 2012
On the occasion of the 1st Poetry International in June 2010, the Danish poet Ursula Andkjaer Olsen joined the WORM crew to make this radiophonic work. The piece is filled with paving and garden furniture and is a provider for all your needs in and around the garden.
Text: Ursula Andkjaer Olsen. Composers: Bakker/Simonis. Voice: Ursula Andkjaer Olsen. Bass clarinet, electronics: Henk Bakker. Voice, harp: Yuko Uesy. Cello: Nina Hitz. Guitar, voice: Lukas Simonis.
15 Jul 2021
Hispaniola (English), 2008
A radio play for flute composed by Christopher Williams in collaboration with Barbara Held, ‘Hispaniola’ is a work in four acts somewhere between an experimental Hörspiel and an electroacoustic composition. Its title is borrowed from the protagonist ship of the mythical adventure novel Treasure Island, which functions as a source of material, a metaphorical axis, and an inspiration for the project as a whole.
Recorded by Lukas Simonis and Ferran Fages. Mixed by Lukas Simonis and Christopher Williams. Voices: Justin Bennett (Dr. Livesey), Amy Lucas and Terry Savage (the Protestant Boys), Barbara Held and Christopher Williams (Lillibullero and Overtures from Richmond). Including fragments from Mercury Theatre’s 1938 radio adaptation Treasure Island, directed by Orson Welles; fragments from the 1934 film adaptation of Treasure Island (featuring Jackie Cooper and Wallace Beery), directed by Victor Fleming. Texts based in part on Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island (first publication 1886).
15 Jul 2021
Van Diemens landt 1642 (English/Dutch), 2010
The British visual artist and electronic musician Phoebe Jeebe and the Australian soundscape artist Jonathan Bailey Cooke worked during the summer of 2009 in the WORM Studio on this radiophonic composition, a musical adaptation of the report by Dutch adventurer Abel Tasman on his discovery of the unknown south.
Written and produced by Jeebe & Cooke.
15 Jul 2021
Newyork Revolution Plan (Chinese/English), 2014
‘Newyork Revolution Plan/ Newyork Counterrevolution Plan ’is a new radiophonic work of Chinese writer and sound artist Yan Yun. Not only known for his poetry but also for his experimental music and sound works. His poems rely mostly on journalistic notions of the political situation in his country. He considers his poems as political poems, because poetry in itself is a political act, according to Yan Yun. The piece was made and played live for the 2nd Poetry International Studio, but the recording is made at studio Loos Den Haag and mixed at WORM studio.
23 Apr 2021
Wet dreams of the Pope (English), 2007
The story is about a hypocritical Pope, who a hypocritical mass of humanity are willing to forgive for his annoying political gestures to the far right and to spiritual oppression, his spiritually kicking liberation theologists where it hurts most, and his beatifying and lionizing the most oppressive kingpins of Catholicism. It also deals with the political intrigues surrounding the mysterious death of the whistleblowing and house cleaning John Paul I to be replaced by II, who turned a blind eye to Opus Dei, to the Vatican bank scandals and other spiritual hypocrisies and became a champ of the good old boy network.
Text: Black Sifichi, Bart Plantenga. Direction, sound design, editing: Lukas Simonis. Voices: Black Sifichi (Narrator), Roma Napoli (Velena), Yosel (The Pope), Bart Plantenga (Producer), Gondolier & Marcinckus (DJ Pausa, Lukas Simonis).
20 Apr 2021
The Tabacconist (English), 2015
A radiophonic opera about smoking tobacco. The Tobacconists are Scott Foust (Idea Fire Company/Swill Radio), Mike Popovich, and Frans de Waard (Kapotte Muziek/Korm Plastics). But I’m not sure if Mike is on this radio gem. Produced and played by the lot.
19 Apr 2021
De goede Buurman (Dutch), 2013
A documentary radio play inspired by ‘Morosophism in theory and practice’. Musician and furniture-maker Hansko Visser is searching for the grave of a former neighbour—“If your neighbour is building time machines, one never knows when will he be buried…”—and what eventually amounts to the search for the neighbour in himself, and the search for a musical instrument that might make the world a better place, and its people happier…
With a poem by William Carlos Williams, the voice of Klaske Oenema, the right bicycle wheel and the Symphony Of The New World by Antonin Dvorak. In Memory of neighbour Jaros.
Director, sound design, editing: Hansko Visser.
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